Cities
The deadline for the Navi Mumbai Metro project has been extended by the implementing body, Cidco. While the original deadline for the completion of the first phase of the ambitious 23.4-km Belapur CBD to Khandeshwar Metro project in Navi Mumbai was 2014, the Metro is now likely to become operational only by 2017. The first [...] Continue Reading »
On Saturday, Maharashtra’s Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat handed over the letter of land transfer – for setting up an independent sub-centre of Pune University – to V B Gaikwad, Pune University’s officiating vice-chancellor. The land for the sub-centre is located at Shivnai in Dindori. Pune University had sanctioned an amount of Rs 5.50 crore for [...] Continue Reading »
The pipeline shifting work on the SA Road has been delayed by the water authority (KWA); with the result that the work schedule will now have to be changed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). With regard to the delay on pipeline shifting work, officials with Kochi Metro have revealed that the progress of [...] Continue Reading »
In a demolition drive carried out on Friday, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) demolished three illegal buildings in Katraj. The buildings razed by PMC were spread over an area of approximately 8,500 sq ft. The latest demolition drive by PMC comes after an anti-encroachment action which the civic administration initiated at the beginning of this fiscal [...] Continue Reading »
The Public Works Department (PWD) said in a Sunday statement that the process of allocation of Government houses in Delhi will be carried out online. According to the statement released by the PWD about the online allotment move, all the residential accommodations in the Delhi government pool will be allotted via an online automated system [...] Continue Reading »
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed in a recent report sent to Lieutenant Governor’s office that the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government did not provide the much-claimed basic services in 895 unauthorized colonies in Delhi before legalizing them. Though the provision of basic facilities to illegal colonies in the capital was one of the [...] Continue Reading »
In a last-week order to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that the Authority should allot land to each of the municipal bodies in places where there is potential for installation of facilities for conversion of debris into building material. In the instructions released to DDA on Friday, Naidu said that [...] Continue Reading »
An inquiry has been ordered into the alleged multi-crore building fraud by Adel Landmarks in Gurgaon. The order for the probe into the fraud was given recently by TC Gupta – Haryana’s Principal Secretary, Town and Country Planning. The probe order by Gupta has come close on the heels of a recent Times of India [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent ruling, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said that no land or house/apartment will be allotted in Delhi in the future if the structures do not have rainwater-harvesting systems in place. Making the stipulation of rainwater-harvesting system mandatory for allotment of land or house/apartment in Delhi, an NGT bench headed by Chairperson [...] Continue Reading »
A new group housing project has recently been launched by North India-based realty promoter CHD Developers in Sector 71, Sohna Road, Gurgaon. The project – targeting the upper mid-segment income group – is called ‘Vann’ Sprawling over a total land area of 10.54 acres, the Vann group housing project will offer nearly 600 apartments and [...] Continue Reading »
