Municipality
The Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) had directed the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to clear Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) applications by September and Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS) files by July-end. The maximum number of pending applications is in L B Nagar and Kukatpally municipal circles where scrutiny was not done by the town [...] Continue Reading »
Houses for the middle-income group will have a wall-to-wall carpet area of up to 816 square feet, a preferred standard measurement approved by the Union ministry of housing. If one calculates the additional super built-up area, it would be 1,101 square feet.The municipal corporation or urban development authorities deduct 40% from a land owner for [...] Continue Reading »
In Ahmedabad, you cannot have any commercial activity near a road up to nine metres wide. A road that is between nine and 12 metres wide would allow mixed land use while an 18 metre wide road would allow only commercial activity. When the new General Development Control Regulations (GDCR) norms came into effect, the [...] Continue Reading »
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation ( PCMC) has made water recycling facility mandatory for housing schemes.The state government had issued a government resolution (GR) on August 7, 2010, approving the civic body’s proposal to make it mandatory for builders to provide water recycling facility on schemes measuring 4,000 sq.m or 1 acre. Municipal commissioner Ashish [...] Continue Reading »
The total population of Pimpri Chinchwad township is estimated to be around 17 lakh and the area falling within the municipal limits is 175 sq km. Around 500 to 600 tonne garbage is generated daily and dumped at the garbage depot at Moshi. For the last two years, non-governmental organisation (NGO) SWaCH has been collecting [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has banned dumping of garbage and sewage water in the open under Section 292 (1) of Haryana Municipal Corporation Act-1994. People who do not have access to the HUDA sewerage systems, can get their sewage and garbage lifted through the tankers listed with the corporation. The tanker owner wanting [...] Continue Reading »
In the early days, buildings were sold by carpet areas. In the 1960s, buildings began to be sold by built-up area (BUA), which includes walls and some passages, but excludes lifts, staircases, common passages, flowerbeds and other non-living spaces. The built-up area counted in the floor space index (FSI) was between 10% and 20% more [...] Continue Reading »
A polythene bag that can easily fly in the air is now illegal – this is how environment ministry officials define polythene below 40 microns for the public to understand. Bags below this measure are banned. Gujarat Pollution Control Board has to prepare an annual report on implementation of the ban and send it to [...] Continue Reading »
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit said an earthquake can cause unprecedented damage to Delhi and hence it was essential to concentrate on preparedness. Delhi has densely populated areas with a large number of unsafe buildings. A sizeable number of unauthorized colonies and urban slums compound vulnerability in the city. “There is a need to ensure strict [...] Continue Reading »
Despite strict regulations groundwater levels in the city’s south and southwest districts has declined. The Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) take up the matter with Delhi chief secretary P K Tripathi who in turn directed Delhi Jal Board to probe groundwater decline. In 2010-11 only about 350 permissions were granted for borewells by the Delhi [...] Continue Reading »
