Civic Issues
The Reserve Bank of India has brought about many new directives and guidelines for taking Home Loans. The most controversial decision was the exclusion of stamp duty, registration fees and all other allied charges while calculating the loan to value when taking a home loan. The loan to value is the loan amount taken against [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP has planned to outsource the additional work to clear mess created by the rain. They are planning to outsource the additional resources required during monsoon, as it will be a burden for the BBMP to keep more staff throughout the year. BBMP thinks that this decision will make the cleaning process faster as the [...] Continue Reading »
The Krishna District Building Workers Union and Center of Indian Trade Unions have launched a 48-hour hunger strike demanding the State government to take necessary steps to ease the sand scarcity. The building workers vowed to protest near Sub Collector’s office until the government heeded to their demands. The workers union is protesting against various [...] Continue Reading »
The size of Mumbai is increasing. According to 1991 development plan, the size of the city was 437.71 sq km. While at the latest city plan it is observed that the area of the city has been increased to 457.17 sq km. This increase happened due to the change in definition of the open spaces. [...] Continue Reading »
The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited has disconnected the power supply of nearly 12 apartments in Lucknow. According to Lucknow development authority, those apartments had not got their plans sanctioned and they are illegally constructed. These apartments are in posh residential colonies like Mahanagar and Chinhat without any kind of approval from the development authority. [...] Continue Reading »
The capital value-based regime and contending new property tax rule of Mumbai goes to High Court for proper justice. In a petition the applicant has said to the court that the present tax hike for the properties in Mumbai is unequal and is injustice to certain property-owners in the city. Under the new tax regime, [...] Continue Reading »
As the builders are claiming that the delays in project clearances are raising the cost of projects, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has planned to introduce an automated system to scrutinize building plans. Scrutinizing building plan takes 3 to 5 days when done manually. While computers will run through the soft copy of the plans [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has planned to introduce online application and approval system for building application. With this movement the building permission approvals will just be a click away. An IT firm is providing the software where scrutinizing and approval of building plans will be provided online. Several civic bodies of Mumbai, Pune, Thane, [...] Continue Reading »
The Punjab Department of Local Government has ordered to stop all construction activity in village Kansal. The order came after the order given by the Punjab and Haryana High Court banning fresh construction in the Sukhna catchment area. As Kansal village falls within the Sukhna catchment area and the Nayagaon Notified Area Committee (NAC) is [...] Continue Reading »
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has denied about any irregularities in providing completion certificates to the residential units in Kolkata developed at the Kolkata West International City (KWIC) project. KWIC has constructed an Rs 6,000-crore satellite township on 390 acres of prime land at Salap on NH-6. According to the development proposal 800 row [...] Continue Reading »
