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The industry is facing a crunch and the fund gap over the next five years alone would be as high as $70 billion.The move of cutting property prices by 20% following RBI’s increase in repo has come in as a shock and will hit both developers and home buyers given the higher cost of funding, [...] 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 »
Till Monday evening, as many as 210 complaints were still pending and only 156 had been closed. The maximum number of complaints came from the western suburbs. Of the 189 complaints registered from there, 121 are pending. The BMC has not fined a single contractor this year for not attending to potholes. In the western [...] Continue Reading »
About 150 people visited the headquarters when the master plan was displayed on the first day on July 22. On Monday, the visitors’ number increased to 250. The metropolitan authority had invited objections and suggestions from citizens on the draft master plan for Hyderabad Metropolitan Region a couple of days ago. The draft master plan [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) consumer activists and stakeholders to oppose fuel surcharge in bills. The commission had invited public opinion on fuel adjustment cost (FAC) formula. Under this, any variation in fuel and gas prices in the market will be passed on to the consumers as fuel surcharge in their energy bills. The hearing [...] Continue Reading »
BMC Mumbai sinks Rs 64 Lakh in renovation of a half-acre park in Sion Mumbai. The shoddy work has already left much of the facilities unusable. Local corporator Upendra Doshi billed the BMC Rs 9.52 lakh for carpeting H B Shivdasani Udyan, the public park opposite SIES College, Sion (West), with red earth, revealed an [...] Continue Reading »
A safety audit conducted by the Fire and Rescue Services department in 2009 found that 90% of the buildings on Ranganathan Street in T Nagar had violated building norms, including fire safety rules. The department is unable to issue fire licences because of the lack of fire and safety measures.None of the 38 buildings has [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Mohali have welcomed the move of minimum fine for dumping domestic garbage in residential areas. Residents dumping household garbage at an empty plot near their residences would be fixed at Rs 500 by stating that by imposing a fine on residents dumping domestic rubbish, the local body would ensure that most residents do [...] Continue Reading »
