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The National Green Tribunal slapped a short penalty of Rs 10 crore on a Faridabad builder for violating environmental norms that causing pollution for the city. The penalty was imposed after observing that the “environment is priceless. The green panel ordered the Haryana government and the state pollution control board to ban the project supporter – Smart Housing Pvt [...] Continue Reading »
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to discontinue the water supply of housing societies which have no or non-functional sewage treatment plant in their bases. Recently, activists met officials of Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and registered a complaint about the absence of STPs and non-functional STPs in many housing projects. The activists had [...] Continue Reading »
Unauthorised colonies residents of Delhi will be able to apply for ownership rights starting 16th December 2019, said Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday during the launch of a portal which will define and delineate the boundaries of 1,731 unauthorised colonies here using satellite imagery. The applicants will get the [...] Continue Reading »
BENGALURU: The high court has burned down as unconstitutional the allocation of houses/sites of the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) under two sections of “persons in public life” engraved within the 10 percent discretionary quota. Beneath category A, 25 percent of the discretional quota sites were placed at the conclusion of KHB, to be administered to [...] Continue Reading »
GREATER NOIDA: If fines don’t work, maybe shame will. The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) has started penalizing housing societies that have failed to install waste treatment plants. simply just in case that fails to form builders fall in line, the development agency plans to award ranks to each housing society supported, however, they [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has lost a nearly 20-year-old battle to acquire 11,515 square feet in Mumbai’s Suraj Apartment. A 38-story pencil-like tall building at Breach Candy, in South Mumbai. MHADA had held up claim to the area on the basis of the extra Floor Space Index (FSI) allegedly used by [...] Continue Reading »
With the National Green Tribunal (NGT) having banned construction work in the ecologically sensitive zone within the 10km periphery of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, uncertainty surrounds the affected realty projects in Noida; and realty buyers and investors in the mentioned region are incurring losses on their investments. The NGT’s order to stall construction in the [...] Continue Reading »
The Modi government should take up tough measures to make sure that green technology is being used in matters of construction and realty space according to experts. This is primarily because of the massive and quick urbanisation the country is about to face. According to the CBRE South Asia Chairman and Managing Director Anshuman Magazine, [...] Continue Reading »
As India embraces urbanisation and confidently walks the talk of development, the new government’s next step should be to introduce stringent measures in favour of the use of green technology in the construction and realty space, say experts. CBRE South Asia Chairman and Managing Director, Anshuman Magazine says the construction and property markets are set [...] Continue Reading »
Green buildings are not only helpful in reducing the cost of your maintenance but will also make sure that you enjoy a better lifestyle in the long run. When Nair Manoj Kumar shifted to his new apartment at Ghatkopar in Mumbai, he didn’t know what a green building really was. He didn’t even have to [...] Continue Reading »
