Construction
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 Karnataka Govt plans to revisit existing affordable housing schemes that offer subsidies on home loans and replace them with interest-free home loans. This is part of the government’s mission to support PM Modi’s ‘Housing for All’ scheme. The government plans to build 19 lakh houses in 30 months. If everything goes as per the [...] Continue Reading »
A city must complete 57 projects by 2024 under the Smart City mission. Out of these, only 3-projects have been completed until now by the assigned wing of Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) while work is in progress for 36 others. The LMC is yet to start the leftover 18 projects. Lucknow had a target of [...] Continue Reading »
Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow may have picked up four notches since the last estimation of projects fulfilled under the Smart City mission, but the current rank of 41 among 100 cities in the country is no less of a failure. The failure is a little too said when 3-other cities among the 10 in the [...] Continue Reading »
The Forum for People’s Collective Efforts (FPCE) has started a social media drive requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to not allow dilution of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to defend homebuyers’ interest. FPCE president Abhay Upadhyay stated in his letter to the PM. Under IBC, a promoter can file for insolvency proceedings before the [...] 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 »
DEHRADUN: The Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) has inflicted huge penalties on 15 commercial properties for disrupting the self-assessment procurement while repaying their property tax. A DMC team conveyed a casual investigation to confirm the authenticity of the area square meters sent by 50 leading commercial properties of Dehradun. During the verification procedure, the DMC team found that 15 of [...] Continue Reading »
NEW DELHI: South Delhi Municipal Corporation has begun a unique drive to penalize violators discharging construction and demolition trash in the public throughout the night. On Wednesday, administrators from the civic means grabbed five such insolvents and yielded their circumstances with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee. “Despite clearly considering the situations where somebody can [...] Continue Reading »
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has addressed the central environment ministry to acknowledge a regularization statement registered by Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in Mumbai following the most advanced 2018 announcement that agreements with installations in coastal zone regulation (CRZ) regions. The applications registered by the society against the April 2016 order of annihilation relinquished by the Bombay [...] Continue Reading »
The state govt of Kerala has issued a revised administrative sanction for the completion of basic infrastructure works at Muttathara fishermen residential colony. It is first of its kind large-scale housing scheme executed for fishermen families unsafe to sea erosion in the district. The total amount funded by Kerala Govt for the necessary infrastructure stood [...] Continue Reading »
