Infrastructure
At a recently-held review meeting with regard to the various potential initiatives to be undertaken by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu stressed on the need for DDA to address the problem of congestion on Delhi roads. At the review meeting, a series of ambitious projects were drawn up for [...] Continue Reading »
During the inauguration of the connecting bridge between Sampige Metro station and Mantri Square Mall on Wednesday, BMRCL Managing Director Pradeep Singh Kharola said that this station is one of the most successful examples of Public Private Partnership (PPP) model and it would be replicated in other stations as well in the Namma Metro Phase [...] Continue Reading »
While the NSSo’s latest report shows that most Indians now live in pucca houses and have electricity connection, it also paints a bleak picture of sanitation and hygiene conditions in the rural areas. Nearly two-third of dwelling units in villages lack a bathroom and less than half have drinking water facility on the premise. The [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is bent on amending its building rules to regularize minor deviations by the middle class. The civic body plans to amend its rules in case of violations like additional constructions or renovations to the houses. The move comes in spite of a Calcutta high court order restricting KMC from legalizing unauthorized [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana Cabinet today had decided to allow mixed land use of industrial plots and sheds in industrial estates in existence in the state as on the 1st of November 1966, the day the state came into existence. Industrial estates to be additionally covered under this are those of Hisar, Gurgaon, Ambala City, Barwala (Hisar), [...] Continue Reading »
Jammu and Kashmir has a reason to rejoice now as Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced a package of Rs 8,000 crore for building of roads in Jammu and Kashmir. Modi also announced a waiver of Rs 60 crore in interest owed by the state government to the Food Corporation of India (FCI). This militant affected [...] Continue Reading »
In an earlier-this-month report released by the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&G), the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government was criticized for spending hundreds of crores on piecemeal development in illegal colonies in Delhi. In its report for FY 2012-13, the CAG asserted that, up to March 2013, the Delhi government spent a whopping amount of Rs [...] Continue Reading »
At a meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday, the Union Urban Development Ministry and Delhi government decided to work out an action plan, with new guidelines, for the regularization of all illegal colonies in the city. The task will be accomplished over the next few months, ahead of the assembly polls in Delhi. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Centre has given nod to the construction of a bridge on the Yamuna River and it will connect Faridabad with Noida, said Krishan Pal Gurjar, Union Minister of State for Roads, Transport and Shipping. Union Minister for Surface Transport Nitin Gadkari will lay the foundation stone of the Rs 200-crore project at Manjhawali village [...] Continue Reading »
Greater Gurgaon, or Sohna Road, is registering a boom in the real estate market with supply keeping pace with demand. Experts even say the area is set to emerge as the next axis for residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial development in Gurgaon. It is a good example of mixed-use development with great scope for further [...] Continue Reading »
