Infrastructure
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 »
NASHIK: Municipal commissioner Radhakrishna Game has directed the property tax department to proceed to issue permits against 439 property tax defaulters, who have exceptional dues of higher than Rs 50,000. The directions were provided by the Game through an up-to-date report meeting endured with the department concerned. Executives of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) [...] 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 »
CHANDIGARH: As 84 units of both aspects of the Industrial Area in Chandigarh have arrears deserving Rs 32.18 lakh of commercial property tax, Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) will be offering a program in the monthly prevailing house meeting to waive-off their interest money. Considering this is the most primary financial judgment associated with such [...] 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 »
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 »
Punjab government extends the deadline to pay property tax by three months CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Thursday declared a three-month continuation in the deadline proclaimed to pay the outstanding house tax or property tax outwardly without any penalty. In a press report, local bodies minister Brahm Mohindra stated that the government had resolved to partly exclude a class of [...] 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 »
