Chandigarh
Chandigarh- The rising crime against women in India has led to the improvisation of women’s empowerment as the Haryana Chief Minister declared that about 3.5 lakh affordable houses will be registered for women of beneficiary families. A scheme named Priyadarshani Awaas Yojna was launched in order to provide houses to the poor in rural and [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- The upcoming proposal for the imposition of house tax is expected to create an up stir in the General House on February 28. The already mooted agenda by the nominated Councillors has been opposed by the elected representatives in the past. This proposal was mooted by the nominated councillors after a meeting by the UT Administrator. The meeting was [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- Real estate developers of Haryana seem to be having issues with the Haryana government’s plan of constituting a real estate regulatory authority. They have requested time from the government for expressing their objections and opinions on the Haryana Real Estate (Regulation and Development Bill), 2013. The Haryana Town and Country Planning Department has prepared [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- Haryana’s new housing policy is expected to benefit over 3.5 lakh families below the poverty line (BPL) and the economically weaker sections (EWS) in the state. These sections will also avail assistance from the state government for the construction of houses as per the new housing policy. A state level meeting which was held to address [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government is planning to give up the process of verification of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards for allotment of plots and houses under the EWS quota. The government had a practise of verification of genuineness of the BPL cards while allotting plots/flats reserved for the people belonging to the Economically Weaker [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- Residents of Chandigarh will have to start paying tax for their properties as the Mayor has been forced to impose property tax in the city. The issue of imposition of tax in urban Punjab has been a hot topic in Punjab from past few months. Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil seems [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- The monthly housing meeting of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation held on January 31, 2013 resulted in elaborated calculation to levy house tax in the city. It proposed imposition of tax as follows- a) For owners having house more 125 sq yd or five marlas or 1360 sq ft area are suppose to pay house tax [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- In an effort to save the state animal blackbuck from extinction, the Haryana wildlife department has come up with a unique strategy wherein all village panchayats have been directed to reserve 33% area of common land in each village for the animal. The department has taken this measure as an increasing number of deaths [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- One of the past most scandalous land scams involving Robert Vadra, Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law, has come into light again as IAS officer Ashok Khemka has demanded the state government to make the inquiry report as public rather than the selective leakage. It was stated by the IAS officer that he was nowhere associated with the inquiry committee to [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- The residents of Chandigarh will soon enjoy optimum facilities of two more commercial centres of the likes of Sector 17 in sectors 34 and 43. The proposed sub-city centres are not big as sector 17 of Chandigarh. The plot allotment for the two sub-city centres will initiate in 2013. It is assumed that if this plan go [...] Continue Reading »
