Colonies
Residents of various labour colonies in Delhi will be given ownership rights as planned by the government, ahead of Assembly elections. The proposal will be forwarded to Delhi cabinet for approval. Around 4,844 houses of four colonies named Nehru Nagar, Giri nagar, Moti Nagar and Vishwakarma, will be made freehold. AK Walia, labour department minister [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Adarshnagar in Visakhapatnam are demanding for a well-developed police station in the region, development of parks and handing over of burial ground site by the Department of Animal Husbandry to local people. The region comprising Adarshanagar and Arilova has a population of over a lakh and there is great need of a [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi is making more and more space for people to live in by developing vertically, perhaps has not been considering the need for parking, walking and driving space. With multiple members staying in the same house and owning multiple vehicles is causing vehicular congestion on the colony roads. The colony roads are eternally clogged with [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Government has approved the sale and purchase of 320 unauthorised colonies. These lands were regularised earlier this month and will be on sale in a day or two. This decision was taken in a meeting by the Task Force organised to address issues relating to the unauthorised colonies. Chief Minister Shiela Dixit said [...] Continue Reading »
Residents are facing inconvenience due to unmanned gates blocking access to colonies and commuters are forced to take diversion since the gates are locked during the night and often during the day. Azhar Jamal, a resident, said that the unmanned gates do not have security personnel and a request has been sent to the Resident [...] Continue Reading »
Finally the Delhi government is set to grant recognition to the unauthorized colonies. The government has plans to regularize 624 unauthorised colonies out of 1,639 such settlements in the first phase of regularization The first phase is likely to be completed soon as all concerned agencies including ASI, Forest Department, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) , [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana Urban Development Authority which has given contract to private contractors on sanitation work has ended in March 2012. Now as the civic body is yet to renew the contracts, the sectors have to suffer till the renewal. The residents of these sectors have started protesting as most of the localities are yet to [...] Continue Reading »
Developers have to keep a pace over maintenance of colonies in Gurgaon. After a series of complaints from the resident welfare associations over maintenance, Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has threatened the local developers to take care of the colonies. If not done, then the civic body has alleged it will take away their maintenance [...] Continue Reading »
According to the reports of Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC), around one lakh property owners are not eligible to pay property tax. The reason being they have bought properties, got approvals and have agreements but did not register them. It is the previous owners in place of defaulters who get property tax notices from the civic [...] Continue Reading »
One of India’s leading newspapers “The Hindu” recently published a feature about Commonfloor.com. The story spoke about the efforts and vision of Lalit Mangal, Sumit Jain and Vikas Malpani, the founders of Commonfloor which was started in 2007. Hindu covered Commonfloor as: “a tool to empower the committee and the owners for better and transparent [...] Continue Reading »
