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A hike of around 20% to 50% is proposed in the circle rates for property registration in Delhi. The black component in transactions may reduce to nil as circle rate and market rate may become equal in areas like unauthorized regularized colonies and new settlements in Narela and Bawana. The Lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung is not [...] Continue Reading »
The first meeting on roads for revising the draft of the city’s development plan (DP) was held and the roads in the proposed DB were discussed. 13 committees comprising officials have been formed to conduct the basic survey of the draft DP. 10 committees have already submitted their basic survey reports. The remaining reports are [...] Continue Reading »
Over 3,000 sq km environmentally fragile land in Kerala’s Western Ghats region has been exempted by Environment Ministry from the category of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) demarcated by a high-level central government panel. Earlier, High Level Working Group on Western Ghats headed by K Kasturirangan had recommended that 13,108 sq km should be declared as [...] Continue Reading »
Kochi- The credit for completion of the project Sree Bhadra Apartment in Tripunithura goes to its residents, as the builder, Maruti Homes, had abandoned the construction work in the middle, which was later completed by the residents. The apartment structure was only built when the builder stopped the work, in 2007-08, citing the reason of [...] Continue Reading »
A high-level coordination committee of the Congress party asked the Oommen Chandy government in Kerala to revise existing laws and bring in suitable new laws to protect the agricultural lands from getting used for constructions in the state. Till now, around seven lakh hectares of total nine lakh hectares of farm land have been either [...] Continue Reading »
A Planning Commission committee has recommended the entry of private sector in the delivery of public services in an attempt to improve civic amenities. This includes water and sewage treatment. A majority of cities have poor water supply system due to leakages and poor distribution system. Only half of the garbage gets disposed of and [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC has made an attempt for the betterment of senior citizens, by framing a special policy which will be executed from October 1, observed as International Day for Senior Citizens. A new committee for the welfare of senior citizens will be formed. The Federation of Senior Citizens Organisations, Maharashtra (FESCOM) has presented a proposal [...] Continue Reading »
A new committee has been formed by the government to examine whether the home ministry’s resident ID card (RIC) scheme can be used to deliver financial services, rural employment, public distribution system and health insurance. For the public distribution and direct cash transfers, the government has planned to use the Aadhaar platform of the Unique [...] Continue Reading »
Due to increasing housing requirements in cities and towns, the government is expected to create rental houses in order to meet the needs of people who cannot afford to buy houses. Currently the housing shortage is at around 27 million units and at least 50% is ascribed to people who cannot manage to own houses. [...] Continue Reading »
The citizens of Hyderabad city wake up! The fuel stations in the city will be closed on April 23rd in response to the orders passed by Federation of All India Petroleum Traders (FAIPT). Around 3,000 fuel stations in the city have therefore agreed to follow guidelines of FAIPT. On whole, nearly 44,000 fuel stations country [...] Continue Reading »
