Economically Weaker Section
Haryana government asked realtors for a status report of houses for the economically weaker section and affordable housing categories in Gurgaon. According to Haryana government, Gurgaon’s realty space has provisions for 31,736 flats under EWS and affordable housing categories in Gurgaon. These flats are a part of 208 group housing colonies for which the government [...] Continue Reading »
Widows and transgender may get government backing to own a house in urban areas with a plan proposed to ease the interest burden. At present, only women, SC/ST, minorities and differently able persons get such a preference. Learning from the experiences of Rajiv Rinn Yojna (RRY), an instrument to address the housing needs of the [...] Continue Reading »
Widows and transgender may get government backing to own a house in urban areas with a plan proposed to ease the interest burden. At present, only women, SC/ST, minorities and differently able persons get such a preference. Learning from the experiences of Rajiv Rinn Yojna (RRY), an instrument to address the housing needs of the [...] Continue Reading »
The 2014 to 2015 Budget of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon was finally tabled last Wednesday amidst the existing unrest amongst ward councillors. Of the overall budget, which is around Rs 889 crore, Rs 500 crore has been set aside solely for infrastructural projects like underpasses, flyovers, roads and bridges while Rs 70 crore has [...] Continue Reading »
The government along with the private sector needs to work to increase the supply of low-income houses, and then only the target of providing housing to all by 2022 can be met. The good news is that this would translate into business opportunities of Rs Nine lakh crore for the developers. The advisory firm Deloitte mentioned [...] Continue Reading »
In Ghaziabad, BJP councillors have accused the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) of allotting housing units under the ‘economically weaker section’ (EWS) and ‘lower income group’ (LIG) categories on the basis of fake certificates. The allotment of the houses under the EWS and LIG categories was made by the GDA in 2013 under a special scheme. [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the poor economic conditions, only one mall is coming up in the last three months. The only mall was developed in Pune which is stuck with the second-highest vacancy level in the country at 27.5 percent. Ahmedabad maintains its tag as the graveyard of Indian retail with a vacancy level of 31.6 percent [...] Continue Reading »
In a massive housing programme launched for the economically weaker section (EWS), BPL and other categories, the Haryana Housing Board has launched construction of 50,000 affordable houses for over the next two years. Construction of about 30,000 houses has already started. The total cost of the project is being estimated to be over Rs 2,250 [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has been sitting on more than 5000 flats lying vacant in the city. Residents of Delhi may be waiting for Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to offer new flats, but there are about 5,970 flats lying vacant in the city. These vacant flats are in various categories, including high income group [...] Continue Reading »
Jammu Development Authority’s (JDA) project to construct 425 residential flats in the Gandhi Nagar area of the city had been approved by the Minister for Urban Development, Nawang Rigzin Jora. Accompanied by Housing and Urban Development secretary Satish Nehru and JDA vice-chairman KL Khajuria, the minister visited the site proposed for a group housing colony [...] Continue Reading »
