economically weaker sections
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the three municipal corporations to formulate an action plan and offer suggestions for dealing with unauthorised constructions, especially buildings identified as illegal, in consultation with other agencies dealing with urban development and water and power supply. The commissioners of the corporations – East, South and North – appeared [...] Continue Reading »
Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday announced construction of one-lakh houses for economically weaker sections (EWS) at affordable prices. These houses would be ready by October, 2016. Besides, he has also issued directions to concerned departments to identify land in cities and towns at the earliest to complete this mega welfare project [...] Continue Reading »
Chief Minister of Puducherry (Popularly known as Pondicherry) N Rangasamy discussed in the assembly today the contours of the ‘’housing for economically weaker sections in his union territory (U.T). He declared that under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘ Jandhan Yojana‘ scheme, the Puducherry Government has planned to cover over three lakh homes. The [...] Continue Reading »
There seems to be no place for the poor in the Millennium City in Gurgaon though they have played an important role in its development. Apparently the authorities are trying to lessen the number of slums and provide affordable housing to the people from the economically weaker sections (EWS) of the society by continuously making [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Development Authority’s housing scheme scheduled to start on September 1 has very few newly constructed two and three-bedroom flats on offer. The DDA admits that its focus is not on building affordable houses for the middle class anymore. But it promises its ambitious ‘land pooling policy’ would more than make up for this [...] Continue Reading »
KPMG released a report at a real estate-banking conclave organized by the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) in Mumbai on Wednesday. It came up with some data which might work as an eye opener to the current government. A fifth of the urban and rural households have very limited access to housing facilities, potable [...] Continue Reading »
In sync with one of the key policy initiatives of the Modi government to provide housing to the urban poor, the government is planning to expand the net of affordable housing to include more people under the various housing projects targeted at economically weaker sections (EWS) and lower income group (LIG). The proposal drafted by [...] Continue Reading »
The state governments are in a spree to regularise their property and land acquisition acts. Despite Congress legislators picking holes in the Punjab Apartment and Property Regularisation (Amendment) Bill, 2014, it was given the go-ahead in the assembly on Tuesday. It was pointed out that while the colonizer and builder will be held responsible for [...] Continue Reading »
The fate of the dream project of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav of providing houses to weaker sections of the society hangs in balance due to escalated cost of building material. The authorities of Kanpur Development Authority (KDA) had floated tenders for the construction of houses twice but due to old rates, contractors refused to make [...] Continue Reading »
The BJP councillors in the city last Monday went on alleging the Ghaziabad Development Authority. The councillors said that the Ghaziabad Development Authority have allotted housing units that are reserved for the economically weaker sections of the society to other people. A case of gross violation has been laid on the procedure by the UP [...] Continue Reading »
