economically weaker sections
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has revealed in a recent announcement that it has plans underway to construct 10,000 houses for economically weaker sections (EWS) and Low Income Group (LIG) categories in the city, after the first draw. Similar to the other bids for housing in the city, the 10,000 housing units for EWS and LIG [...] Continue Reading »
According to Assocham, the affordable housing sector should be granted ‘infrastructure status’ because the sector has the potential to invigorate the economy. Seeking ‘infrastructure status’ for the affordable housing sector, Assocham has put forth the opinion that the sector has the capacity to generate a ‘multiplier effect,’ both in terms of creation of employment and [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate consultant KJ Singh said, “The mess that the real estate sector is in today will become worse if FSI is increased as the builder lobby has been asking for a higher FSI.” On a certain plot FSI is the total covered area on all floors of all buildings divided by the area of [...] Continue Reading »
To stop the increasing slums in national capital and to replace them with the affordable housing for those who belong to weaker section is a major promise made by all political parties for the coming elections. Even after the completion of this project, houses are not allotted to their rightful owners. With the model code [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is planning to undertake a complete makeover of its flats, adopting snazzy, contemporary designs for its latest batch of energy-efficient ‘green’ flats which are to come up in the next two years. With this, the authority would be doing away with its 50-year-old practice of enforcing the same bare-minimum, uniform [...] Continue Reading »
Delhiites get a chance to own their dream house at cheaper rates as Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will soon start the construction of 30,000 cheaper flats. Most of the flats will be constructed in Narela and the rest in Rohini. Under this intended project, DDA will build 25,000 LIG (Lower Income Group) flats and rest [...] Continue Reading »
Gandhinagar: New housing policy has been drafted by the Gujarat government and is expected to be announced in a month’s time. According to sources, the government will simultaneously announce two sub-policies on slum rehabilitation and affordable housing in the cities. The state government has been planning to develop 22 lakh houses in the urban areas [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon- With property prices increasing rapidly in Gurgaon, buying a property in the city has become extremely difficult for buyers of low-income group (LIG). Gurgaon has emerged as a favourite destination of many property investors and real estate developers. In order to support developers in building more and more affordable housing units, the government of [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- Owing to delay in initiating projects, prices of properties in India have shot up by 40 percent, reports Economic Survey 2013. Before the construction activity of a project has to be started, the builder of the project has to complete 34 procedures to get clearances which would take at least six months time [...] Continue Reading »
Lucknow- Uttar Pradesh government has planned to revise housing policy in favour of developers for reserving certain percentage of units for economically weaker sections (EWS) of the society in their housing projects on above 3,000 square metres of land. The policy will be made applicable to both group housing and plot development projects. According to [...] Continue Reading »
