economically weaker sections
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government is planning to give up the process of verification of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards for allotment of plots and houses under the EWS quota. The government had a practise of verification of genuineness of the BPL cards while allotting plots/flats reserved for the people belonging to the Economically Weaker [...] Continue Reading »
New-Delhi- In order to boost the small and affordable housing units, the developers apex body CREDAI has demanded for an inclusive housing policy to the Finance Minister. They have further asked the Finance Minister to initiate the tax incentives which can make the realty sector a new growth of the Indian economy. CREDAI which presented [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP’s plan of shifting the EWS slums on five acres of land each in Sarjapur and Iblur near Chandapura till their houses get constructed was opposed by the local MLAs and the public. The builder who has got the tender to construct a mall and housing complex for the original slum-dwellers is set to [...] Continue Reading »
To support housing for the poor, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has been planning to raise the cap on the interest subsidy scheme from the present Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. The scheme of Interest Subsidy for Housing the Urban Poor was started in the late 2008 in order to [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) started eviction drive at Ejipura quarters near the National Games Village in Koramangala. The slum dwellers will be relocated temporarily at Iggalur in Anekal taluk till the time the construction is completed. The BBMP carried out the drive and demolished 32 shanties. Later, each of the displaced families was given [...] Continue Reading »
The government has decided to raise the amount on annual income for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Lower Income Groups (LIG) to get the benefits of housing scheme. The income declared for EWS have been raised to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 60,000 and for LIG it has been raised to Rs 2 lakhs as [...] Continue Reading »
Incentives like free land allocation and public-private partnerships models have been sought by the realtors in order to increase affordable housing stocks for the economically weaker sections. With the increased shortage of housing for the poor sections of the society, the realtors have come up with this method and demand active government participation which can lead to a way to [...] Continue Reading »
10,000 one-room tenements constructed for the economically weaker sections under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in Chandigarh are lying unused and are suffering from a total lack of maintenance. The flats were constructed almost a year back. However, these could not be allotted to the beneficiaries due to the incomplete infrastructure of the [...] Continue Reading »
Karnataka unit of Credai (Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India) aims to see the state housing surplus by 2020. Officials state that the developers’ body will dwell upon the issue in Statecon 2012, which will be hosted in Mangalore on August 25. The official source states that Credai wants to provide people in [...] Continue Reading »
The Karnataka High Court has asked the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to file an affidavit on the plan of action concerning the reconstruction of 1,640 flats for economically weaker sections (EWS) at Ejipura after a public interest litigation petition filed by allottees of flats. The petition stated that the original allottees of the flats [...] Continue Reading »
