Government land
Around four of the tahsildars who had served in Devanahalli on the outskirts of Bangalore from the year 2007 have been booked by the Karnataka Lok Ayukta police for involving in violations regarding the grabbing of government land in the region where land prices have been sky rocketing since a new Bangalore International Airport was [...] Continue Reading »
The high court on Tuesday has asked the government to come out with a timeline for recovering 1.1 million acres of government land in and around Bangalore and across the state. After disapproving the pace at which the government is moving to reclaim its lands, a division bench headed by Chief Justice D H Waghela [...] Continue Reading »
A bench of the Bombay high court, while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed four years ago by a group of residents from Hiranandani Estate, Thane, said If residents are complaining of illegal structures mushrooming across the city , The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) or the Thane collector cannot ‘throw its hands up’. To [...] Continue Reading »
Kochi- The Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) is likely to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in order to resolve their differences of opinion and thus facilitate the construction of the Metro in the city. Meanwhile, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is considering plans to finalise [...] Continue Reading »
Bhubaneswar- Odisha developers are suspicious with the state government’s plan of developing one lakh affordable houses in 10 years. The government had initiated ‘scheme for affordable urban housing in Odisha-2012′ which directs developers to reserve 15 percent built-up space for developing residential units for economically weaker section (EWS) and lower income group (LIG). But the [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi- The regularisation of 532 colonies, proposed by the Urban Development department for regularisation in September, 2012, is likely to move a step further with Delhi Government’s Urban Development department asking for the land status report. The urban development department had earlier dealt with cases of such illegal colonies, wherein colonies were built on private [...] Continue Reading »
The former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ashok Chavan, on Saturday passed the blame to Union Science and Technology Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, for granting permission to the Adarsh housing society. Mr. Chavan said that Mr. Deshmukh, the then Chief Minister, had allotted the government land, regardless of the land valuation. He also blamed Finance Department suspecting [...] Continue Reading »
Gowri Shankar Gupta, a prominent realtor, has been arrested on 22nd June in connection with a criminal case filed by construction giant DLF. He was called for questioning and subsequently arrested, in accordance to a pending case of cheating Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). Soon after his arrest, the accused complained of chest pain and [...] Continue Reading »
Around 40 acres of government land which stood illegal were being razed recently by Noida Authority. This was done to teach a lesson to encroachers who has been operating a commercial space on a residential plot. The properties razed were worth Rs 1000 crore situated in Sector 67. Come February 24 and the authority has [...] Continue Reading »
The slum dwellers in Karnataka have a reason to be happy! The state cabinet have agreed to give land deed titles to the slum dwellers. The motive is to make it a slum free state and to provide basic level infrastructure to the residents. There are in total of 40 lakh population in slum areas [...] Continue Reading »
