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Due to opposition from locals, the Pune Municipal Corporation‘s (PMC) efforts to decentralise garbage processing has halted with the state and civic body failing to acquire land to set up the processing units. A civic official said, the civic body had forwarded 17 land acquisition proposals to the district collector and some were finalised by the state [...] Continue Reading »
A new committee has been formed by the government to examine whether the home ministry’s resident ID card (RIC) scheme can be used to deliver financial services, rural employment, public distribution system and health insurance. For the public distribution and direct cash transfers, the government has planned to use the Aadhaar platform of the Unique [...] Continue Reading »
Due to unscheduled and lengthy power cuts and the government’s decision to increase power tariff rates have angered the residents in Noida, as they will be staging a protest outside the power department office on June 28. NP Singh, acting president, Federation of Noida Residents’ Welfare Association (Fonrwa) said due to prolonged and frequent power [...] Continue Reading »
The land disputes in the prime area of Banjara Hills remain unresolved from decades, between government and private parties that claim to be its owners. Up to 140 acres of vacant land in different parts of Banjara Hills worth as much as 3,000 crores is under litigation presently. Claimants of these properties are descendents of [...] Continue Reading »
Due to increasing housing requirements in cities and towns, the government is expected to create rental houses in order to meet the needs of people who cannot afford to buy houses. Currently the housing shortage is at around 27 million units and at least 50% is ascribed to people who cannot manage to own houses. [...] Continue Reading »
As read earlier about the protest staged by Town Municipality Pourakarmika Union has made government realize the worth of BBMP municipal workers. In such a huge city like Bangalore there is lot of garbage left unattended since years with the regular work of pourakarmikas. Now that the Pourakarmika Union has called off for a hunger [...] Continue Reading »
The Asilmetta flyover at Vishakapatnam which is under construction will be even more delayed! The flyover project completion can be expected by August. After which there are predictions of problems to be faced with the commence of rainy season. Now that the government has released funds, all the pending JNNURM projects are also expected to [...] Continue Reading »
A skyscarper coming up soon at Kochi has been asked to either pause the construction or change the plan. The skyscraper project by Yashoram Infra Developers Private Limited has therefore informed the Kerala High Court that this project in no ways would affect the coastal ecosystems or the backwater system. The Sky city project had [...] Continue Reading »
The Indian real estate industry recently was known for its black money transactions! Now, the real estate experts and the government agencies fear for the flow of terror funds in the industry. A review assessment revealed that the track of highest component of undisclosed money was from the real estate income tax department. Other than [...] Continue Reading »
The Assam Real Estate & Infrastructure Developers’ Association (AREIDA) has put a proposal to the government to reconsider the Circle rate. The main agenda behind the reconsideration of circle rates is to make it appeal reasonable and rational to the citizens of the city. The AREIDA president say that they have no objection to levy [...] Continue Reading »
