Gurgaon
The senior town planner (STP) has asked the district town planning department and the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) to deploy officials for conducting surveys and submitting reports on the violation of construction norms in buildings having flats for the economically weaker section (EWS) at the earliest. The STP has written to nine developers — [...] Continue Reading »
The procedure for taking action against unauthorized constructions and illegal conversions provided in the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act is very lengthy and the offenders continue with their illegal activities in spite of notices being issued by the enforcement staff concerned. There are certain loopholes in the Act. Many within the corporation, as well as the [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of DLF City Phase 2 are worried about spread of malaria, dengue and other diseases due to dumped garbage during rainy season. According to a resident of Sushant Lok, the problem seems to have no solution. Civic agencies pass the buck. Nobody is ready to address the issue. Residents of the Millennium City have [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had issued notification in June 2009 to acquire 1,417 acres for developing residential sectors — from 58 to 63 —and residential and three commercial sectors. However, in May, 2010, when the state issued the final notification for acquisition, most of these sold lands were “released”. It is alleged that [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon’s water table has been plummeting by 1 to 1.2 metres every year.The administration is compiling a list of all the illegal tubewells and borewells which have already been sealed. These borewells are not registered with the civic authorities and water is being used not for drinking but commercial purposes, thus making them illegal. Civic [...] Continue Reading »
Haryana Government has ensured that out of 65 petitions filed, 55 petitions against land acquisition in some areas of Gurgaon have been withdrawn and the claimants have agreed to put their grievances before a high-powered committee headed by principal secretary, town and country planning, to examine land acquisition for developing residential sectors 58-63 and 65-67 [...] Continue Reading »
Teej, a major festival for married women, was celebrated in a grand way on Tuesday in different societies in Gurgaon. A Teej mela was organized in the Gaushala grounds with a live performance by Shanker Sahni in the evening. Vatika City on Sohna Road, Sector 4 and Sector 15 Part I also celebrated the festival [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Sector 56, Gurgaon have started drinking bottled water because the water from the tap is so dirty that even purifiers can’t filter it. Every other person in the neighborhood is falling sick. Open pools of sewage in the vacant plots are also poisoning groundwater.This has led to contamination of drinking water and the [...] Continue Reading »
Social group People’s Action wants the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) to be made stronger with better infrastructure, otherwise development work will be affected as its staff keeps shifting from one department to another. So it asked for a Residents’ Ward Committee (RWC) for Gurgaon on the lines of Delhi to improve civic governance and [...] Continue Reading »
LEDs help cut down on the power consumption figures greatly, while providing more energy as compared to conventional lights. LEDs have 80% efficiency, which means around 80% of the electrical energy you supply gets converted to light, which is quite high compared to conventional light sources, which have only 20% efficiency. According to the Haryana [...] Continue Reading »
