illegal buildings
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the three municipal corporations to formulate an action plan and offer suggestions for dealing with unauthorised constructions, especially buildings identified as illegal, in consultation with other agencies dealing with urban development and water and power supply. The commissioners of the corporations – East, South and North – appeared [...] Continue Reading »
There seems to be no place for the poor in the Millennium City in Gurgaon though they have played an important role in its development. Apparently the authorities are trying to lessen the number of slums and provide affordable housing to the people from the economically weaker sections (EWS) of the society by continuously making [...] Continue Reading »
On Wednesday in Navi Mumbai, an illegal building was completely demolished by the officials of the Controller of Unauthorized Construction (CUC). This took place in sector 12 of Juhugaon on a plot belonging to Cidco. This is not the first, but a second time in which we see the officials taking up the cumbersome task [...] Continue Reading »
According to reliable sources, around 11 floors were demolished by the Mumbai municipality’s special squad. These floors were found in a building named Deshabhiman in Siddharth Nagar. Located in the western region of Goregaon and 25 kilometres away from Campa Cola Complex at Worli, the process of destruction began this January. This happened hardly two [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will help Mumbaikars to make an informed decision before purchasing a house in the city. Civic approved building plans and certificates issued for a project will be available online. Shailesh Gandhi, head of the technical advisory committee explains that by the month-end, building plans approved since June 2013 will be uploaded [...] Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court put a hold on an order to demolish Supertech’s two under-construction 40-storey towers in the real estate firm’s Emerald Court project. A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha issued notices on a batch of petitions by the builder preventing the immediate demolition of the two towers. The bench questioned the [...] Continue Reading »
A combine demolition drive of Allahabad Municipal Corporation and Allahabad Development Authority (ADA) was conducted in which some illegal encroachments were razed to the ground. In this drive police team is also present with demolition squad. The squad consists of bulldozers, earthmovers, and trucks initially assembled near the Cantt police station. The squad than move [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai’s civic body has decided to demolish the 35 illegal floors in the seven high rises of the Campa Cola Compound. The Supreme Court has refused to regularize them and the residents have given a time of five months to vacate the premise. Only six floors were permitted but the builders had illegally constructed excessively [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government seem not to be bothered about the issue of illegal buildings as no measures have been taken to implement a March 2009 order to set up special civic police stations and special courts across 22 municipal corporations to regulate unauthorized construction. Over 70 people lost their lives in a recent incident [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi- South Delhi Municipal Corporation is set to demolish all illegal buildings in Shri Sai Kunj, an unauthorised colony being developed in the Vasant Kunj area. A Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee, named, Sealing of Commercial Establishments in Residential Premises, has recently discovered the unauthorised colony located adjacent to the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences [...] Continue Reading »
