Illegal constructions
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently carried out a demolition drive of illegal constructions in the city. The illegal constructions were standing tall in KarveNagar, Warje, Wanowrie and Kondhwa in Pune. These buildings were spread across 40,000 square feet. The KarvenagarWarje ward office and the deputy commissioner office of Wanowrie and Kondhwa initiated the demolition [...] Continue Reading »
Balasore- With the increased activities of illegal land conversion for construction purposes,the realtors are also been plotting and selling of riverbed in Mayurbhanj district. Owing to such activities the district administration has dispatched an inquiry apart from just banning construction activities on that patch of land. There have been various builders who have allegedly acquired large areas of [...] Continue Reading »
As a good initiative, the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has stopped providing civic services to the unauthorised constructions which are built in its limits after March 31, 2012. The services stopped include water supply, drainage connections and streetlights, among other facilities. The action is being taken on the directives of the municipal commissioner. The [...] Continue Reading »
Kanpur- In order to curb illegal constructions in the city, Kanpur Development Authority (KDA) started a drive from 2nd January to seal illegal constructions across the city. The drive is moving in full swing and the Authority has sealed over 135 illegal buildings and under-construction structures. According to KDA officials, the drive will not stop [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation has recently demolished illegal constructions in the city spread across 2095 sqft area in Kondhwa Khurd. This initiative was taken after a three storey illegal building collapsed in the last week of September last year killing 11 people. The building was built in low water zone area where only 0.33 floor space [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body has send notice to the developers of the illegal constructions before the demolish drive but no one came forward. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had demolished the illegal buildings in the city and now they are in search of the developers of those construction to recover the amount incurred for demolition. Only [...] Continue Reading »
The Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit promised support to residents of Delhi Cantonment area who are feared of having their structures being demolished. It was requested by Shiela that the cantonment area should be given amnesty at a meeting with the Union Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju. Shiela also showed concerns towards her [...] Continue Reading »
With the Supreme Court’s order to demolish illegal constructions in Pune, there were about 44,000 sq ft which were cleared against encroachments in separate operations initiated by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pimpri Chinchwad New Township Development Authority (PCNTDA). There were about three structures demolished by the PMC of about 19,500 sq ft in Hadapsar. Since [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent meeting held, the Supreme Court said that the common man felt cheated as the authorities only demolish illegal slums of the poor and not the illegal constructions by the rich. A bench of Justices said that the illegal constructions by the affluent destroyed the concept of planned development and also it affects [...] Continue Reading »
The government has modified the Karnataka Land Revenue (Amendment) Bill–2012 to pass it. The bill seeks to regularize unauthorised construction of houses on government land in areas other than cities and towns. The modification came after facing pressure from the opposition. Opposition members had raised objection to a clause that provided for regularization of buildings [...] Continue Reading »
