JNNURM
With the target of providing of providing houses for all by 2022, a new integrated National Housing Mission will be launched soon by merging some of UPA flagship schemes like JNNURM and Rajiv Awas Yojana. Noting that the gigantic task of ensuring housing for all needs large scale participation of private developers, Urban Development and [...] Continue Reading »
Today the Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation M.Venkaiah Naidu reviewed the status of the construction of houses in Delhi. These houses were constructed under the component of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Naidu expressed concerns over the shortfall in respect of construction of houses under JNNURM. Ever since the [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Government has been ordered by the Union Government to furnish details related to the allotment of flats to the poor under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM). In its correspondence to the Delhi Government with regard to flat allotments under JNNURM scheme, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has [...] Continue Reading »
In order to meet the demands of better urban living, the government has offered tax and non-tax incentives to promote investments in urban infrastructure and housing sectors. This includes REIT and InvITs and has also made provisions for increasing Plan outlay in the Budget 2014-15. After the presentation of the budget, the Urban Development and [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh’s dreams to commute in Metro Rail like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and other cities of India were shattered as the newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) Kirron Kher is against the Metro project for the city. During the Administrator’s Advisory Council (AAC) meeting, which was chaired by Union Territory Administrator Shivraj V Patil Kirron [...] Continue Reading »
The new urban development and housing minister Venkaiah Naidu and member of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet, stated that he wants to see the dream of ‘’House for all by 2020’’ come true. He is pushing to bring down the home loan rates and focusing on developing 100 smart cities so that the burden on [...] Continue Reading »
For the past six years of its construction, only 67 per cent of the work has been completed of the Vivekananda Road flyover and the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is unsure about when the flyover will be opened to the public. The agency has already missed three deadlines. This, interesting news is coming at a [...] Continue Reading »
The development work in 24 towns of Rajasthan continues to suffer as the new government has not yet initiated the reissuing of tender process of Rs 2,400 crore after they were cancelled in December by GS Sandhu, former Urban Development and Housing (UDH) additional chief secretary. After the cancellation, the department had claimed to adopt [...] Continue Reading »
In the wake of land mafia and other influential people grabbing vast stretches of government land in prime locations in the city, the state government has finally woken up to assess the exact volume of land encroached and now want to take steps to free the properties. In a recent meeting of city management group [...] Continue Reading »
Punjab Government, after spending crores on preparing Detailed Project report of the proposed Ludhiana Metro project (since 2011), estimated to cost a whopping Rs 10,330 crore, has on Wednesday dumped the project and doled out much ‘cheaper and economical’ Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) for Ludhiana which will cost Rs 1,250 crore only. The Government [...] Continue Reading »
