Land
The progress of major development projects in Maharashtra has been affected due to the differences over the land acquisition bill. Among these projects, most were shortlisted by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan two years ago. The Navi Mumbai airport, the nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, the coastal road and railway expansion projects are among them that [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Kumar Elixir Society on Baner road allege that Kumar Builders is trying to sell a plot which is a part of the society, however the conveyance agreement was never executed. The flat owners have filed an application with the Chatushrungi police station asking not to allow anyone to take the land that belongs [...] Continue Reading »
Delegation of Delhi farmers has met Union Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh to convey their disappointment on the systematic watering down of a draft of the Land Acquisition Bill by the Group of Ministers. More than 300 special economic zones have come up on the fertile land of the farmers and they are not been [...] Continue Reading »
The Centre and States have agreed to revise the provisions of the Land Acquisition Bill after considering the concerns of industry. State Chief Secretaries and Principal Industry Secretaries have met and arrived at a consensus that provisions in the Bill need to be reworked to boost manufacturing sector. The crucial issues where emphasis is to [...] Continue Reading »
The new industrial policy of Madhya Pradesh is likely to be unveiled by the middle of the next month. The proposed policy has already started brewing up storms as it proposes an increase in the price of industrial land to Rs 40 per sq ft from the existing Rs 23.75 per sq ft. The industries [...] Continue Reading »
Wave Infratech, the real estate arm of Ponty Chadha’s Wave Group, has announced that Noida Authority has approved the master plan for its ambitious Rs 10,000 crore integrated township ‘Wave City Centre‘ at Noida. The integrated mixed-use project would be developed on the land the company had won last year through an auction for about [...] Continue Reading »
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has collected Rs 125 crore through the auction of 42 plots in the city. The HMDA got Rs 84.74 crore for over four acres of land in Nandagiri Hills, the most prized possession of the authority. NetNet Ventures Pvt Ltd,bought the plot for Rs 18.5 crore per acre against [...] Continue Reading »
Activists led by Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar have alleged that the much anticipated Land Acquisition Bill was actually a “diluted version” of the Standing Committee’s recommended bill. The activists under the aegis of National Alliance of People’s Movements and Sangharsh claimed that the strong position taken by the Standing Committee had been diluted [...] Continue Reading »
The 2,750 acres of land in Bangalore North was acquired by Bangalore Development Authority to form Arkavathy Layout about nine years ago. Despite the fact that allotment of the site is yet to be completed, high-end villas, villaments and row houses have come up all around Arkavathy. The private developers have been showing interest to [...] Continue Reading »
The empowered committee headed by Minister Shanti Dhariwal, cleared 45 pending cases related to land allotment, conversion and regularization. To expedite the development work, the committee cleared the files that were stuck in the bureaucratic cycle for long. Of the cases, nine pertained to land regularization in residential colonies, 18 were of acquired land. Another [...] Continue Reading »
