Ludhiana
Government has announced the construction of a six lane expressway from Delhi to Ludhiana with an estimated budget of Rs 20,000 crore. The three states – Delhi, Punjab and Haryana approved the construction of 357 km road structure for the expressway. The route map will be finalised by the next month as claimed by the Road [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- A new expressway has been planned to be built between Delhi and Ludhiana similar to the stretch between Delhi and Jaipur. In this regard, the road transport and highways ministry has planned a meeting of chief ministers from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi on January 16. Once the three chief ministers give their consent [...] Continue Reading »
The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation has gone hi-tech with SMS services. The citizens can now get notifications about water, sewerage bills and house tax on their cell phones. The authority would send texts to the registered cellphone numbers of its consumers informing them of the due dates and even receipts. The civic body is preparing an [...] Continue Reading »
Ludhiana residents are irked over chemical waste being dumped on banks of a canal. Large quantities of industrial waste were dumped on the canal banks near Rara Sahib and the culprit has not been nabbed yet. People in the southwestern part of the state drink water from this canal and use the water for irrigating [...] Continue Reading »
The new property tax policy of the state government of Punjab has not gone down well with the citizens of Ludhiana. The property tax rates fixed at 1 per cent for residential, 1.5 per cent for institutional, 2 per cent for industrial and 4 per cent for commercial property are being considered very high by [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate firm DLF has announced that it plans to launch new residential projects at Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Panipat and Kasauli. These projects are dubbed as part of company’s strategy to strengthen its presence outside Gurgaon. The company has not finalized the business plans entailing the investment detail in these projects. As per the company management, [...] Continue Reading »
The deputy chief minister of Punjab has told the respective department for the construction of six major national highway projects, to complete them in stipulated time. The construction cost of the Amritsar-Sri Ganga Nagar road is estimated at Rs. 3000 crore, and the cost of construction of Patiala-Bathinda four-laned road is estimated at Rs 2007 [...] Continue Reading »
There is nothing new in commercial activities carried out in residential areas. The same scenario is to be seen in Ludhiana but the authorities have turned a blind eye towards it. Commercial activities are causing many problems from theft to environmental degradation. The garbage also keeps piling up and the roads get blocked. The areas [...] Continue Reading »
Some parts of Ludhiana supplies water without it being chlorinated. BRS Nagar, Vishal Nagar, Gurdev Nagar residents fear of water infection because dozers which are used for chlorinating water are not working for few days. These dozers are generally installed on the tube wells which supplies water to various parts of the city. It has [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation (MC) in Ludhiana earned Rs 1.36 crore from the recent auction of one multi-level parking lot. In which the corporation earned Rs 1.11 crore from parking lot near old vegetable market and the multi-level parking lot was auctioned for Rs 25.87 lakh. The zonal officers say that they had received around 16 [...] Continue Reading »
