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The smart cities project is a long-term plan and expecting results overnight will be immature, Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said here on Friday. He indicated a larger, dominant role for the States in the project with the Centre playing only a supporting role. Naidu said that contrary to popular perception, the project [...] Continue Reading »
Ever since the NaMo government has taken charge in the center, the media is buzzing with the news of 100 smart cities. The government had announced a plan to develop 100 smart cities to provide better amenities in the urban areas and develop the tier II and tier III cities to reduce the load from [...] Continue Reading »
Aiming to solve the problem of regularisation of unauthorised colonies in the national capital city, the Centre will prepare a draft policy on it in the next 15 days. A concept paper will be prepared within 15 days after which Delhi government, in consultation with the Union Urban Development Ministry, would prepare an action plan [...] Continue Reading »
The NDMC has plans underway to give a facelift to the Super Bazar area in Connaught Place. The Super Bazaar building has been non-operational since 2002, when the bazaar was shut down because of monetary issues. The plans which the NDMC is working on, to give the Super Bazar area a facelift, include the construction [...] Continue Reading »
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed in a recent report sent to Lieutenant Governor’s office that the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government did not provide the much-claimed basic services in 895 unauthorized colonies in Delhi before legalizing them. Though the provision of basic facilities to illegal colonies in the capital was one of the [...] Continue Reading »
DDA has identified eight new landfill sites. The landfills of Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa are now saturated and the unscientific ways to eliminate solid waste is polluting the area. The lieutenant governor (LG) on Monday reviewed the progress in New Delhi about providing land to the corporations to deal with solid waste mess. One of [...] Continue Reading »
Passing relief to property owners in Lutyens’ Delhi, NDMC has revised land rates. The civic agency has decided to go with Delhi Development Authority’s land rates instead of the Delhi government’s circle rates, which it had adopted in 2008. This means there will be a massive drop in prices: what cost Rs 19.35 lakh per [...] Continue Reading »
The Tata-owned Indian Hotels Company got another chance to operate the iconic Taj Mansingh hotel as the New Delhi Municipal Council did not have any feedback from the Solicitor General on the auction and the current lease expires on March 31. Mr. Jalaj Srivastava, chairperson of NDMC, says that the council has decided to give a four-month extension, [...] Continue Reading »
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has plans to develop and eco-friendly Park in Delhi. The location selected for the park is on Kushak Nala located at Sardar Patel Marg. The park will have a lot of things like rope-based sports activities to offer. The civic body plans to build it under the public-private partnership [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to float a scheme to check on government employees who sublet their allotted homes. Under this, the civic body has asked complainants to inform about any such flat and gain allotment of the same. The subletter will have to evict the house and also face hefty penalty. Under [...] Continue Reading »
