Prithviraj Chavan
In 2008, conveyance deed was first introduced in the real estate market to protect the interest of home buyers. But this year, hardly 1,200 housing societies have applied for conveyance certificate out of 88,000 and only 700 of them got the deed. The Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in a recent meeting said that a statewide drive will [...] Continue Reading »
Finally the plan for installing water meter is being worked out. The scarcity of drinking water has become a serious issue in most cities across the state. People are literally struggling for each drop of water releasing from reservoirs to the areas facing water scarcity problem. Recently the city has faced water crisis on account [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- The state government has made it mandatory regarding township projects to create approximately one-fourth of the area for economic activity to boost creation of new economic hubs. Exclusive township projects usually are those when a developer is allowed to create a township as well as offers all the necessary amenities and infrastructure in a composite plot [...] Continue Reading »
Sources reveal that Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan is not in favour of extending the deadline for paying value added tax (VAT) or reducing the tax rate on flat purchases. As the order of paying VAT has been handled by the high court, the chief minister does not want to extend the deadline or reduce [...] Continue Reading »
Around 225 former and serving legislators will have to pay over Rs 85 crore as penal interest and delayed amount in Maharashtra. They have been penalised for failing to make the full payment of the flats allotted to them in Versova by Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) in 2009. Compared to the market [...] Continue Reading »
Faced with criticism that the Maharashtra government has been stifling the growth of real estate in the state, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan assured the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) that its concerns would be addressed within 45 days. MCHI had raised several issues during a presentation. It claimed that these issues are hampering real [...] Continue Reading »
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has asked the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), at a discussion in the Assembly on Monday, to provide a report in connection with the increase in cost in construction of low-cost flats for poor. The cost of flats being constructed in different parts of the city had been generating a lot of [...] Continue Reading »
Turning down a demand that builders be allowed to get additional floor space index (FSI) by paying premium in redeveloping old Mhada buildings in the city, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said they would have to share housing stock with Mhada in redeveloped buildings. Chavan said that a meeting of local legislators would be held after [...] Continue Reading »
While making his position clear on tackling the alleged nexus between the BMC officials and construction lobbies, the Maharashtra Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan admitted that development charges of Rs. 102 crore is yet to be recovered from the developers. It is to be noted that the usual procedure is that BMC recovers this charge from [...] Continue Reading »
