Residential purpose
The Pune Cantonment Board is clicking properties pictures to check if it is used for industrial or residential purpose. For the first time this is being done to maintain transparency in property tax and to make an assessment for 2011-2014 property tax. PCB started off with providing notices to 12, 000 property owners. The notices [...] Continue Reading »
The Special Lokayukta Court on July 17 accused the Lokayukta police for not taking any action related to violation of rules by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). A complaint was filed by ex-councillor Lakshminarayana against the authority stating that BDA allowed conversion of land for residential purpose which was actually meant for maintaining a nursery. [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi, one of the most populous and urban cities in India is in shortage of spaces for residential and commercial purpose. Keeping the living spaces need in mind, urban development ministry has affirmed that agricultural land has to be used for the developing projects. This realisation came into picture while framing the Delhi’s Master Plan [...] Continue Reading »
Site 153, LB Road in Thiruvanmiyur stands alone after it became Chennai’s go-to place for those with a patriotic streak. The 16-storey building, which was meant to be a commercial complex and office block, had been lying vacant and unfinished for four years before a week of the indefinite fast by the volunteers of Anna [...] Continue Reading »
The Ministry of Environment & Forests has prepared a nomination dossier for the inscription of 39 sites in the Western Ghats on the World Heritage list. Of the 39 sites, four, including the Kas plateau, are in the Sahyadri (Maharashtra) range. Better connectivity to the plateau has resulted into huge number of visitors flocking the [...] Continue Reading »
In the last 13 days,the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)’s south zone has taken sealing and demolition action against 99 properties, of which close to 75-80 were constructed on agricultural land. Intensifying its drive against unauthorized construction and encroachment, MCD demolished 10 properties on Monday, including one in Chattarpur Enclave which was razed to the [...] Continue Reading »
