Revenue department
Kochi- Land acquisition for Thammanam-Pullepady road widening project seems to start shortly with the Kochi Corporation planning to issue the preliminary notification. Revenue department has been issued directions to speed up procedures for issuing a preliminary or 4 (1) notification. The project requires around 20 acres of land for road widening as well as rehabilitation [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi- The regularisation of 532 colonies, proposed by the Urban Development department for regularisation in September, 2012, is likely to move a step further with Delhi Government’s Urban Development department asking for the land status report. The urban development department had earlier dealt with cases of such illegal colonies, wherein colonies were built on private [...] Continue Reading »
The state government is planning to divide the water supply proportionately to the city as the water levels in Kabini and Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dams went down. Bangalore was hit by drought last year, which resulted in the depletion of water levels in Cauvery basin reservoirs. From November 2012, new areas of Bruhat Bangalore [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi/NCR- Now owners registering properties in Delhi should obligatorily have biometric identity proof along with other mandatory documents, an Aadhar Unique Identification (UID) number and an enrollment slip should be provided at the registrar’s office. The revenue department made the Biometric ID proof mandatory from January 1 for almost all of its services including registration of property to domicile and SC/ST certificates. The [...] Continue Reading »
Thiruvananthapuram- On 12th December, comptroller and auditor general of India submitted a report in the state assembly which says that Kochi Corporation does not adopt transparency methods while assessing property tax in city. The report also stated variations in calculating property tax for similar properties in the same area. Other faults found includes lack of co-ordination between town and revenue [...] Continue Reading »
Thiruvananthpuram- The issue of land acquisition is been exaggerated by two ministers by sending confusing signals to the land owners which in turn creates hurdles for developmental projects in Kerela. Owners who are willing to surrender their land as per the Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R & R) package will be provided Infrastructural Bonds (IB) by the revenue department. [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has decided to conduct a study on buildings including courts, police stations and police quarters yet to be covered under the property tax. The revenue department of Chennai Corporation has intensified efforts to increase property tax collection. The civic body plans to issue notices to buildings that have failed to pay property [...] Continue Reading »
The Revenue Department has declared that it is going to introduce changes in the accounting standards for the real estate sector to bring about uniformity in reporting of financial results. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has stated that the report of the CBDT appointed committee on accounting standard for the real estate sector [...] Continue Reading »
Shortage of lands seems to cease being a problem for building affordable houses in Ahmedabad. 790 acres of land acquired under Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act(ULCRA) for developing houses for the urban poor and middle class in Ahmedabad had been lying unutilised for decades and now authorities are planning to come up with housing [...] Continue Reading »
Finally the Delhi government is set to grant recognition to the unauthorized colonies. The government has plans to regularize 624 unauthorised colonies out of 1,639 such settlements in the first phase of regularization The first phase is likely to be completed soon as all concerned agencies including ASI, Forest Department, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) , [...] Continue Reading »
