road widening project
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 »
Two highway projects for road widening in Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha have got approval from the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). The two projects approved by the CCEA include widening of Patna-Gaya-Dobhi section on NH-83 in Bihar project and Baharagora-Sambalpur stretch in Odisha and Jharkhand. As per official records, the total project cost is estimated [...] Continue Reading »
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is planning to widen the Spine Road at Triveninagar in Talawade by 600 meter to reduce the traffic snarls. The Spine Road is an important link road which is 14 km from the Mumbai-Pune highway to the Pune-Nashik highway. The road has been developed by the Pimpri Chinchwad New [...] Continue Reading »
Locals and various RWAs had staged a huge demonstration against the road-widening project in Sankey Road. Later, Malleswaram Residents’ Welfare Association member Dr Meenakshi Bharat and five others moved the high court against the project. The petitioners contended that the widening of the road would only increase the rate of accidents and pedestrians and students [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Malleswaram felt betrayed when they came to know about the acquisition of part of the playground for the road widening project through the media. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) attempt to use a section of the playground situated at 18th cross in Malleswaram for the road widening project. The residents felt betrayed and [...] Continue Reading »
Everybody involved in the TDR (transferable development rights) tangle seems to have forgotten a simple truth. The TDR was a scheme meant to preserve open spaces and heritage buildings in the heart of a city, moving development to outskirts. But in Bangalore, it has morphed into taking chunks of land away from home owners. BBMP, [...] Continue Reading »
Initially, this offer is only for property owners on Magadi Road who have to give up their land for road widening. The BBMP is now buying them from property losers to expedite road widening. The decision was taken during Tuesday’s inspection by H Ravindra, chairman, major works committee. Ravindra assured the worried 232 property owners [...] Continue Reading »
According to the current law, properties can be acquired for road-widening only under TDR.Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) is a certificate from the Municipal Corporation that the owner of a property gets where his/her property (either part or whole) is reserved for the purpose of public utilities such as road, garden, school etc. TDR can [...] Continue Reading »
