Urban development
Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh would be developed as ‘smart cities’. He also said that Vijayawada, Guntur and Tenali would be provided Metro rail services. Notably, the state government had recently announced that the new capital of Andhra Pradesh would be located “around Vijayawada“. As [...] Continue Reading »
In some good news for Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh government has been told by its revenue department that more than 45,000 acres of degraded forest land, largely encroached by locals and small industrial units, are available in the surroundings of Vijayawada for building the new capital. The chief minister, who has received the report, [...] Continue Reading »
Answering queries raised by the media regarding inclusion of EWS houses at Dwarka, Sector -23 in the new housing scheme as one bedroom apartments, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday clarified that the flats at Dwarka, Sector-23 was initially conceived as affordable houses for lower sections of the society and accordingly the work was [...] Continue Reading »
The Union Govt earmarked an amount of Rs 7,060 crore, in the Budget 2014-15, for developing 100 smart cities in the coming years; thereby underscoring that efforts are underway to revive the country’s infrastructure investment. For achieving its plans with regard to infrastructure investment, the Govt will consider existing models like public-private partnership and infrastructure [...] Continue Reading »
The focus of the smart cities project should be made to enhance the quality of urban life through an integrated approach to the urban planning and the execution apart from ensuring the ‘inclusivity’. This was stated by the Minister of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation M Venkaiah Naidu stated on Tuesday. Naidu [...] Continue Reading »
The Housing Regulatory Act was designed with a view to regulate and promote construction, sale, management, and transfer of flats on ownership basis. Under this Act, it is now essential that project developers pay a fee close to Rs 50,000 in order to register their projects online through a government website, listing all the project [...] Continue Reading »
In order to meet the demands of better urban living, the government has offered tax and non-tax incentives to promote investments in urban infrastructure and housing sectors. This includes REIT and InvITs and has also made provisions for increasing Plan outlay in the Budget 2014-15. After the presentation of the budget, the Urban Development and [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent interview, Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu has talked about various plans the ministry has in the offing. Elaborating on Urban Development Ministry’s plan for 100 smart cities, he said that international models were being studied, and countries like France, Australia, Singapore and Japan had been requested to submit ideas and suggestions. He [...] Continue Reading »
The Mamata Banerjee government is trying to take opinion from French and British architects and town planners in its endeavour to bring an international perspective for town planning and urban development in the city. A seminar was organized by the CII on urban designing and town planning. French town planner Florence Bougnoux, a man of [...] Continue Reading »
Location is everything, and when a new city is to be founded, getting in early on the action is a smart thing to do is a known fact to anyone who has ever dabbled in real estate. Therefore members of the committee of urban planners and urban policy experts were stunned to find their mailbox [...] Continue Reading »
