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Buildings without OC (Occupation Certificate) in Bengaluru can now obtain electricity and water/sewage connections under a newly-announced regularisation scheme. Upon registration under this scheme, violators will be penalised with 25 percent higher tariff on energy consumption. This new rule is being implemented according to a circular from the Urban Development Department, for all housing structures [...] Continue Reading »
In the run-up to the elections, the Prithviraj Chavan government in Maharashtra has been busily allotting more floor space index (FSI) to real estate projects. The Urban Development Department accounted for the second highest number of files cleared by the Chief Minister’s Office across 49 departments between June and September this year. A total of [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra government has once again asked the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to submit details of completion certificates it had issued to various households under group housing schemes between 2009 and 2012. In a letter issued on August 12, 2014, M M Patil, additional secretary of the urban development department (UDD) has directed the municipal [...] Continue Reading »
Assam’s Chief Minister TarunGogoi today asked the state’s Urban Development Department to prepare the terms and conditions of the ‘Smart City‘. Gogoi mentioned that Guwahati has found a place in the list of 100 such cities envisioned by the Centre and he wants to see the dream take shape soon. The sources in the Chief [...] Continue Reading »
Months after scrapping the relaxation the previous Left Front government had given on land holdings beyond ceiling, the Mamata Banerjee government has taken a similar route to boost urban infrastructure. Another new decision has occurred as all building plans will be sanctioned online from now on. The government has come up with a policy for [...] 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 »
A central scheme which is a decade old scheme introduced by the previous UPA government for providing urbanisation in rural areas will soon be taken in for implementation for Gujarat’s Rurban model all across India. The Union Budget of 2014-15 which was presided over by finance minister Arun Jaitley, past week did not mention any [...] Continue Reading »
There is a growing interest amongst citizens of Mumbai to know more about the place they live in, they want the building details, plans, dealings of land and property, and civic issue information too. It is mostly that civic and property issues are searched for using the arm of the Right to Information act, and [...] Continue Reading »
The building bylaws of 1983 have no provision for the structural safety and stability of existing buildings. More perturbing is the data from the Susceptibility Atlas of India (2007), which shows that out of 33.8 lakh buildings, over 31 lakh are at medium risk during an earthquake and 1.46 lakh are at high risk. On [...] Continue Reading »
On April 21, The Supreme Court will hear the petition filed by Ideal Road Builders (IRB) to withdraw the temporary stay granted by Bombay high court (HC) to the city’s toll collection. Justice A S Oka and Justice M H Sonak headed an HC division bench had during a joint hearing of public interest litigations [...] Continue Reading »
