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A complaint was filed in the Bombay high court by a Thane resident claiming that two civic bodies had authorized cluster redevelopment in their areas without doing any impact evaluation study of the scheme. On March 19 hearing will be done on the PIL filed by Dattatray Daund. Daund alleged that impact assessment study should [...] Continue Reading »
Ruling DF government is yet to decide on which proposal it should accept for redevelopment of old structures deadlock. NAVI MUMBAI: As the ruling DF government is yet to decide on which proposal it should accept for redevelopment of old structures deadlock over finalizing the FSI for decaying buildings in Navi Mumbai continues. City and [...] Continue Reading »
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has concluded the concept for its Hyderabad Habitat Centre and sent it for acceptance of the municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) department. The Hyderabad Habitat Centre (HHC) is constructed in about 12.5 acres at Izzatnagar near Hi-Tech City railway station, for promotion of heritage, art and culture on the lines [...] Continue Reading »
The state government continues to follow the J&K Development Act-1970, which has an outdated land acquisition provisions, although the population of Jammu city is expected to touch 19 lakh in 2021. The government has also confessed that the failure of Municipal Corporations, Urban Development Department and other agencies to match with rapidly growing demands of [...] Continue Reading »
For the past six years of its construction, only 67 per cent of the work has been completed of the Vivekananda Road flyover and the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is unsure about when the flyover will be opened to the public. The agency has already missed three deadlines. This, interesting news is coming at a [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government seem not to be bothered about the issue of illegal buildings as no measures have been taken to implement a March 2009 order to set up special civic police stations and special courts across 22 municipal corporations to regulate unauthorized construction. Over 70 people lost their lives in a recent incident [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) two wings namely town planning unit and land acquisition unit are struggling over the ‘urgency clause’ of the Land Acquisition (LA) Act. According to the urgency clause of Land acquisition act, property owners do not have any right to raise objections over acquisition of their properties. On one [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently spent public funds to fill up a pond which is supposed to be a heritage property. BMC has invested Rs 5.25 crore to fill a 100 year old pond located at Kandivali West with debris. The pond belongs to the collector and not the civic body, still BMC [...] Continue Reading »
Now even the people living in the outskirts of Bangalore have to pay equal property tax. The BBMP council approved the reorganization of six tax zones for tax collection. After the state government approves the BBMP’s proposal, the process of re-classification will begin. People living in the outskirts of the city which falls in c, [...] 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 »
