2022-10-24
CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s Diwali gift has arrived three days before festival for housing beneficiaries of Vizag, said municipal administration and urban development minister A Suresh while handing over registration certificates and keys to 5,000 Tidco housing beneficiaries. The GVMC has identified 24,192 eligible beneficiaries for Tidco houses. While 22,936 houses are being constructed in the suburbs, 1,256 houses are coming up in various slums in the city.
2022-10-24
Subsequent to the expansion of Chennai Metropolitan Area from 1,189 sqkm to 5,904 sqkm, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) is in the process of preparing a proposal to notify potential growth centres Kancheepuram, Minjur, Tiruvallur, Thirumazhisai and Chengalpet as New Town development areas.
2022-10-24
The Chandigarh municipal corporation has issued notices to around 3,200 property tax defaulters, who owe more than Rs 1 crore in total. As per the records of the MC, around 1,900 tax defaulters have been identified from residential category, while the rest around 1,300 defaulters fall in commercial category.
2022-10-24
The Nashik Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) move to play the drums in front of the houses of property tax defaulters during three consecutive days last week has yielded good results as the civic body has received Rs 2.7 crore revenue from the defaulters. The property tax department has set a target of collecting Rs 250 crore.
2022-10-24
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) housing scheme has become a major instrument of socio-economic change in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said even as he slammed the political culture of 'Revdi' or freebies. In Madhya Pradesh, about 30 lakh houses have been built under the PMAY in the last eight years and another 9-10 lakh houses are being constructed, PM said.
2022-10-23
Motilal Oswal has invested a sum of Rs 260 crore in Urbanrise - Alliance Group for the company's upcoming three projects in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The funds were raised towards three upcoming projects - 30 acres villa project on Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru, the seven acres high-rise apartment project in Whitefield, Bengaluru and the 17.5 acres of high-rise apartment project in Nizampet, Hyderabad.
2022-10-23
After seven decades of silence, the Bihar government will soon begin a massive exercise of distributing 1.60 lakh acres of "clear and hassle free" Bhoodan land, which were all donated but not distributed among landless people in the state back in the days. The distribution will start after December.
2022-10-23
Environment and PWD minister Nilesh Cabral said that the PWD will implement measures and disposal techniques for construction activities to curb the menace of mishandling and pollution through construction debris. Goa is in the process of setting up the construction and demolition waste treatment plant at Mapusa in collaboration with Norway-based research organisation SINTEF.
2022-10-23
Since Panjab University (PU) has not paid property tax amounting to Rs 22 crore to the Municipal Corporation despite having been served a recovery notice. PU authorities will hold a meeting with civic body officials next week to discuss the issue.
2022-10-23
The state government has approved two town planning (TP) schemes for Uruli Devachi and Phursungi. These are the first TP schemes after a gap of nearly 40 years in Pune. The PMC and Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) had declared three TP schemes some four years ago for the two areas.
