Maharashtra’s Ready Reckoner revamp may align valuations with market realitiesIn a bold move, Maharashtra is gearing up to implement micro-zoning alongside tailored Ready Reckoner rates, a shift designed to refine pro...
Reliance Industries-led consortium wins bid for 101-acre Mumbai slum redevelopment projectA Reliance-led consortium has secured the bid for the massive Juhu Galli slum redevelopment in Mumbai. This project will build over 28,000 ...
Dharavi Redevelopment: Upper-floor home rehab hinges on ground-floor eligibilityUpper-floor residents in the Dharavi redevelopment project may face eligibility challenges, as their rehabilitation depends partly on wheth...
Upper-floor eligibility in Dharavi slum rehabilitation tied to ground-floor status, documentsUpper-floor residents in Dharavi can now get new homes. Eligibility depends on ground-floor occupants. A new government rule offers 300 sq ...
Housing dreams falter in West Bengal amid corruption, land crunchEligible families in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, are denied housing benefits. Decades of occupancy on railway land disqualify them from...
Maharashtra government's slum policy strange as it encourages encroachments; its inspection required, says HCThe court said once slums on a private land are recognised under the Slum Act, strangely the encroachment on a private land gets converted ...
Mumbai SRA to grant project commencement approvals within 7 days of applicationHowever, this comes with a condition that the developer has to fulfil all statutory compliances including initial documentation and procedu...
Urban Housing Mission launched in OdishaThe policy also outlines institutional mechanism for sustainable operation and maintenance of the housing projects to ensure proper mainten...
Mumbai's salt pan lands may house slum dwellersState will ask SRA to do a survey to assess eligible &non-eligible slum dwellers.
Slum rehabilitation policy: DDA for taking consent of majority of dwellersThe developer will be given free-sale component of land as an incentive for taking up the project, which he can sell on the open market.
Maharashtra government mulls policy to make slum dwellers pay housing costMaharashtra government is mulling over framing a policy whereby the slum dwellers will have to pay for the cost of housing.
- Slum-dwellers to get land title deeds in Karnataka
Karnataka Cabinet cleared a policy seeking to give land title deeds to slum-dwellers, remove hurdles in constructing dwelling units in such...
- B-Safal to develop over 4.6 lakh sq ft of slums in Ahmedabad
B-Safal has received the "preliminary sanction" to develop over 4.6 lakh square feet of slums in Ahmedabad.
- Slum-free? Don't even dream
At a conference of the India-Gulf Co-operation Council on 29th May, M Ramachandran, secretary, Union ministry of urban development, while d...
- Officials are busy legalising slums
The Maharashtra government, it seems, acts first and thinks about it later. After deciding to relax the cut-off date by five years to Janua...
- State may redraw slum policy
The Bombay High Court’s recent censuring of the Maharashtra Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) schemes may lead to a major policy shift in...
- Deshmukh dwells on slums
City slums, the ever-bankable political constituency, will resurface as a tricky electoral issue with several municipal corporations in Mah...