Hyderabad
Recession and separate Telangana issue continue to haunt auctions of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). Though the urban development authority has put up 229 plots for auction, so far only 85 bidders have come forward …

Kolkata
Getting Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s assessment officials off the back of property owners was among the key suggestions by members of KMC’s committee appointed to advise the new Trinamool Congress board. Property tax apart, an entire …

Mumbai
In a major concession, the Centre on July 6 agreed to allow private participation in the redevelopment of old, dilapidated buildings and slums falling within the Coastal Regulation Zone in the city. According to some …

Mumbai
The Bombay high court may have given 160 families of Chand Co-operative Housing society in Juhu a ray of hope in ensuring that their 16-yearold redevelopment agreement finally gets complied with. The court gave the …

Chennai
More than 16 months after the work on the limited use subway (LUS) replacing the existing railway line in Chromepet began, the Rs 7.55-crore project has hit a roadblock as the state highways department is …

Kolkata
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has quietly removed around 40 buildings from the heritage list after being allegedly paid nearly Rs 12 crore by different builders who have acquired the properties and even demolished some of …

Kolkata
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) heritage conservation committee no longer exists. Even though the 11-member committee remains on paper, it has no legal status at present since a proposal for reconstruction of the committee has …

Mumbai
After Mumbai, it is the turn of Navi Mumbai to lose its designated green spaces. The state recently dereserved 78 hectares of a Regional Park Zone (RPZ) for an industrial zone. The City and Industrial …

New Delhi
On August 1, the agencies constructing Commonwealth Games venues are supposed to hand over the finished stadia, Games Village and other sites to the Organizing Committee, which will then start crucial overlay work to …

The dilemma faced by Maharashtra government on whether to grant FSI of 3 for reconstruction of old and dilapidated buildings has virtually stalled the redevelopment of these buildings in Mumbai.
In 2009, former CM Vilasrao Deshmukh …