The state revenue department notified fresh guidelines to allow direct purchase of land.

Govt considering per tree fee to replace prior permission, also plans to exempt MSMEs from seeking nod to draw water up to a certain limit from dams.

The Centre has decided to fund 90 per cent of the project cost for a river interlinking project involving Maharashtra and Gujarat.

After extending legal cover to all slums that came up prior to January 1, 2000, the Congress-led Democratic Front government has now legitimised occupants of protected slum homes till 2013.

In a notification issued by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan-led Urban Development (UD) department on March 3, the government has said “it intends to rehabilitate slum-dwellers who have been residing continuously for at least one year in protected slum structures.”