Ahmedabad Urban Development Association (Auda) has passed the first affordable housing scheme in the newly declared residential affordable housing (RAH) zone in Khodiyar area, which comes under Town Planning scheme - 60.

The developers, Manubhai Patel Company, have been given permission to construct 53 housing units in the zone. Each house will have a buildup of 63 square meters.

Mumbai: The state government might retain the special planning authority (SPA) status granted to Lavasa with some riders.

Chennai: Proper implementation of green building concepts and use of energy efficient electrical systems in multi-storey buildings will help save power, according to CMDA officials.

With the state reeling under acute power shortage, the adoption of green concepts in building projects is the need of the hour, they averred. “Chief minister J. Jaya­la­lithaa has envisaged use of green building concepts and solar power in large multi-storey buildings (MSBs) to make optimum use of electricity.

The National Green Tribunal has directed Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) and the real estate major DLF to give an undertaking thatthey will notcut trees in Sectors 55-56 of Gurgaon witho

The Ghaziabad Development Authority plans to introduce a project that will enable the agency to track all construction activity in the city through satellite imagery.

Rejected Proposals Can Be Reviewed

Mumbai: Stringent guidelines framed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for the clearance of high-rise proposals in Mumbai can be treated as only advisory in nature, state environment secretary Valsa-Nair Singh has informed the State Environment Appraisal Committee-2 (SEAC-2).
Nair-Singh has told the SEAC-2, which scrutinizes high-rise proposals from Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), that a Bombay high court order of April 10 allows proposals already rejected based on the guidelines to be reconsidered within eight weeks of the order.

Jaipur:The unresolved land acquisition issues between the state and the farmers in the ongoing ring road project have now taken a serious turn. A large number of agitated farmers became violent and pelted stones injuring one operator of an earth moving machine on Wednesday.

The incident occurred near the Khetapura village where the earth moving machines were reportedly working on the project site. Circle inspector Nawab Khan of Shivdaspura station said, “Around 200 villagers, including women, violently protested during their work. When they pelted stones, wind shields of three earth moving machines were broken. The workers also received minor injuries after they were manhandled.”

KOCHI: The Chennai bench of the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday dismissed a petition which challenged decisions, including industrial area notification for the proposed Aranmula airport project