Mumbai In a relief for textile major Bombay Dyeing, the Bombay High Court on Monday stayed a stop-work notice issued by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to it for redeveloping mill lands. With the stay on the notice, the textile major can now resume construction activities on its two sprawling mill plots in the city.
Yamunanagar: The Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme, a Central government scheme, has brought a new hope for slum dwellers living in unhygienic conditions and deprived of basic amenities in the district.
A high-level meeting was held under the chairmanship of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here Tuesday to review the pace of low-cost housing project.
The Chief Minister said that provision of shelter to homeless people was the priority of the present government and low-cost housing schemes were being started for low-income people of the province.
NEW DELHI: The Union government has set up an independent eight-member expert committee to review the draft guidelines of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a housing scheme for slum dwellers and urban poor.
The government has decided to refer the draft guidelines of its ambitious Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a scheme to make India slum-free, to an independent panel. The eight-member expert panel, headed by HDFC Bank chairman Deepak Parekh, has been asked to give its recommendations within a month from its first meeting.
Delhi Government has prepared a list of 44 JJ clusters which would be relocated during Commonwealth Games 2010 under its ambitious Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojna. The locations of the slum clusters are bound to cause political tremor as it would the voters' politics of several constituencies.
