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New State-Level Housing Regulatory Authority Soon

Gandhinagar: TheGujarat government is expected to announce an affordable housing policy during the forthcoming budget session of the assembly. Officials of the state’s urban development department, revenue department and finance department are burning the midnight oil to give final shape to the ambitious plan, which was a poll promise made by chief minister Narendra Modi in the run up to the December assembly polls.

CM promises quality power supply to rural, urban areas

The Karnataka government will soon come out with a new housing policy to ensure that people from lower and middle income groups will have houses of their own, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar informed the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. Replying to the discussion on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address, Shettar said the government will unveil an “affordable housing scheme” soon.
He said the government had given priority to housing for the poor during the last five years. It had constructed 55,000 houses for the people of North Karnataka, who were affected by severe floods in 2009, he added.

AHMEDABAD: When the state urban housing and urban development department offered the much-awaited concessions in FSI rates for affordable houses along SP Ring Road on Monday it clearly spelt out th