Taller Buildings To Be Encouraged Over Wide Area

Ahmedabad: Raising the floor space index (FSI) by up to 30% across Ahmedabad to create more affordable housing units will be the thrust of the new development plan (DP) likely to be announced on Friday. The plan, which covers 1,772 sq km covering 68 villages, is expected to raise the FSI from the existing 1.2 in R-2 zones — construction of 1,200 sq yards on a plot of 1,000 sq yards — to 1.8, thus paving way for vertical growth on outskirts.

Pune: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the state government was preparing a new legislation to set rules for integrated urbanization.

“Today over 50% of the population in the state lives in urban areas and more villages are merging with urban areas. Urban governance has become challenge in Pune, Mumbai and other cities. With rising population, cities are planning metro, mono rails and the BRTS. There is a need to go for integrated urbanization and the government plans a new legislation to set new rules in this regard” Chavan said.

Phase-I of the Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon Limited (RMGL), a network of 5.1 km connecting Cyber City, National Highway-8 and Sikanderpur Metro station, is expected to become operational in April despite slowdown of work due to extreme cold, said RMGL managing director Sanjiv Rai here on Thursday.

“Due to extreme cold conditions prevailing over the past few weeks, the de-stressing and welding of metro tracks have been delayed for a couple of weeks and work on a one-kilometre stretch is still pending. We also faced labour problems due to cold condition.

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation has allocated Rs 15.5 crore for metro, monorail and high capacity mass transit route (HCMTR) projects in the draft budget for 2013-2014.

The Punjab Government on Thursday has approved the scheme of Transport Sector with an estimated cost of Rs.

JAIPUR: The Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) has decided to take up the construction work for Metro project phase I (B), while operation and maintenance of the Jaipur Metro phase - I has been g

The Metro completed 10 years of operations on Monday with the induction of two eight-coach trains on the Jahangirpuri-HUDA City Centre corridor.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) marked 10 years of Metro operations by inducting the city’s first eight-coach Metro train into service on Monday.