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Parekh to head panel on slum redevelopment
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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.
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KSHB to implement projects through PPP
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Kerala Forest and Housing Minister Binoy Viswam today informed the state Assembly that the Kerala State Housing Board (KSHB) was planning to implement its projects through Private-Public Participation (PPP) ventures
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18 per cent grants put to good use Success
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It was dream come true for 36 cobbler families of A.K. Colony in Jedarahalli slum of Rajajinagar V Block when their old dilapidated huts were reconstructed by the erstwhile Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) in 2002.
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Stalin to inaugurate samathuvapuram
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Periyar Memorial Samathuvapuram, fifth one in the district, constructed at a cost of Rs.2.96 crore at Lakshminaickenpatti village near Chinnamanur in Uthamapalyam block is ready for inauguration.
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Scheme for regularisation of water connections soon
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Identifying theft from piped drinking water network as a major chink in cess administration, the State government is shortly coming up with an amnesty scheme for regularisation of illegal water connections in the capital city.
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Piped water yet to reach 40 per cent of area in capital city
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Although volume of daily drinking water supply to Bhubaneswar is almost double of the required, more than 40 per cent of area under capital city is yet to be fully covered with pipe water supply.
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HMDA norms for affordable housing
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The concept of affordable housing has caught the fancy of builders and developers in the wake of slowdown in real estate activities and this is also being seen as only viable aspect in the present crisis situation by the construction industry.
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Stress on quake-resistant buildings
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Delivering a guest lecture at the ‘Star 2009, A thought-sharing Platform for Technocrats,’ renowned earthquake engineer Prof DK Paul laid stress on adhering to the rules for earthquake-resistant and life-saving structures.
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Slum-dwellers face uncertain future
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The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) Harijan Mazdoor Union has expressed serious concern over the slow pace of the ongoing housing project for slum dwellers in Fatasil and Morashali areas.
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Chitradurga residents urged to take water connections from CMC
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Deputy Commissioner Amlan Aditya Biswas has asked city residents to take their own water connections from the Chitradurga City Municipal Council as the Government has stopped installing public taps in the city.
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Irregularities in allocation of IAY houses alleged
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The much-hyped Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) scheme has become a tool of political malpractice and corruption for some elected representatives and a section of the officials of the Panchayat and Rural Development Department of Barpeta district.
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Corporate sector to build 60,000 houses
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Rajya Sabha member and State coordinator for permanent rehabilitation Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that several big players in the corporate sector had come forward to build 60,000 houses in flood-affected villages of the State.
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‘Ease NREGA norms’
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Faced with daunting task of providing shelter to more than half a million victims displaced by recent floods in north Karnataka, the state government will soon urge the Centre to approve construction of houses under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
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Houses for film workers will be built soon: Karunanidhi
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Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi announced on Friday that houses would be constructed for film workers at the earliest.
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Eviction paves way for protest
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In a major eviction drive carried out by the Tamil Nadu Housing Board on Thursday, as many as 300 buildings, mostly houses, were razed at Arumbakkam in the city.
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Plan to construct 200 more houses in Manamelkudi
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Encouraged by its maiden effort earlier, the Habitat for Humanity, India, has planned to construct 200 more houses for the benefit of the shelter-less persons of Manamelkudi, a coastal village about 80 km from here.
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Builders for draft Model Real Estate Act but wary of procedural delays
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The draft Model Real Estate (Regulation of Development) Act, released recently by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, seems to have evoked a mixed response from the realty sector of Chennai.
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NIT student gets award
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An architecture student of the National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode, has won Kerala Government's award for designing the best model of a house that could be constructed at a cost of Rs one lakh.
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New order on premium FSI may have marginal impact on end users
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The recent government order permitting premium FSI in the area falling under Chennai Corporation, 16 municipalities, 20 town panchayats and 214 village panchayats in Chennai, Tiruvallur and Kancheepuram districts is expected to have a marginal impact on end users.
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Interest subvention may give impetus to affordable housing
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The one per cent interest subvention approved recently by the Union Cabinet is expected to provide an impetus to the affordable housing segment in the suburbs.
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BDA urged to collect cess for welfare of construction workers
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The State Labour Commission urged the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) to facilitate collection of cess as per Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Condition of Services) Act from people who are constructing new houses in the capital city.
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State wins Bharat Nirman Award
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Nagaland has won the prestigious Bharat Nirman Award for Rural Housing from The India Today Group for effective implementation of Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY).
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State 'gifts' prime plot in city to babus
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On August 31, the day the election code of conduct was announced, the state government completed some unfinished work in a hurry—it issued orders to allot a prime plot at Kalina to a housing society.
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Monsoon brings inundation woes
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Daily while returning from school, little Shanta looks wistfully at the deep-beige buildings and mumbles to herself, 'Once they are finished, we will vacate our shack and go into one of them.'
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Five drinking water projects inaugurated in Sivasagar subdivision
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Minister of Public Health Engineering, Rihan Daimary recently inaugurated five drinking water projects in Sivasagar sub division.
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