Gujarat floats Rs 700 crore slum redevelopment fund

September 2016

The Gujarat Government has floated a Slum Redevelopment Premium Fund (SRPF) with an initial corpus of Rs 700 crore. This fund from the Central and st...

Tags: Gujarat Government, Slum Redevelopment Premium Fund, Funding affordable housing projects, Central Government, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Vadodara, Ashwani Kumar, FSI, GSFS

Cluster redevelopment scheme extended to Maharashtra suburbs

September 2016

In a major development, the Maharashtra government has extended the redevelopment policy bonanza for old and dilapidated buildings to the suburbs. Un...

Tags: Maharashtra government, FSI, Devendra Fadnavis, Non-buildable plots, Mhada, Cluster redevelopment scheme

New housing policy to come up in Maharashtra

September 2016

The government is all set to announce a new housing policy that plans to provide extra FSI and other physical and financial incentives in an attempt ...

Tags: FSI, BDD chawls, Suburbs, Redevelopment, Reconstruction, Union Government, Infrastructure

BDD chawls to go for redevelopment

September 2016

The 18,000 tenets of the Bombay Development Directorate (BDD) chwals in Mumbai will soon have a new lifestyle as it will be redeveloped. A new sectio...

Tags: Bombay Development Directorate, NM Joshi Marg, MHADA, FSI, MbPT, Cluster Redevelopment Scheme

Mumbai developers face uncertainty over legal issues

August 2016

Due to confusion over new development rules, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will see fewer project launches and land deals in the year ahead. T...

Tags: Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Development Plan, FSI, BMC, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Ramesh Nair, JLL India, Navin Makhija, Wadhwa Group, Real estate

Slum redevelopment by SMC

July 2016

Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) plans to redevelop 13 slum settlements in the city. The corporation will construct at least 4,350 new houses would ...

Tags: SMC, PPP, Anjana, Slum, Multi storeyed houses, FSI, Surat zero slum city

High-rise, compact, and mega cities are the only answer for this world, for the future

July 2016

For this icon, architecture is not a job but a calling. You can see it in every building that bears his unmistakable stamp, the sheer magnificence o...

Tags: Architecture, Hafeez Contractor, CW, SHRIYAL SETHUMADHAVAN, SERAPHINA D SOUZA, MHADA-looking, Affordable homes, FSI, Bombay Heritage Society, Lake Castle, DLF city

High-rise, compact, and mega cities are the only answer for this world, for the future

July 2016

For this icon, architecture is not a job but a calling. You can see it in every building that bears his unmistakable stamp, the sheer magnificence o...

Tags: Architecture, Hafeez Contractor, CW, SHRIYAL SETHUMADHAVAN, SERAPHINA D SOUZA, MHADA-looking, Affordable homes, FSI, Bombay Heritage Society, Lake Castle, DLF city