7,500 housing units to be handed over to JNNURM beneficiaries in Nashik before Mar 31, 2017

September 2016

Revenue commissioner Eknath Davle has recently ordered the Nashik city municipal commissioner Abhishek Krishna to hand over 7,500 housing units to th...

Tags: Eknath Davle, Abhishek Krishna, JNNURM, NMC, CIDCO, Nashik West

Rental Housing | A missing link in the housing shortage dilemma?

August 2016

As urbanisation strengthens its foothold in India, the housing shortage problem becomes more prominent. The rural poor flocking to Tier-I cities and ...

Tags: Pankaj Kapoor Urbanisation, MNC, Tier-I cities, Tier-II cities, RCA, Commercial, EWS, LIG, MIG, NDA government, NURHP, PPP, REIT, SPV, JNNURM

V Vinay Chand, Commissioner, Tirupati Municipal Corporation

August 2016

A compact city, Tirupati is relatively dense and a key transit point as one has to travel through the city to reach Tirumala - it witnesses 75,000 to...

Tags: V Vinay Chand, Tirupati Municipal Corporation, Tirupati Urban Development Authority, TUDA, IEC, Swacch Bharat Mission, Supervisory Control, Data Acquisition, SCADA, Sewerage Water, Institute of Technology, IIT, JNNURM, Basic Urban Services for Poor, BUSP

The crux of our smart city proposal is lake redevelopment

July 2016

The third largest city in Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore is a major hub for textiles, industries, commerce, education, IT, healthcare and manufacturing. What...

Tags: Textiles, Manchester of South India, Pump City, Dr K Vijaykarthikeyan, Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, SERAPHINA DSOUZA, SPV, Coimbatore Smart City Ltd, RFP, AMRUT scheme, C&D, JNNURM, BRTS, LPCD, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

The crux of our smart city proposal is lake redevelopment

July 2016

The third largest city in Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore is a major hub for textiles, industries, commerce, education, IT, healthcare and manufacturing. What...

Tags: Textiles, Manchester of South India, Pump City, Dr K Vijaykarthikeyan, Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, SERAPHINA DSOUZA, SPV, Coimbatore Smart City Ltd, RFP, AMRUT scheme, C&D, JNNURM, BRTS, LPCD, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

We will construct around 10,000 housing units in a phased manner

May 2016

Termed as a single revenue source corporation, Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is leaving no stone unturned to fund the city's planned infrastruc...

Tags: LMC, Infrastructure, Udayraj Singh, RAHUL KAMAT, Commercial, Budget, JNNURM, Swachh Bharat, Swachh Bharat Mission, LED, Energy Efficiency Services Scheme of the Central Government, ESCO, Bharwara sewage treatment plant, Smart city, AMRUT Yojna

Augmenting Affordable Housing

April 2016

With ´Housing for All´ a crying need for the country, and a priority for the government, it is time for a multi-pronged strategy that involves the pr...

Tags: Housing for All, Sachin Gulaty, JLL India, Neeraj Bansal, KPMG, Urban Land Ceiling Act, National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, Rajiv Awas Yojana, ULCA, NUHHP, JNNURM, RAY, LIG, EWS

Govt builds 10 lakh houses

April 2016

Around 1,017,423 houses have so far been built for urban poor under different housing schemes such as the 2005-06 Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Miss...

Tags: Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, JNNURM, Rajiv Awas Yojana, Basic Services to the Urban Poor, Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme