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

City development plan has to take into account the integration process

October 2015

Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India, talks about the Council´s capacity building programmes and issues ranging from technol...

Tags: Pratap Padode, Smart Cities Council India, Union Minister, Venkaiah Naidu, Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, Smart Cities project, CIDCO, PPP, Digital India

States to get 10,000 buses under JnNURM

September 2013

In a major step to improve urban transport in the country, the Union government has started the second round of approvals for sanctioning buses to st...

Tags: Union government, buses, Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, JnNURM

Parama flyover in Kolkata likely to miss Dec deadline

July 2013

In Kolkata, the Park Circus-Parama Island flyover, a crucial project under Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), which was scheduled to be...

Tags: Kolkata, Park Circus-Parama Island flyover, Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority

Govt creates Rs 10 bn fund for local bodies

February 2013

The government decided to create a separate fund of Rs 1,000 crore in order to give a push to capacity building efforts of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs),...

Tags: Urban Local Bodies, Pranab Mukherjee, Rajiv Awas Yojana, Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, National Rural Drinking Water Programme Fund, Infrastructure Debt Funds

Key flyover in Kolkata to be ready by May 2014

December 2012

In Kolkata, one of the major flyover projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has cleared hurdles for a long-pending 600-me...

Tags: Kolkata, flyover, Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, cleared hurdles