Naidu stresses on need to promote alternative construction technologies

October 2016

To meet the housing demand in the country, M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Minister, has pitched for promoting a...

Tags: M Venkaiah Naidu, HUPA, Promoting alternative technologies, Construction, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Rao Inderjit Singh, Rao Inderjit Singh, Ministry of Defence, Nandita Chatterjee

PVC pipes and fittings at subsidised rates to affordable housing schemes by Finolex Industries

September 2016

Finolex Industries, one of India’s largest PVC pipes and fittings manufacturer, has announced that it will support the Prime Minister vision of ‘Hous...

Tags: Finolex Industries, PVC pipes, Fittings manufacturer, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, ECGC, CREDAI, Prakash Chhabria, Urbanisation, Nitin Kulkarni

Rs.16,641 cr investment in affordable housing

August 2016

The Central government has approved an additional investment of Rs.16,641 crore for affordable housing for construction of 2,44,267 houses for urban ...

Tags: Investment, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Urban poor, Construction, Affordable housing

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

Waking up to New Demand

February 2016

The demand for crawler dozers is expected to be driven by the various government-sponsored infrastructure projects coming up in the country, and the ...

Tags: Crawler Dozers, Infrastructure Projects, Highways, Metro, Akash Shukla, Construction Equipment, Clean India project, Caterpillar, GMMCO, Tractors India Ltd, NBFCs, Roll Over Protection Structure, Falling Object Protection System, Make in India, Bharat Mala

Opportunities Galore

December 2015

The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) or Housing for All by 2022, launched on the 25th of June 2015, is a highly ambitious programme. As the name sug...

Tags: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Housing for All by 2022, EWS, LIG, Speed of urban infrastructure, Haphazard urban planning, High construction, Draft Housing Policy of Andhra Pradesh, FAR, Saad Shaikh, ValueNotes Strategic Intelligence, Rohit Bhamburkar