NEW DELHI: A forest department notice regarding eviction of several large JJ clusters from the reserve forest area in Southern Ridge has rattled the residents of several settlements, who claim they have been living there for over 30 years and will have nowhere to go. In compliance with an NGT order, the notice, sent in […]
The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) has plans to hike land allotment rates in urban areas, said sources on Friday. The proposal to hike the rates will be discussed and approved in a board meeting to be conducted by Yeida on April 26. The meeting will be chaired by Uttar Pradesh additional chief secretary […]
Edifice Engineering, the private firm contracted to demolish Supertech’s 32-storeyed twin towers—Apex and Ceyane—in Noida, has started covering some of the floors with pieces of white cloth to ready them. Officials of the company said that the floors are covered beforehand as an additional security layer. There are about 10 floors in each building where […]
Industry owners of Manesar and Dharuhera on Thursday said they have been facing long power cuts for over a month now, resulting in production and supply loss. Members of the Industrial Model Township (IMT) Manesar Industrial Association on Thursday also met Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and apprised him of their situation. Officials of […]
NEW DELHI: Embassy Group has leased out 85,000 sq ft of office space in Embassy Taurus TechZone, Trivandrum to Acsia Technologies.Aditya Virwani, chief operating officer, Embassy Group, said, “While the omicron variant created some short-term hurdles, this is a testament to how demand for grade-A office spaces hasn’t been diminished by Covid-19 in the least. […]
GURUGRAM: Instead of a single-point connection, discoms in the state are considering giving individual connections to each residence in housing clusters such as highrise societies, officials said on Sunday. The move, they said, will ensure that every flat owner gets a separate electricity connection. This could potentially lower the tariffs paid by households by bringing […]
The operations of Delhi’s three civic bodies were unchanged on Tuesday, after President Ram Nath Kovind’s assent and the Centre’s notification of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Amendment Act, 2022 (which paves the way for the unification of the three civic bodies municipal corporations), with senior functionaries clarifying that the Union home ministry will issue a […]
The Noida authority is set to introduce a residential plot scheme next month for residents who plan to build individual bungalows or villas. It will offer at least 500 plots from the well-developed sectors, sources said. The authority has readied 250 plots measuring 112 square metres (sqm) to 400sqm in Sector 151, adjacent to the […]
The construction of a key 1.5-kilometre internal road linking Golf Course Road (GCR) with Huda City Centre (HCC)-Golf Course Extension Road (GCER) will start within the next two weeks, said officials of Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) on Saturday. The MCG’s finance and contract committee (F&CC) approved a ₹1.32 crore tender allotment of the project […]
More than 30 years ago when Yogendra Narain was given the task to build Greater Noida, he set up his makeshift chamber — a small room with a sofa — in Noida authority’s head office. The year was 1991 and his brief was to plan a modern city with the best amenities for residents and […]
The department of town and country planning (DTCP) on Saturday released a fresh draft of structural safety guidelines to ensure that the design and structure of and material used in high-rise buildings meets the prescribed standards and building code specified by the government. According to the DTCP, the new guidelines aim to plug the gaps […]
Rattled by the collapse of multiple floors at the Chintels Paradiso housing complex in Gurugram Sector 109 on February 10, residents of Fresco Apartments in Sector 50, where chunks of bricks and plaster are allegedly falling from the building, have taken it upon themselves to collect money and get the facade repaired to avoid meeting […]
