Tax Concession on spare parts of environment friendly vehicles extended till Mar 2015.
There are some flyovers, JNNURM logo-bearing buses and terribly designed housing for the poor. That's it.
The prime minister said the success of JNNURM was critical to tackling the problems that go with rapid urbanisation. Singh said the Centre has committed substantial funds for urban renewal along with the states and urban local bodies.
The gap between promise and achievement in JNNURM is enormous.
Acute shortage of labour and migration towards social schemes like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), a large number of construction projects are lagging behind their completion schedules.
The government is planning to develop two 'smart' cities with a host of modern features like intelligent transport and carbon neutral status in each of the states in the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal mission.
At present, 63 cities are covered under JNNURM, which was launched in 2005 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to improve the quality of life and infrastructure in cities.
This is the second such initiative for urban reforms after the successful implementation of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission launched in FY06.
A fresh $1-billion (nearly 4,600-crore) loan from the World Bank under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), to be routed through the Union government, would be linked to cities adopting certain efficiency parameters.
The Maharashtra government on Thursday repealed the three-decade-old Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act (ULCRA) at its Assembly session in Nagpur. The repeal, done after months of delay and debate, could free up as much as 500 hectares (1,234 acres) of land available for development, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said.
According to industry sources, states are yet to clear their previous dues of Rs 2,000 crore.
The government is considering awarding a grant from the funds of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission to meet a funding gap in the Mumbai metro project's first corridor that is being built by the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
Last week, the Central Board of Excise and Customs notified that a service tax of 10 per cent would be levied on the gross value of a housing property under construction from July 1.
During the last few years, Mysore has been witnessing unprecedented growth in real estate, with a large number of housing co-operative societies having secured land for development of residential colonies.
The state government will soon appoint consultants to prepare the feasibility report for the project.
"It is completely false. I don't know what is the basis of this. I am not a candidate. This is some speculative thing in the New York Times," Ahluwalia said.
Modi govt pushed very hard the concept of smart cities in 2014.
It said 33,510 slums were estimated to be in the urban areas of the country of which 41 per cent were notified.
Career bureaucrat Anil Baijal was on Wednesday appointed as the new Lt Governor of Delhi, a post which has fallen vacant after sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung.
Of the 538 projects examined, 294 suffered from cost overruns, 303 from time overruns, and 166 projects suffered both time as well as cost overruns.
"We all know these problems. We will sit together and work to solve them," he said.
A parliamentary panel has noted that Yamuna river seems "dirtier" than before despite Rs 6,500 crore having been spent on its clean-up even as a project to lay interceptor sewers along the three major drains of Delhi suffers delays.
The government will give a final shape to its proposed flagship scheme on developing '100 smart cities' next month.
It is for the first time in the history of Independent India that not a single Muslim is part of the Union Cabinet.
The move is aimed at reflecting the diversity of India and highlighting the contribution of prominent personalities.
The Centre will grant Rs 500 crore for each of the smart cities.
100 smart cities to become a reality as Cabinet approves the project, earmarks Rs 100 trillion for the purpose.
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Chairman Anand Mahindra spoke to Business Standard on affordable housing.
There are some 20-odd schemes with this default provision, or something close to it.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday registered eight more preliminary enquiries in connection with issues related to intercepted phone calls of lobbyist Niira Radia against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, Reliance Industries Limited and others in separate cases.
Right now the challenge before the government is to double the speed of construction in order to complete the remaining 6.6 million houses before March 2019.
Smart cities must be very well equipped with technology and security systems alike.
Sensex hit a record high of 27,225.85 and Nifty hit a record high of 8,141.90 in the intra-day trades today.
With nearly a million identified slums, UP urgently requires housing for the poor
'Why do politicians ask for votes if they cannot rehabilitate us? Where do we go -- to the footpath?'
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