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Godrej Properties concentrating on redevelopment segment

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

At present, redevelopment of properties is the “in thing” in real estate sector. One of the top realty player, Godrej Properties has planned to expand its project portfolio in the redevelopment segment. In context with same GPL Managing Director and CEO Pirjsha Godrej says, that in order to increase the availability of housing in Mumbai, [...]

Get up early to store water!

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Chandigarh residents have to follow the quote- ‘Early to bed, early to rise‘ very soon! With the summer setting in resulting in shortage of water, municipal corporation is about to cease afternoon supply of water. Due to which, residents of multi storied apartments in Chandigarh have to get up as early as 4 am and [...]

HDFC to drop down home loan rates

Monday, April 9th, 2012

The Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) banking sector is on a pace of dropping down the interest rates of home loans. It all depends on Reserve Bank of India (RBI). If RBI goes for a dip down in interest rates, HDFC is sure to follow up the same with home loan categories. In concern with [...]

Chandigarh residents to know their sanitation staff

Friday, April 6th, 2012

After a few days, residents in Chandigarh will be able to know the sanitation staff of their locality. The local municipal corporation has taken this initiative of displaying the residence proof and other details of the workers of a particular locality to the residents. As this initiative is implemented, the number of safai karamcharis who [...]

Plot rates sky rocketing in Panchkula

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

The prices of real estate properties at Chandigarh in Panchkula is sky-rocketing. Buying a plot has become a distant dream for a common man in Panchkula. This real estate scenario had sometime diverted common people’s mind to forcibly get adjusted to apartment culture. However, in recent times the prices of apartments in Chandigarh comes only [...]

MCG cannot be blamed for poor civic works

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Only 37 percent of total budget has been utilized by Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) since previous three years. The local civic body was notified in year 2008, however it was incomplete till the 2011 May elections. Also, during year 2005 the second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) was set up to achieve accountable, efficient, proactive [...]

New initiative on garbage disposal in Chandigarh

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Civic body of Chandigarh has taken a new initiative for a cleaner city. Keeping more hygiene in mind, they have come up with plan of taking garbage directly to the garbage processing unit from each household then throwing it in “sehaj safai kendras” (SSK). This new plan will be initiated from Sector 22 from April [...]

Garbage dump to be shifted in Chandigarh

Monday, March 19th, 2012

The Chandigarh city has been following other cities, the Chandigarh civic body has therefore decided to carry on collect garbage from the residents directly. This door to door garbage collection at present has been taken up as a pilot project. It has been learnt that all the private contractors lift garbage from the residential areas [...]

Rental prices costliest in Jaipur!

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

House rental prices hitting sky high is right now the talk of an hour! The metropolitan cities in India are witnessing rapidly fluctuating rental prices. However, what comes as a surprising news is that the stable high priced rental surviving in Jaipur. Jaipur, well known as the pink city is no less in rental prices [...]

Road plan to change in Chandigarh

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

The traffic police department in Chandigarh has decided to convert many of the city roads into one-way. The one-way plan is still under plan and procedure and very soon the police department has promised to implement the same at the earliest! At first the one-way road will be implemented near Sector 15 on trial basis [...]