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One year of housing for all: At this pace, it’s indeed a dream by 2022 -Shalini Nair

-The Indian Express Housing activists say that a heavy reliance on private sector is the prime reason for poor pace of implementation of the PMAY New Delhi: A year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) with the stated purpose of constructing two crore houses for the urban poor by 2022—at the rate of 30 lakh houses per year— merely 1,623 houses have been constructed so far. The...

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Builders may have to pay 11% interest on delayed projects -Prabhakar Sinha

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Developers may have to pay 11.2 per cent interest to buyers for delay in handing over apartments and homes, according to draft rules unveiled by the government, a step seen as bringing relief to homebuyers reeling under the impact of delayed projects and mounting loan liabilities. The rules also say projects without a completion certificate will have to register with the Real Estate Regulatory Authority, to...

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The culling fields -TR Shankar Raman

-The Hindu A better approach to man-wildlife conflict management requires an integration of scientific evidence, animal behaviour, and landscape and socio-economic context The difference of views on the killing of wild animals between a former and a sitting Environment Minister of the ruling party — one in favour, the other against — has hit the front pages. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change recently permitted three States, Uttarakhand, Bihar, and...

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Mid-day meal and housing schemes might get a facelift -Mayank Mishra

-Business Standard A recent report suggests different ways to eliminate poverty and argues that accelerated growth is the most suitable medicine to reduce incidence of poverty Adding some and modifying some others is how the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is planning to go about its welfare programmes in the coming days. While the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) is likely to be extended to some private schools, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural...

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‘No profiteering at the cost of farmer’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu Land should be given back if the project does not take off: SC New Delhi: Even as several prominent private builders have come under suspicion for delayed completion of Housing Projects, the Supreme Court has declared land a “scarce natural resource” and forbidden the government from using its powers of compulsory land acquisition to strip poor farmers of their livelihood only to transfer such land to private builders to feed...

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