-The Times of India BENGALURU: Reiterating that the city is becoming an urban jungle, experts on Saturday estimated that nearly 95% of the city will be just concrete if the unchecked urbanisation was allowed to continue. Experts debated a host of issues, ranging from depleting green cover and poor solid waste management to inability of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) Act in solving problems. At least 500 people representing various residents'...
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What the new Coastal Regulation Zone draft says, how it differs from the earlier version -Sowmiya Ashok
-The Indian Express The new draft if implemented will not only have an effect on how common areas used by fisherfolk are managed, but also bifurcate coastal zones along rural areas based on population density. New Delhi: The draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), 2018, which was released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) last week, has the potential to change the way coastal stretches in India are governed. India’s...
More »India's new wetland rules threaten to destroy 65% of its water bodies rather than protect them -Nityanand Jayaraman
-Scroll.in Notified in September, the rules will facilitate the development of wetlands as real estate, industrial sites and garbage dump After ignoring repeated directions from the Supreme Court to notify stricter rules to protect the country’s wetlands, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has gone and done just the opposite. On September 26, it published the Wetlands (Conservation & Management) Rules, 2017 – replacing the older rules dating back to...
More »Despite RERA, Centre and states not doing enough to protect home buyers -Manish
-Hindustan Times The central government has extolled RERA as a panacea for exploitation of home buyers with the establishment of an independent authority in each state. But its own actions in the Capital reflect poorly on the objective The Real Estate (Regulation) Act, 2016, the flagship legislation to protect home buyers, has come into force, but its implementation on the ground continues to lag, with the central and state governments equally lax...
More »Developers in quandary as states not ready with Rera rules -Prabhakar Sinha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Real estate developers across the country are in a quandary as the Centre has stopped them from marketing ongoing projects yet to be registered with their respective state's Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Rera), and most state governments are neither ready with rules under the new Act, nor have they created the authorities. In a written clarification to the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), the Union...
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