If a survey team of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) finds the infrastructure upgrade up to the mark, Sector 54’s Suncity Township could become the first private colony to be taken over by the government body. In a letter written to the MCG, the developer of the township, Essel Group, has said that all deficiencies pertaining to the infrastructure have been fixed. Spread over 141 acre, the township, with 895 plots, is prone to a flood-like situation during the Monsoon.

After a successful launch of the first phase, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is planning to launch the second phase of its housing scheme by February-end. The scheme will have 10,000 one-bedroom flats for economically weaker section (EWS) groups. These apartments will be located at Narela and Bawana. In the first phase, launched earlier in January, around 1,250 1BHK flats, located across Narela, Ramnagar Colony and Seeraspur, were up for sale.

Chennai, one of the top five metro cities in India, has been growing leaps and bounds in terms of both infrastructure and real estate. While Delhi has led the way, Chennai, after Mumbai and Bengaluru, has also got its own Metro rail network. Now, the remaining two stretches of the Phase-I — Washermanpet to Chennai Central and Chennai Central to AG-DMS — have been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 10.

Sushant Lok-1, one of the largest privately developed residential colonies in Gurgaon, may be headed towards a “closure”. Citing a January-8 order of the National Green Tribunal, media reports say the developer of the residential colony that houses over 10,000 families may be asked to close Sushant Lok-1 if it fails to compensate for 10 serious environmental violations. The violations include encroachment of green areas, extraction of ground water without required permission, absence of sewage treatment plants and failure of maintenance of facilities.

The Union transport ministry has cleared a plan to build a 155-km corridor between Akshardham in east Delhi and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The corridor, which will pass through Loni near the Delhi-Ghaziabad border, will decongest the east Delhi areas and allow commuters to reach the Saharanpur-bound National Highway (NH-709B) from the NH-24 directly. Currently, commuters from western Uttar Pradesh have to pass through the areas such as Shastri Park, New Usmanpur, Khajuri Khas and Bhajanpura to reach Saharanpur highway that starts at Loni.