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The consent of the ground floor occupants will not be required to file an application for constructing a lift in a DDA housing society.

A recent decision by the Delhi government, where the Forest Department had allowed the felling of about 17,000 full-grown trees as part of the redevelopment of central government housing projects in south Delhi, has sparked protests from citizens, activists and environmentalists. Although the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has stated that ‘compensatory plantation’ of trees is being carried out in a ratio of 1:10, many environmentalists are not convinced as the saplings planted at a different location cannot substitute the huge tree cover which would be cleared away.

Municipal corporations across the country have realised the power of technology for tackling civic problems. For instance, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) recently became the first municipal corporation to use space technology to address issues such as encroachment of lakes, illegal dumping of garbage, pothole menace, etc. by liaising with ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). The three municipal corporations of Delhi introduced a mobile application to enable users to find locations of public toilets nearby, police stations, metro stations, etc.

About 14 months after the idea to make the stretch between the Indira Gandhi Airport and Dhaula Kuan signal-free was mooted and about two months after Housing Minister Hardeep Singh Puri laid the foundation stone of the project, the National Highways Authority of India would not start the construction work. The Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee recently gave the highways development agency the permission to fell trees as it goes ahead to build infrastructure projects that would rid the always-in-use stretch of its almost-always –existing traffic jams.

Phase-II-and-III of the Barapullah Road will make the commute easier between east and south Delhi. The two-km section would connect the existing stretch of Akshardham-Jawaharlal Nehru to INA Market and Aurobindo Marg in south Delhi, passing through Sewa Nagar Railway Crossing, Kushak drain and Lodhi Colony.