Plot / Land for Sale in Durgapur Central Durgapur

For a country like India where population and inflation have faded common man's dream of owning a home, few government-sponsored housing schemes are a big respite. The Central government in India is running a number of housing schemes to provide shelter and basic amenities to the homeless poor in urban and rural areas. Check out a few popular housing schemes and policies.

The Uttar Pradesh government has approved various proposals submitted by shortlisted builders for different packages of the expressway. These projects will be implemented in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model. The expressway will be constructed between capital Lucknow and Ghazipur connecting interior and semi-developed towns of the state.

India is home to as many as 101 billionaires, making it the fourth highest number in the world. Most of these super-rich personalities own some expensive properties, which of course come with all the luxuries of the world, and have a jaw-dropping price tag. Here we list seven such billionaire homes in India.

A recent report published by Greenpeace India listed 280 Indian cities ranked according to their particulate matter (PM10) levels. Among many cities in north India which have dangerously high PM10 levels, the national capital was at the top spot. Hassan in Karnataka has consistently appeared among the least polluted cities in India with a PM10 level of 26 microgram per cubic metre (µg/m3). Few cities in Kerala, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal, Meghalaya and Chhattisgarh managed to scrape through with PM10 levels lower than the annual permissible concentration of 60 µg/m3 set under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

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.