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Those living in the national capital region had little reason to cheer when Housing Minister Hardeep Singh Puri unveiled the findings of the government’s maiden Ease of Living Survey. The four cities that were included in the survey could not make it to the top-45¬¬ at the index.

After the Supreme Court recently allowed state-run builder National Building Construction Company (NBCC) to take over projects of insolvency-hit real estate major Amrapali, the Haryana Town and Country Planning Department has decided to adopt a similar stance. According to media reports, the department has cancelled the licence of 15 developers who have been building residential and commercial projects spread across Gurgaon, Faridabad, Hisar and Katnal.

States are now making a move towards smart electricity meters. After Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy, R K Singh said that all the traditional meters will be replaced by smart prepaid meters in the next three years, the Manohar Lal Khattar-led Haryana government approved the installation of 10 lakh such meters in five districts of the state. So what are smart meters and how will they be beneficial for you. Read here.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has become the first civic body in India to generate solar power energy and earn Rs 9.69 lakh in just three months by exporting surplus power to a power distribution company. Acoording to the data presented by the SDMC, around 3.14 lakh units have been generated by the solar panels while 1.14 lakh units were internally consumed, rest of it has been fed back to the grid.

Early this year, the Centre launched the Liveability Index, which is meant to rank 116 cities on the basis of the living standards they provide to their citizens. How these cities perform on this index would be known only in June. Among the cities that have made it to the list is Gurgaon, where authorities are busy making plans to ensure the city gets a good ranking.