Properties in Lal Kuan Ghaziabad

After a meeting which was attended by real estate developers active in the City of Malls on April 12 in Chandigarh, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said his government had divided the city into four zones to carry out the development work to achieve that specific target.  The move, the CM claims, has benefited the city -- various projects are under the final stages of completion.

The National Capital Region Transport Corporation is planning to link the Delhi Metro with high-speed railway network that will bring down the travel time between the national capital and the cities that fall under the NCR. The project, which is estimated to cost Rs 1 lakh crore, is expected to cater to over 20 lakh commuters daily. The completion deadline for the project is yet to be finalised.

During a hearing on April 16, Jaypee Infratech had said that its valuation has been slashed drastically and had put forth an affidavit to the Supreme Court stating that with the help of interim funds, it can finish the flats. However, this proposal has been rejected by the apex court as the statute bars an ailing company to bid. Jaypee says that its representation should have been considered given that it had been completing 500 units every month.

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.

In a move that is likely to help authorities meet the twin objectives of generating more revenues and equalising the differences in rates in various sectors, the Gurgaon district administration has hiked circle rates by up to 20 per cent, for the second time in two months. The revised circle rates come into effect from April 9. It was on February 12 when circles rates were revised in Gurgaon after a gap of four years.