Progressive

In 2008-09, when the PCMC had allowed online tax payment for the first time, only 2.06 per cent of the populace had used it to pay their property taxes. Today, over 34.6 per cent people use this payment mode.

A woman’s husband’s ancestral property, which he is expected to inherit in future remains out of the settlement, and so does his self-acquired property. It is only a joint property that a woman could claim at the time of divorce. That, too, could be quite mind-boggling a process.

India has provided more than 300 million people with access to clean water in past 15 years, data show. But, it is little reason to cheer as the progress made by India in providing clean water to its citizens notwithstanding, it is still among the nations where it is hard to get water that is fit to consume. Here are some of the recent reports that show the deepening crisis of water in the country.

BDD chawls are all set to be brought down to make way for tall buildings that will rehabilitate over 15,500 families staying in Naigaon, Lower Parel and Worli. While the Naigaon area is being redeveloped by L&T, Shapoorji & Pallonji are working in Lower Parel area and recently Tata Group has been awarded the tender for redeveloping Worli area.

As of July 25, the total number of affordable homes under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) has touched 53.74 lakh homes. The latest addition was about 2.67 lakh homes across 10 Indian states. In the latest round of meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee of the PMAY chaired by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary, Durga Shanker Mishra, Madhya Pradesh was sanctioned 59,421 homes, highest in this round.