Posts Tagged ‘Other City’

HC halts construction around Sukhna

Jolt for Tata’s Camelot project, others as court moves to save Chandigarh’s skyline Tata Camelot’s ambitious plan to raise skyscrapers in the vicinity of Sukhna Lake has run into another legal hurdle. Taking up the Save Sukhna case, a Division Be…

SC order hits HUDA project, investors

Chandigarh: pinjore-kalka urban complex DLF stalls the ongoing construction at the site, Ireo stops demarcation of land. The fate of hundreds of people who have invested their hard-earned money in the Pinjore-Kalka Urban Complex hang in the balance, as…

Haryana’s land acquisition policy: BJP urges probe by SC judge or division bench

CHANDIGARH: Terming the observations made by the Supreme Court against the land acquisition for the Pinjore-Kalka urban complex as a mirror shown to the Haryana government, the BJP on Tuesday sought a judicial probe by a sitting judge or division of Ap…

10-yr ban must on re-sale of land: HP ‘benami’ panel

Shimla: A commission appointed by the Himachal Pradesh government has recommended that it ban for 10 years the re-sale of any commercial land by original buyers. The one-man commission of Justice (retd) DP Sood set up by the state government to probe ?…

HUDA’s Pinjore-Kalka land acquisition deserves to be quashed

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that the land acquisition by Haryana Urban Development Authority’s (HUDA) for Pinjore-Kalka Urban Complex project was “prima facie” illegal as it benefited private builders under the guise of publ…

SC: Quash land acquisition for Pinjore-Kalka project

Pointing out serious irregularities in the implementation of the Pinjore-Kalka Urban Complex project of the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), the Supreme Court has ruled that it was “prima facie of the view that the entire (land) acquisitio…

Master Plan not ready, planning buried under structures

Chandigarh: Two years after the first meeting of the Master Plan Committee, the completion of the plan is still awaited even as the construction activity, especially in the peripheral areas, continues unabated. Due to the Master Plan not having been fi…

Allow resale of commercial land only in rare cases: Commission

SHIMLA: Resale of commercial land in Himachal Pradesh, purchased after special permission, should be allowed in rarest of rare cases. And in case the land is not used for which it was meant, the property vests with the government, says a commission app…

Punjab sets 15 day deadline for every land mutation

Chandigarh: The Punjab Government today took a major initiative to make the working of Revenue Department transparent and people friendly by setting a deadline of a maximum 15 days for any land mutation. In strict instructions issued by Bikram Singh Ma…

Nayagaon land scam: Punjab government given three-day deadline to respond

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has given three-day time to the Punjab government to respond to whether the probe pertaining to alleged illegal properties owned by higher-ups in the periphery be handed over to a one-member commission of i…