Archive for October, 2009
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
From November 1 rain water harvesting will be mandatory for new buildings.The recent amendment of the BWSSB Act that’s made rain water harvesting mandatory for new and bigger old buildings could bring about a change. Provided, citizens understand the law, get the system installed and also trained in handling it.
People need professional help to design a system complying with the law. They also need trained plumbers and masons as well as money to invest in the structure. Some plumbers and masons well versed in this are listed on the BWSSB website.
Rain water if captured can generate water equivalent to 3000 MLD, almost double the current demand. It can also reduce the massive problem of flooding in Bangalore to a great extent, say experts.Depending on design, orientation and catchment area of the house, you could pay between Rs 8,000 and Rs 75,000 to set up the system.
If you don’t have an RWH unit, your water and sanitary connections could be cut. However, there are rewards for installing one. After an assessment by the BWSSB in January 2010, five houses will be selected and rewarded Rs 10,000 each.
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Making rain water harvesting mandatory
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Until now, any building with a height of 15 meters or more (ground plus four floors) was classified a highrise.The new zonal regulations have increased the threshold to 24 meters (ground plus eight floors).
The BDA’s Masterplan 2015 has increased the threshold to 24 metres. For this, you don’t need to get an NOC from the fire force department. Even two years after the Karnataka government’s nod, the go-vertical plan is mired in a bickering among the BDA, fire and emergency services department and BBMP.
But Fire force department has written to the BDA commissioner that the height relaxation is illegal. According to them, any building beyond 15 meters should obtain an NOC.
The Masterplan gave a relaxation — buildings up to 24 metres needn’t obtain an NoC from the fire department and pollution control board. But the builder has to incorporate the fire-safety norms, architect should submit an affidavit confirming the structure has adhered to fire-safety norms.
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Tiff stops Bangalore’s vertical growth
Tags: Apartment, Apartment India, Bangalore, bbmp, BDA masterplan 2015, building height for highrise, Housing, indian real estate, New zonal regulations, property, Real Estate India
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
‘Hasiru Sante’ was organized in Malleswaram in order to spread awareness on importance of planting saplings.The “Sante” was held opposite Sankey Tank on Sunday October 25. The “Hasiru Sante” was a step towards creating awareness on the importance of greenery in a city.
“Hasiru Sante” was a collaborative effort of the BBMP and 12 resident welfare associations (RWAs) as well as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).The exhibition was initially planned to be held between 6.30 am and 10.30 am. But due to increased demand, it was extended till 7 pm.
The market had been organised keeping medicinal plants and herbs in mind, hoping to spread the awareness about their uses and value.Brochures and pamphlets on how to make the best use of these plants were distributed.In the first hour of the ‘sante’, 10,000 people arrived and purchased over 6,000 plants.
Around 10,000 plants were on sale as a part of “Hasiru Sante”. Tree saplings of pongamia, mahogany and neem were also on sale. Medicinal plants, vegetable carvings, Ikebana and banners were on display at the 15 stalls set up at the venue.
Earlier, the “sante” was inaugurated by Katta Subramanya Naidu, Minister for IT, BT, Excise and BWSSB. The BBMP Commissioner Bharatlal Meena and Malleswaram MLA Ashwath Narayan C.N. were present. A rainwater harvesting stall specially set up for the occasion was appreciated by Mr. Naidu.
Hoping to keep the effort going, the BBMP official said that they were planning to launch a trial website that people could visit if they wanted BBMP to plant medicinal plant saplings in their localities.
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6,000 plants sold in one hour at ‘Hasiru Sante’
Govt sounds a green call
Tags: awareness program, Bangalore, bbmp, exhibition, greenery in the city, hasiru sante, malleswaram, medicinal plant saplings, medicinal plants, planting saplings, sankey tank
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Digging the roads and obstructing traffic for replacement of old pipelines will soon be a thing of past when BWSSB adopts the new ‘pipe blast technique’ and ‘trenchless technique’. A pilot project to assess the economic feasibility and adaptability of the techniques is being carried out near Madhavan Park in Jayanagar, where Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is replacing 366 metres of pipeline. A Mumbai-based private construction company is laying the pipeline at the cost of Rs 25 lakh.
Under the new ‘pipe blast technique’,A pit, two feet wide and four feet long is dug near a manhole the pipeline runs through. A compressor inserted in the pit is used to blast the existing pipeline up to a length of 100 metres.The debris is cleared off from the next manhole with the help of a metal chain.
This paves the way for inserting a new pipeline, which can even be of a greater diameter. The metal chain has a sensor, which alerts the diameter if some of the rubble is left inside. The ducts that were connected to the old pipelines are reconnected to the new pipeline through a sensor-guided process.If the sensor-guided process turns failure, parallel pipelines are laid from the consumers’ buildings with the help of ‘trenchless technique’.
If this experiment succeeds, BWSSB will adopt it to lay pipelines in most of the busy roads.This is a time-saving technique and need not required to dig the road for replacement of old pipelines.
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BWSSB trick in the pipeline
Tags: Bangalore, bangalore traffic, bbmp bangalore, bwssb, digging road, jayanagar, madhavan park jayanagar, pipe blast technique, replace old piplines
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
FIRE Luxur Developer Pvt. Ltd. announced the launch of Phase 1 of its township ‘The Empyrean’ at Bangalore. FIRE Luxur Developers Pvt. Ltd. is a JV company formed between FIRE (First Indian Real Estate) Capital Fund, a Private Equity Fund focused on Indian Real Estate and The Nilgiris Group of Bangalore, with a project outlay of over USD 350 million.
The Empyrean is located on the outskirts of Bangalore, towards east of Whitefield, away from the congestion of the city. It’s proximity to five existing and upcoming IT Hubs, is expected to make it a preferred destination among the IT/ITeS professionals.
The low rise, low density residential development has multi- housing option including five spacious options of villas with sizes ranging from 2,095 sq ft to 5,500 sq ft, very attractively priced at an average overall price of Rs 2250 per sq ft. All the major amenities are clustered at the centre of the Township, with a Clubhouse, Primary School and Shopping Centre nestled around a Central Park, designed in neighbourhood cluster format providing easy on-foot accessibility for every resident.
The project has already received Environment Clearance from the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Karnataka and the Layout Plan Approval from Department of Town & Country Planning.The Empyrean will be developed as a modern ‘Garden City’, offering a differentiated proposition in a city dotted with frantic real estate growth.This is the third investment in India after ‘Silver Springs’ in Indore and ‘The Empyrean’ in Nagpur.
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fire luxur announces the launch of its township project the empyrean at Bangalore
Tags: Apartment, Bangalore East, environment clearance, fire luxur, garden city, launch of new project, layout plan approval, silver springs, The Empyrean, The Empyrean Bangalore, township project, whitefield
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
The demand for gift cards has increased during the last few months and the festival season witnesses the maximum sale of gift cards. Many companies are also using it to gift their employees. Gift cards may be a useful item to offer to someone you want to please purely for business reasons or please your dear ones.
Gift cards are prepaid cards supported by a magnetic strip that can be used at a number of merchant outlets across the country either for shopping, eating or for other purposes.These cards are also transferable and could be gifted to anyone. These cards can be loaded with any value between Rs 500 and Rs 50,000. Some banks have also given the flexibility of re-loading the gift cards. The card can be used at respective Bank’s ATMs for Balance Enquiry. It also has PIN number, which gives access to Gift Card for online transactions.
The gift cards come at a fee. Banks charge between Rs 50 and Rs 200 to issue gift cards. While the SBI is charging Rs 50, the HDFC Bank asks for Rs 100. There are discounts on the cards for bulk buyers.It’s not just the fee, banks also gain due to the increase in low cost deposits by marketing the cards aggressively.
In the past one week, two major banks — Central Bank and Corporation bank — came out with their gift cards, joining the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and HDFC that already have similar products on offer. Most banks have tied up with payment gateways of Visa and MasterCard for this purpose. While the SBI has tied up with Visa for this purpose, Central Bank of India has done so with MasterCard.
The demand for gift cards has increased during the last few months and the festival season witnesses the maximum sale of gift cards.
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Banks make Gift Cards flavor diwali
Tags: diwali gift, festival season, gift cards, gift cards in india, increase in sale of gift cards, India, prepaid cards
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
The government plans to regularize all unauthorized layouts and housing sites developed before December 31, 2009 as against December 31, 2008. In the run-up to the BBMP polls, the government drastically slashed penalties from 20% to 8% for residential building and 25% to 20% for commercial buildings.
Continuing its efforts to fill its empty coffers and also with an eye on the upcoming BBMP polls, the state government on Wednesday indicated that the Akrama-Sakrama scheme will take a definite shape within a week.The cabinet sub-committee for regularisation of unauthorised constructions decided to issue a notification soon.
Initially, the revenue target was Rs 4,000 crore from this scheme.Now, with the extension of deadline it is likely to earn an additional Rs 1000 crore.The Akrama-Sakrama scheme was originally formulated during former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy’s regime but could not be implemented following strong opposition from people over high penalty rates.The then government had amended the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act to introduce the regularisation as a one-time measure.
Links to refer
apartment-bangalore.com/bank-loans-for-sakrama-penalty
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/New-Akrama-scheme-could-mop-up-Rs-1000-more
www.commonfloor.com/articles
Tags: akrama, Akrama-Sakrama scheme, Apartment, Bangalore, bbmp, bbmp akrama sakrama scheme, karnataka government, property, regularization, regularize unauthorised layouts, sakrama
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has started replacing all water meters that were installed seven years ago with new ones at its own cost. According to source and as per the guidelines of Palghat-based Fluid Control Research Institute, the life of a water meter is seven years after which the parts will get corroded.
The existing Class ‘A’ Single Jet water meters will be replaced by the advanced Class ‘B’ Multi-Jet meters. The existing meter reading is in kiloliters, the new ones will show the exact liters that the family has consumed every day.
Nearly 1.6 lakh domestic consumers are those whose meters had been installed seven years ago. BWSSB will replace all these at a total cost of Rs. 16 crore in a phased manner at its own cost. Nearly 10,000 meters will be replaced every month and it will be a continuous process.The replacement will be free for domestic consumers and Only non-domestic consumers (nearly 60,000) will be charged for the installation of new meters.
The advanced Class ‘B’ Multi-Jet meters will show the exact litres that the family has consumed every day. This will help each family to use water judiciously and help in water conservation.
Tags: Bangalore, Bangalore water supply and sewerage board, bwssb, cost for installing new water meter, know exact liters of water consumed, replace seven year old water meter, replace water metere in bangalore, units of waters consumed, water conservation, water meter
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
As the festival season begins, analysts believe banks and developers will offer attractive schemes to attract home buyers. Activity in the residential property market has increased quite significantly during the last couple of months.Many banks are planning attractive home loan schemes to draw homebuyers during the coming festival season. Therefore, people looking at investing in property can make a serious attempt to get a good property and home loan deal.
As consumer confidence is increasing, the developers are launching many new projects. Analysts believe developers will offer some attractive schemes to attract homebuyers and book as many units as possible. Flexibility of the scheme during the home loan tenure is an aspect that borrowers should look for while selecting the lender. It is important to go through the various terms and conditions of the available schemes and offers carefully. Prospective borrowers should know the various fees/charges that come with the schemes.
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Home loan schemes attractive at festival time
Tags: Apartment, attractive offers for property buyers, Buying, festival season, Housing, Housing India, indian real estate, market trend, property, Real Estate India, residential property, Tips
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Today it is world of cards where you will have credit card, debit card, petro and membership cards. Now property owners in Karnataka will soon have property card which will serve as authentic documents.
When the Karnataka Land Grabbers (Prohibition) Act comes into force soon, it’ll bring in transparency by cleaning up land records. Sources in the revenue department said that, with new rules in place, registration of sale deeds would be replaced with registration of titles. This will be done by introducing the progressive system of property titles and maintenance modeled on the Torrens System. The newly formed task force for eviction of encroachers on government land is also part of it.
The Karnataka Land Revenue Rules provide for a detailed inquiry of urban properties which can be done by the survey department following a procedure of issuing notices, hearing objections, ascertaining documents and finally writing property cards. The property card proposal is currently awaiting presidential assent.
There are about 15 lakh properties under BBMP and still more in the 2,000 sq km of Bangalore Urban district.In Bangalore,survey of property was last undertaken in 1975. It’s estimated that about 150 qualified surveyors would be required to complete the city survey inquiry.Even if a citizen pays Rs 500 to get the highly dependable property card, the cost of the project can be met. The present system of registration of documents can be misused quite often. With new rules in place, registration of sale deeds would be replaced with registration of titles.
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Property cards to fix glitches in records
Tags: Apartment India, bbmp, Housing India, indian real estate, karnataka land grabbers (prohibition) Act, market trend, property, property card in karnataka, property card will serve as authentic documents, Real Estate India, Tips
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