Archive for December, 2009
Monday, December 28th, 2009
In a move aimed at ensuring that every Indian family has an LPG connection, the Centre has amended the Gas Control Order under which a household can have only one LPG connection. The Liquefied Petroleum Gas (regulation of supply and distribution) Amendment order 2009 has banned multiple LPG connections in a single household. For instance, if a husband and wife have two connections in their names, then one has to be surrendered. This means two connections per family is not allowed. However, this rule does not apply to one connection having two cylinders.
On their part, Hindustan Petroleum, Indian Oil and Bharat Petroleum have evolved consumer data to detect multiple connections and stop supplies forthwith till they are surrendered. According to Bhushan Narang, president, Bangalore Petroleum Dealers’ Association, the primary objective of the new rule is to ensure that BPL (below poverty line) families are also supplied with LPG connections.
“There are many cases where domestic LPG connections are misused and commercialized too. The target is to make it kerosene-free country once all families have LPG connections.There are thousands waiting in each city for LPG connection. On the other hand, many households have more than one LPG line, blocking new connections,’’ official sources said.
- Supplies would resume only after multiple connections are surrendered THE RULE BOOK
- You have option of converting double LPG connection into double bottle connection (DBC), i.e., one connection having two cylinders.
- LPG connection will be issued only in the name of any adult member of the household by a government oil company under public distribution system
- Customers having more than one LPG connection in their homes must Surrender it before the supply stops.
Tags: amendment of Gas Control Order, Bangalore, lpg connection bangalore, only one LPG connection per household, surrender LPG connection
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
The home buyer is normally a person who wants to set up a family or one who looks around for investment options. With the tax exemptions allowed by the government for repayment of loans and interest paid on loans for purchase of house property/construction of houses, investment in property received a shot in the arm.
As for the one who wants to set up a family, his needs depend normally on the number of members in the family, price quoted for the house and available surplus for repayment of loan. Location and distance from work place, possibility of future expansion and the like come next.
In India, promotion of housing initially came from the government. For the middle and upper middle class, affordability is the key. The increase in income of people during the last 10-15 years due to higher industrial growth, proliferation of software firms etc enabled property buyers to go in for larger and luxurious houses. The global meltdown turned the table upside down and investment in house property has been hit badly. This has led to shift in demand from large or fairly large accommodation to lesser floor space. Another reason might have been the wait for locating accommodation in the city center area.
Improvement in transportation facilities, construction of ring road and peripheral ring road, metro rail etc also factored in. The development of townships in and around the peripheries of cities also shifted the demand from one location to the other. There was a time when small apartments went a begging in Yelahanka, Kengeri, Whitefield and Bannerghatta Road. After the economic slowdown, salaries took a downslide and people thought of various methods to beat the recession.
One major approach has been to go in for lower floor area houses. The city is becoming larger and people need to either move out from the central area or go in for smaller accommodation. In this background, the one-bedroom tenement is perhaps the solution.
Reference:
The Hindu
Tags: 1bhk, affordable home, Apartment, apartment buy-sell, Bangalore, Bangalore East, Buying, home buyers, Housing, indian real estate, market trend, property, property buying, property tax, Real Estate India, recession, Second homes, Tips
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
All that is tagged as useless and worthless is still useable-Christmas tree made out of recycled material
The Christmas tree at the Mar Thoma Church on Primrose Road, named the ‘Peace Tree’is about 30 feet tall and its decorations are all made of waste material.This is probably going to be among the biggest Christmas trees in Bangalore this year, says Roy Varghese, a choir member.The tree took three weeks to complete. Besides discarded material it also has Origami Cranes, a Japanese symbol of long life and good health, as decorations.
Interestingly, choir members sought help from children with mental disabilities from the Marthoma Opportunity School to help create these unique decoration pieces.An initiative taken by the Mar Thoma Church choir “in solidarity with the ongoing world initiative against climate change in Copenhagen’ , this tree they hope will encourage people to think about recycling and conserving waste material.
Using this Christmas symbol to convey a relevant message to devotees who visit the church was an idea proposed by the choir’s secretary Daniel Thomas.”The idea behind using discarded material is to convey the message that all that is tagged as useless and worthless is still useable,” said Roy Varghese, a choir member.
Refer:
A Christmas tree with a difference
Tags: Bangalore, Christmas, christmas tree, christmas tree with a difference, conserve waste material, environment, green, green christmas, mar thoma church, primerose road bangalore, recycled material, recycling, reuse
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
An estimated seven lakh property owners in Bangalore are looking forward to regularization of unauthorized constructions as part of the Akrama-Sakrama scheme approved by the Cabinet on Thursday. However, their hopes of early notification of the scheme may be dashed as it entails amendment of the Town and Country Planning Act.
“Akrama-Sakrama provisions cannot be indefinite because it will encourage unauthorised constructions in future,” said the official.Senior officials of the Urban Development Department said the Legislature, scheduled to meet from December 14, was expected to debate the proposed amendments in the form of a Bill.”A notification can be issued only after the Bill approved by the Legislature is ratified by the Governor,” said an official.
The notification can also be delayed if the State Election Commission announces the calendar of events for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections. In such a case, the scheme can be implemented only after the elections.
Reference:
The Hindu
Tags: akrama, akrama sakrama bangalore, Akrama-Sakrama scheme, Bangalore, Bangalore East, bbmp akrama sakrama scheme, sakrama
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
According to the Palike, the BBMP One centres may issue building plans for structures on 30’ x 40’ and 40’ x 60’ sites in the city. The proposal may also include approval of plans for structures on 50’ x 80’ sites. Palike officials state that the citizens who want building plans approved will be given a pre-determined set of norms that will include the setback and other technicalities involved.
The Palike may also go one step further and provide an option for the people to choose from a BBMP-approved list of more than a 100 architects to design their houses without violating building by-laws.“We will display the norms on the BBMP website for citizens to adhere and ensure that their architects build it within that constraint,” said a Palike official.
On the confusion that may arise because of the name being similar to Bangalore One, the BBMP official said: “We may also include the existing Palike help centres and remodel them in such a manner that it would be placed strategically in the City. There will be no overlapping of services as BBMP One will only concentrate on the core Palike services.”
Tags: approval of plans, Bangalore, Bangalore Property, BBMP One, citizen service center, help centers, Palike, property owners
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
To promote zero-waste management, individuals, NGOs, resident welfare association members and experts gathered on Sunday to discuss new measures. The organizer was Eco Manage Group. The zero-waste management project initiatited in Vellore segregates organic waste into 22 categories; food waste into 8 categories; inorganic waste 33 categories, bottles 122 and non-recyclable into 10 categories.
Some of the other benefits of solid waste management is increase in job opportunities, environmental protection and economic growth. For achieving zero-garbage concept, there is a need for proper coordination between the district administration, local bodies, health department, pollution control board and public.
Participants, in fact, discussed working with the BBMP to segregate waste at the source itself and setting up collection and sorting stations in every 1 sqkm area. Environmentalist Almitra Patel said she’d filed PIL for hygienic solid waste management in 2000, realizing that cities in India had nowhere to dump waste. The result: the ministry of environment and forest issued draft guidelines to manage solid waste.She stressed on the need to adopt zero-garbage concepts to reduce waste going to landfills.
After the success of the pilot zero-garbage zone project, the BBMP will now target ‘segregation at source’ for domestic waste. The only solution to increasing garbage is source segregation.
Very soon there will be strict rule and you will have to do it mandatorily. Palike may fine offenders. The rule is simple. All dry and wet waste need to be dumped in separate bags and handed over to the garbage collectors.
Dry waste will be sent to designated landfills, wet waste will be taken to local compost pits that are being identified. These will be set up on unused public land like corporation schools and playgrounds.
Reference:
The times of India
Tags: dry waste, garbage, segregate waste, solid waste management, wet waste, zero-waste project
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
The government hopes to collect a whopping Rs 5,000 crore as fine from the scheme in Bangalore city alone. Apart from penalty, there will be a substantial increase in the revenues of urban local bodies as all these illegal constructions would come under the tax net from next year.
The revised Akrama-Sakrama scheme, which was approved by the state Cabinet on Thursday, will benefit about seven lakh properties in Bangalore and about five lakh properties in other cities. Stating that the scheme was a one-time opportunity to get building violations regularised, Transport Minister R Ashok said he had recommended to the government not to encourage violations in future and initiate criminal proceedings on both property owners and BBMP officials. He has also recommended setting up of an authority to check violations and encroachments in future.
Former BMP mayor M Ramchandrappa said that the government has failed to take people into confidence before taking a final call on the revision of the Akrama Sakrama scheme. People have been kept in dark and they are not aware of the happenings related to the scheme, he said. However, we need to look into what revisions have been made in the scheme to further comment on this, he added. The government is only fooling people with the scheme. “How would they reduce it to 50 percent, when the scheme itself was never implemented? The new legislature is far from the people’s requirement,he added.
The revised Akrama-Sakrama scheme, which was approved by the state Cabinet on Thursday.The revised Akrama-Sakrama scheme will benefit about seven lakh properties in Bangalore and about five lakh properties in other cities. The government hopes to collect a whopping Rs 5,000 crore as fine from the scheme in Bangalore city alone.Transport Minister R Ashok recommended setting up of an authority to check violations and encroachments in future.He had recommended to initiate criminal proceedings on both property owners and BBMP officials.
Tags: akrama, akrama sakrama bangalore, Akrama-Sakrama scheme, Bangalore, bbmp akrama sakrama scheme, indian real estate, property, Real Estate India, regularization, regularizing unauthorized apartment, sakrama, trend in real estate
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) on Monday recovered land worth over Rs. 30 crore by clearing encroachments that had come up on it in Nagarabhavi 2nd Stage.BDA had notified several survey numbers in Malagala village coming under Nagarabhavi 2nd Stage during 1987.However, 36 tents had come up on the acquired land unauthorisedly in survey No. 55/1 and 56.
All the tents were removed on Monday and land measuring over five acres and 26 guntas (One acre = 40 guntas) was recovered. Layout formation is under progress on the entire acquired land.
During 1987, BDA had notified survey numbers coming under Nagarabhavi 2nd Stage and acquired it for forming layout.36 tents had come up on the acquired land unauthorisedly.All the tents were removed and BDA recovers Rs. 30 crore worth property by clearing encroachments. Layout formation is under progress on the entire acquired land.
Reference
BDA recovers Rs. 30 crore worth property
Tags: Bangalore Property, BDA Bangalore, BDA recovers Rs 30 crore worth property, Malagala village in Nagarabhavi, Nagarabhavi Bangalore, unauthorized property
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