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How Model Tenancy Act 2019 helps the country’s housing rental policy
watchdog The Model Act, as per the draft, proposes to establish a Rent Authority to regulate the renting processThe draft Model Tenancy Act 2019 plans to pick up where the Rent Control Act left off. The Rent Control Act, in the long run, had created more problems than it solved. Often referred to as a Draconian law, the Rent Control Act was deemed as one-sided, one that failed to protect the interests of landlords, thereby, not allowing rental housing to thrive in India.Today, on the back of bur...
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DDA to allow pvt players to buy land for housing
Agency to auction land parcels earmarked for group housing› We are planning to carry out the pilot project in Rohini and later implement it in Dwarka, Narela and other places where we have large land parcels earmarked for housing SUBU R, commissioner, (land disposal, DDANEW DELHI : The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has decided to auction land for residential projects to private developers for the first time, in an attempt to meet growing demand for housing in the national capital at a time...
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Unauthorised colony residents to soon get ownership: Kejriwal
July 19, 2019UNAUTHORISED COLONIES CM says Centre conveyed ‘positive response’ to govt proposal NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday that residents of unauthorised colonies in Delhi will soon get ownership of their properties, hinting at a possible resolution of a politically sensitive issue that has dragged on for over a decade. The move involves legal approval from the Union government, which the chief minister said was expected “very soon” since the centr...
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North MCD proposes amnesty for illegal residential alterations
NEW DELHI: The North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday proposed an amnesty scheme that will allow people to retain unauthorised alterations to their homes, such as balcony extensions and new parapets, by paying a penalty. The alterations will be allowed as long as they fall within the footprint of the plot and does not exceed the new, revised floor-area ratios (FAR). For plots up to 100 sq meters in residential areas, the FAR will be increased from 350 to 400, and the maximum ground cov...
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