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Urban Renewal

Urban Renewal

Today, 70 per cent of our GDP comes from urban areas while the investment for urban development is only 0.70 per cent. Now, according to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, Indias urban population is projected to increase from 34 crore in 2008 to 59 crore in 2030

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Surat corporation wants govt to clear TP schemes

Surat corporation wants govt to clear TP schemes

Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) requested the state government to clear all its town planning (TP) schemes in a time-bound manner to enable planned development of the city. There are 128 TP schemes for the city of Surat that are on different stages of implementations. Of these, only 28 received the final approval so far and 30 are on preliminary stage. Further, 60 are on sanctioned draft TP scheme stage, 7 on draft submitted to government stage and

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Gujarat govt to clear town planning schemes for Surat

Gujarat govt to clear town planning schemes for Surat

Reports indicate that the Gujarat government has given preliminary approval for 27 town planning schemes in Surat and a final approval would be given soon. The others are in different stages of approval, reports indicate. Reports also indicate that the state government was slow in giving approval for the TP schemes in the city.

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Minister calls for revision of land use norms

Minister calls for revision of land use norms

Union Minister for Housing Ajay Maken stressed on the need to revise the floor surface index and land use norms in large cities, which do not have adequate open land for housing needs. He pointed that the centre cannot give any directive to the state governments in the matter of FSI and land use norms, but in the New Delhi master plan, whic

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Construction chief

Construction chief

Pravin Patel is the Non-Executive Chairman of Patel Engineering. He has grad­uated in Town Planning from USA and also studied Financial Management from the London School of Economics. He is the son of Arjun Patel, one of the initial promoters and has a wide expe­rience of more than 45 years in financial management, town planning, architecture, etc. Under his vision and erudite leadership the company has acquired imm­ense reputation as an engineering company.