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J&K metro rail projects in final stage of approval: Hardeep Singh Puri

Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said the proposals for metro rail projects in Jammu and Srinagar cities are in final stage of approval from the Public Investment Board. Addressing Jammu & Kashmir Real Estate Summit here, Puri urged the UT government to organise an annual summit like World Economic Forum at Davos, in J&K and assured full support from the Centre. The minister highlighted that metro projects will soon be a reality in J&K. "Metro projects are in final stage of PIB approval," Puri said. He further said the Centre would consider the demand to extend the metro projects to the proposed AIIMS hospital outside Jammu. He complimented the J&K government for implementing the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) law and also Model Tenancy Act, circulated by the Centre to all states and UTs. He also praised the UT government for implementation of Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY) under which nearly 13,000 houses have been .

PM to launch Swacchh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0 on October 1, says official

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Swacchh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0 on October 1, a senior official in the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said on Friday

Atmanirbhar India only possible if cities become productive, says Puri

Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said that an 'Atmanirbhar India' will only be possible if cities become "productive", according to an official statement

Zomato inks pact with MoHUA to onboard 300 street vendors

Zomato on Friday said it has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to onboard 300 food street vendors on its platform

Budget: Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry allocated Rs 54,581 crore

The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry was allocated Rs 54,581 crore for the next fiscal

Commerce, urban affairs ministries to work on logistics planning in cities

The move is aimed at promoting ease of doing business in the country

Indian Bank inks MoU with housing ministry, SIDBI for street vendors

Public sector Indian Bank has signed a MoU with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and with SIDBI for payment of subsidy to street vendors under the Centre's SVANidhi Scheme.

Urban affairs ministry partners Swiggy to take street vendors online

To run a pilot by on-boarding 250 vendors across five cities

Housing & Urban Affairs Ministry celebrates 6 yrs of Swachh Bharat Mission

The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry celebrated the achievements under the Swachh Bharat Mission in the past six years on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on Friday. Speaking at a webinar titled 'Swachhata Ke 6 Saal, Bemisaal', Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, "When SBM-U was launched in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it was with the vision of achieving 'Clean India' by October 2, 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation." "Today, I feel immensely proud, as well as humbled, to see how every citizen of urban India has come together to make that dream a tangible reality. "This spirit of Jan Andolan and Jan Bhagidari the power of collective action and leveraging a healthy spirit of competition is exemplified by the Swachh Survekshan, the annual cleanliness survey of MoHUA," the Housing and Urban Affairs minister said in a statement. The minister said that in Swachh Survekdhan 2020, over 12 crore citizens have participated. "We will need to f

NCR Planning Board released Rs 12,441 cr loan for projects till Sep 27: HUA

The National Capital Region Planning Board has released a loan amount of Rs 12,441 crore for various infrastructure development projects till September 27, the housing and urban affairs ministry said

Focus on 100% source segregation, waste processing: Housing Affairs Min

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra asked the states on Thursday to focus on 100-per-cent source segregation and waste processing, according to a statement. Mishra reviewed the progress of the Centre's schemes -- Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Smart City Mission and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) -- in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. During an interaction with officials of the two states, the secretary emphasised that100-per-cent source segregation and waste processing should be the focus and home composting encouraged by the states, the statement stated. He said sustainable models like the construction and demolition (C&D) waste should be installed. "During the review, Himachal Pradesh was requested to ensure 100 per cent progress with regard to construction of toilets in all the ULBs (urban local bodies)," it said. "The state was also requested to make further efforts to ensure

Need to take relook at urban planning in Covid-19 era: Housing Secy

It is necessary to relook at the way urban planning is done in the Covid-19 era, Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra said on Friday

Livelihood mission of 2014 has a few pointers for urban job scheme

Between 2014-15 and October 31, 2019, over 460,000 SHGs have been formed under the scheme; 461,994 beneficiaries have been assisted in setting up micro-enterprises for self-employment

Govt tells PTI to pay Rs 84.48 crore for 'breaches' in its office premise

Urban Affairs Ministry's department warns PTI may have to pay an additional 10 per cent interest if it fails to furnish the amount within deadline.

Encourage cycles, cashless payments to curb Covid-19, Centre advises states

In order to avoid resurgence of car and other private vehicle usage, the ministry has recommended using non-motorised transport in urban areas

Credai reports 40-50% hike in cement, steel prices; alleges cartelisation

The association has written a letter to Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri seeking his intervention in the matter

Market borrowing rate must come down: Assocham president B K Goenka

Goenka said while the RBI has reduced the repo rate, banks have not cut their lending rates. They are not reducing it because of the input cost-output cost difference

Podcast: Cabinet's Diwali bonanza for PSU telcos, fuel retailers, others

Here's a quick look at key decisions taken by the Union Cabinet

Not just the common man, even big govt fears encroachment of land

A security agency will be hired for a year and it deploy such guards on vacant properties round the clock

Urban Ministry consults MEA to avail expertise of CPWD by foreign countries

Joint Secretary Ved Prakash said CPWD is keen to be associated with the respective agencies of other countries under the aegis of the MEA in execution of their projects