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Mumbai's development plan to be put on hold: Error-ridden blueprint to upgrade city's infrastructure far from being finalised

With discrepancies continuing to emerge and people continuing to raise objections, the issue of Mumbai's development plan is not winding down just yet.

BMC's new Mumbai development plan ignores the fact that affordability, not availability, is city's real problem

The BMC's new development plan for Mumbai has two incredulous assumptions: one, that by allowing builders to build more and ‘repopulate’ the island city, homes will become more affordable and two, that more commercial buildings will mean more jobs

Budget 2018: From industry status to single-window clearance, 6 demands from real estate sector

With the hard decisions now taken, the Indian real estate sector fervently hopes that it is at the receiving end of the benevolence implied in a populist budget

Pakistan, India show improvement in index of fragile states, says report

Pakistan has shown "significant improvement" in an index of fragile states, according to a new report.

BMC Election 2017: Unaffordable housing in Mumbai is something polls won’t change

The rate of construction lags behind demand due to lack of funds and ill-thought policies and laws. What’s needed is the use of land more intensively, by reforming the land use policy, FSI, and developing a new underground mass transport system that would increase mobility in spite of high density.

Mumbai's housing crisis: Redevelopment of clusters to affect city's 'livability', reveals study

Recycling land to create housing stock is one way to solve the housing crisis in Mumbai. With high prices that show no signs of dipping, recycling is all that Mumbai has, being a city constrained by the sea, creeks and other cities bordering them.

Decongesting Mumbai: Loopholes remain in building height-road width formula

The indiscriminate redevelopment without attending to the general area in which they are taken up has messed up Mumbai.

Maharashtra budget lacks vision, no focus on growth: AAP

Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday said that the Maharashtra budget lacks long-term vision and fails to put forward a well-defined road map for the recovery of the economy of the state.

The good, bad and ugly of Mumbai's proposed development plan 2034

the DP does not clarify how higher FSI around stations would be managed to ensure that problems get solved instead of becoming worse. Would there be urban design interventions that go beyond what happens within a plot?

One of the best kept secrets of Indian real estate is out...

If affordable housing does not become the order of the day slums will become as common place in other cities, as they are currently in Mumbai. And that is not a happy thought to look forward to.