#RealtyNewsRoundUp: Delhi To Home Deliver Stamp Papers

Delhi’s revenue department has launched a facility that enables citizens to take a printout of stamp paper worth up to Rs 500. With this, the national capital has become the first city in the country to have such a system in place. In case you are buying stamp papers of worth over Rs 500, you will have to pay Rs 48 additionally, and the document will be home delivered to you in a matter of two days.

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The Supreme Court has allowed the Sahara Group to choose any parcel of its property in the Aamby Valley city project in Maharashtra, and sell them by May 15. The apex court has directed the beleaguered company to deposit the proceeds with the SEBI-Sahara refund account. The SC has made it clear that if the Sahara Group fails to sell its property by May 15, the Bombay High Court's official liquidator will proceed with the proposed auctioning process to sell the property.

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The Centre has tweaked the draft coastal development rules issued, and has proposed a significant relaxation of the buffer zone along the seaboard within which construction is regulated. The easing of norms will have immense implications for Greater Mumbai. The notification from the environment ministry suggests reducing the coastal regulation zone to 50 metre from the existing 100. Environmentalists have said that the new rules will put coastal ecosystems along the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) at risk from construction activities.

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The government’s flagship National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has created sewage treatment capacity of over 259 million litres per day (MLD). This is about only 11 per cent of the 2,311 MLD the programme seeks to create. With sewage treatment capacity being a fraction of what is required, over 1,300 MLD of sewage continues to flow into the main stem of the Ganga. The cabinet approved the Namami Gange programme on May 13, 2015, as a comprehensive approach to rejuvenate the river.

Meanwhile, the BMC has come up with a Rs 558-crore five-year plan to reclaim the land on which the Mulund dumping ground exists. The plan comprises breaking down the 7,000-million-tonne mountain of waste.

Source: Media reports