Bonjour, new guests from small-town India
Puneet Dhawan of Accor is brimming with ideas on ways to revive the hospitality sector
File picture
The Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry on Monday announced that its Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) for mid-income-group (MIG) has been extended by another 12 months, till March 2020.
So far around 93, 007 beneficiaries have been covered under the scheme.
"The growth and performance of CLSS for MIG scheme has been very good and we are on course to having about one lakh beneficiaries by the end of this year," said Hardeep Puri, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
CLSS for MIG scheme was launched was launched for 12 months till December 2017. The dwelling unit carpet area was initially revised to ‘upto 120 sq.m’ and ‘upto 150 sq.m’ for MIG I and MIG II respectively in November 2017 and further increased it to ‘upto 160 sq.m’ and ‘upto 200 sq.m’ for MIG I and MIG II respectively in June 2018.
Meanwhile, the Ministry is also organising Gobal Housing Technology challenge to co-opt internationally acclaimed rapid mass housing construction technologies and to help States/UTs to construct sanctioned houses under PMAY (U) to address housing shortage in the urban areas by 2022.
Till now, more than 68.7 lakh houses have been sanctioned under PMAY (U).
Since the launch of the mission, around 36 lakh houses have been grounded and around ₹ 33,455 crore is released for the project.
Puneet Dhawan of Accor is brimming with ideas on ways to revive the hospitality sector
Citroen’s first vehicle sports a novel design and European interiors. It is also meant to be as comfortable as ...
The pandemic is only the tip of the iceberg that the country’s cash-poor airlines — both regional and national ...
The government is yet to specify the framework of its recently announced old vehicle scrappage policy
This Women’s Day, we discuss the features of a few financial products that aim to help you save, get insured ...
Sensex, Nifty 50 make a strong bounce-back, but test resistances
Avenue Supermarts (₹3,286.1): Makes fresh all-time highIn October last year, the stock of Avenue Supermarts ...
The exchange-traded fund ticks all boxes as an efficient tool to track gold prices
Muriel has put our names down on a list to get the Covid-19 vaccination because — hurrah! — the age limit has ...
They are the health warriors who battled the Covid-19 pandemic on the ground, and are now the face of the ...
Uzbekistan’s grandest city dazzles tourists with its history, architecture and food
It’s the birth anniversary of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, one of the great artists and ...
Comfort, convenience, value, safety — and not necessarily the colour pink — but do brands deliver?
Why and how marketers have used camels, and left us thirsting for more
Start-up SALT wants to break feminine stereotypes around money, and is asking women to reassert agency
It’s that time of year again when brands suddenly start paying obeisance to women power. From sentimental to ...
Three years after its inception, compliance with GST procedures remains a headache for exporters, job workers ...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of companies are altering the prospects for wooden toys of ...
Aequs Aerospace to create space for large-scale manufacture of toys at Koppal
And it has every reason to smile. Covid-19 has triggered a consumer shift towards branded products as ...
Please Email the Editor