Deposit Rs 50k and get Housing Board site : U T Khader
Karnataka Housing Board relaxes norms
Bengaluru, June 12: Housing Minister UT Khader said that now, people could get the Housing Board sites immediately by depositing Rs 50,000 as the Karnataka Housing Board has changed the norms imposed earlier to get the flats.
After holding a progress review meeting of his department here on Tuesday, Khader said that there is a wrong notion that there are no buyers for the sites developed by the Karnataka Housing Board. In order to beat such wrong notion, the KHB has relaxed various norms it had imposed to get the sites. As per the earlier norms, the person who wants to purchase KHB site should have stayed in Bengaluru for five years, deposit Rs 90,000 and come under the income limit. Now all these norms were relaxed. Moreover, the KHB officials were directed to develop the layouts better than the private layouts, he said.
For the beneficiaries selected under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Scheme, the government was not giving financial assistance in the beginning to construct the houses. So, beneficiaries were finding it difficult to construct the houses. In order avoid this inconvenience, the beneficiaries were allowed to get housing loans from local cooperative banks and construct the houses. The government would repay the loan amount out of the grants being given to the beneficiaries, he said.
Till now, the KHB has been constructing G+3 apartments. But now, it was decided to construct G+14 flats and such flats would accommodate more beneficiaries. Such multi-storied buildings would be constructed in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru and other big cities, he said.
In order to implement the central government’s Smart City Project effectively, preparations were being made. A commissioner would be appointed separately to look into the execution of the project in the state, the Minister said.
Karnataka Housing Board, Bengaluru Development Authority and private real estate companies should come under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act- 2016 (RERA). Those companies and institutions which are out of the ambit of the Act would be blacklisted and legal action would be taken against them.
-Housing Minister UT Khader
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Next round of Iran-US negotiations expected soon: Pak's Defence Minister
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Islamabad (PTI): Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday said that the next round of Iran-US negotiations was expected soon.
Asif made these remarks on Monday, a day after the Islamabad talks failed to clinch a deal.
The 21-hour talks between the US and Iran on Saturday were the first of their kind since 1979 due to the involvement of top-level officials from both sides. The two sides, however, failed to secure a lasting peace deal to end hostilities following their talks in Pakistan over the weekend.
Speaking to the media outside Parliament House, Asif said there had been a sense of satisfaction after the talks that there were no negative developments so far.
“Only positive progress has been observed,” he said, indicating that the ongoing diplomatic efforts were moving in a constructive direction.
The next round of Iran-US negotiations was expected soon, he added.
The Express Tribune reported that responding to a question about whether Pakistan would play a decisive role in shaping the region’s future, Asif said that ultimate decisions rest with Allah.
Vice President JD Vance, who led the US delegation at the negotiations in Islamabad, said the Iranian side did not accept Washington's terms for ending the war even as the US presented its "final and best offer".
Hours after the talks collapsed, US President Donald Trump said on social media that the negotiations with Iran failed as "Iran is unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions."
Pakistan led the diplomatic push to bring the two sides to the table, which became possible after an appeal by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif earlier this week, leading to a pause in the fighting.
The conflict began after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28, paralysing global energy markets and disrupting trade.
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