Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) The Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit president, Ravindra Chavan, on Monday announced that the party will launch statewide programmes to disseminate its nationalist ideology among the common citizens. Chavan said the BJP plans to use the upcoming week to strengthen its booth-level presence and showcase the achievements of both the central and state governments to every household in Maharashtra. He was speaking during a flag-hoisting ceremony held at the BJP sta…
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Mumbai, April 1 (IANS) Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Wednesday that the state government avoided a proposed 12 to 14 per cent increase in ready reckoner (RR) rates, citing prevailing global and war conditions. “The state government rejected the proposed increase in property rates to protect public interest,” he added. He said micro-zoning would be implemented in metropolitan cities such as Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Nagpur and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, under which prop…
Mumbai, March 28 (IANS) In a move to expedite long-pending land acquisition disputes related to National Highway projects, the Central government has appointed 57 new arbitrators in Maharashtra. This decision is set to resolve more than 28,000 pending claims from project-affected persons, who have been waiting since several years for their compensation. Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Saturday that following instructions from Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, he too…
Mumbai, March 27 (IANS) The Maharashtra government on Friday released a government resolution (GR) to regularise residential encroachments that existed as of January 1, 2011, and are currently used solely for residential purposes. The government hopes to resolve the housing issues of lakhs of poor and needy families in the state. According to the GR, this decision applies to the entire state, except for the Mumbai and Mumbai Suburban districts. Residential encroachments up to 500 squar…
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) Maharashtra Minister of Housing, Pankaj Bhoyar, on Wednesday informed the Legislative Assembly that the government is committed to accelerating redevelopment and housing projects in the Kamathipura and Umerkhadi areas of South Mumbai, and construction work will commence soon. He was replying to a Calling Attention Motion moved by MLA Amin Patel regarding this issue.Minister Bhoyar said that the government decided on January 12, 2023, to undertake the cluster redevelopment…
Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) The Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code (Second Amendment) Bill 2026, which delegates powers to district collectors and divisional commissioners to regularise minor breaches of conditions, ensuring that 90 per cent of cases are resolved locally. Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, who tabled the bill, said the process of regularising breaches of conditions (shartabhang) in government land transactions will now bec…
Mumbai, March 23 (IANS) Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday informed the Legislative Assembly that the process for property mutation (ferfar) in the Mumbai City district has been digitised. The move is expected to benefit approximately 3 million residents by streamlining property transactions. He told the House that earlier, different computerisation systems for property cards in Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra had caused delays.The government has now synchronised …
Mumbai, March 23 (IANS) Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday told the Legislative Assembly that illegal mining is rampant in the state and will be shut down immediately. He also announced that an ETS mapping (digital system survey) of all mines across the state will be conducted.The issue of large-scale illegal excavation of minor minerals in Raigad, Thane and Palghar districts was raised through a ‘Calling Attention’ motion by Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Sunil Prabhu.Prab…
Mumbai, March 18 (IANS) The state Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed the Maharashtra Stamp (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which aims to decentralise administrative powers and expedite the disposal of a massive backlog of stamp duty refund applications.During the discussion, Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule highlighted that the existing centralised system forced citizens to travel to Mumbai even for mid-sized refund claims, leading to significant delays and “red-tapism”.Minister Bawankule annou…
Mumbai, March 11 (IANS) Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday announced in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly that a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Divisional Commissioner Pravin Gedam, will conduct a high-level probe into alleged large-scale irregularities in land acquisition for National Highways and other projects in Jalgaon district.The Minister clarified that the committee will include two IAS officers and one IPS officer to ensure that the crimin…