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Integrated Townships – A Return To The Good Life: Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group

Integrated townships are fast becoming the future residential format across the globe. Essentially a self-sufficient urban microcosm or ‘city inside a city, an integrated township encompasses all the necessary amenities for a modern lifestyle – including residential complexes, commercial buildings, entertainment opportunities, medical facilities and even educational institutions. Thus, a person living inside an integrated …

Affordable Housing In India – Current Status, Future Prospects : Sachin Agarwal, Chairman & Managing Director, Maple Shelters

At a rough estimate, India’s overall housing shortage as of today stands at about 22 million homes. Within this, the shortage of affordable housing – homes with price tags in the range of Rs. 10-20 lakh – accounts for a very sizable share. The supply of homes which people with less-than-spectacular financial resources but who …

PR is a Three Card Game – Chawm Ganguly

Everything you always wanted to know about PR – but didn’t know whom to ask (Basav Bhattachayya, the Chairperson of PRCAI (East) and the Senior Adviser at Integral PR was adamant. I will have to make a presentation about Corporate Communications / PR – that too as someone who has felt the PR and the …

Residential Building Redevelopment: Guidelines For Housing Societies: Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, JLL India

In most metros such as Mumbai, redevelopment of old residential buildings is a normal and desirable occurrence. Without redevelopment, there would be no new supply in the fully developed city centres. Also, redevelopment is necessary because every building has an inbuilt shelf-life, after which it becomes unsafe, unattractive to the market and difficult to maintain. …

#PR Buddies 40 random things that make you a #PRGuy – Chawm Ganguly

Your friends think you get paid to Facebook all day, every day. Your mother thinks you are some kind of a celebrity who spends all his time in star properties, winning friends and influencing people. Your wife thinks you are a smooth operator wiling your time away in the company of power dressed lady colleagues …

Market walkers Tread Carefully – Rajesh Agarwal Jindal

We expect Indian markets to remain impulsive during the week reacting to the announcements of domestic Services and Manufacturing PMI numbers. Rise in Chinese PMI has already enthused the Indian markets in the previous week. PMI numbers above 50 for India would provide a breather for the Indian bourse that were reeling under pressure last …

IFPRI: Growth faltering beyond first 1000 days

Beyond 1000 Days The world has rallied around the importance of good nutrition in a child’s first 1000 days – from conception to two years—to set up a lifetime of good health. With momentum from global movements such as 1000 Days and Scaling up Nutrition, it has been well documented that a lack of good …

Pune’s IT-Centric Residential Property Investment Hotspots: Sanjay Bajaj, Managing Director – Pune, JLL India

Information technology has proved to be the most important lodestone for boosting and also re-defining real estate demand in India’s cities. The IT/ITeS sector provides massive, well-paid employment opportunities in cities with appropriately educated and trained workforces such as Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. Because of the higher purchasing power and more evolved …

A Perspective On Illegal Buildings In Mumbai: Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, JLL India

The problem of illegal buildings in Mumbai – and their impact on the existence of Mumbai’s citizens and organizations, as well as its real estate market – is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, it is as old as the BMC itself. Whether they were the result of corruption and collusion or lack of vigilance …

Bengali Bhadrolok, for sale or for hire: Chawm Ganguly

“If Money is lost: nothing is lost, if health is lost: something is lost, but if character is lost” and here, our elders would pause, seizing our response, before stressing “everything, is lost”. Growing up hearing the same ditty repeated over and over, we too learnt the importance of being a “bhalo chele” (a good …