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Business Standard
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0 Bags Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Award
NewsVoir Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 6: Navin's, South India's one of the most trusted real estate developer, has won the prestigious Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) award third time in a row, as a recognition for its exceptional contribution to housing sector, this time for Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0. The award was bestowed on Navin's by Shri Tokhan Sahu, Hon'ble Minister of State for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India at a felicitation function in New Delhi and was received by Mr. N. Kalyanaraman COO. Navin's is the only real estate developer in Tamil Nadu to have received this award. On the coveted award, Mr. N. Kalyanaraman, Chief Operating Officer of Navin's, said, "We are incredibly proud that the well-established phase of our flagship project Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0 has been chosen for the PMAY award which demonstrates our leadership in building homes that truly make a difference. This award comes after rigorous scrutiny of top residential projects from different states in India and that makes PMAY award extremely special reiterating that we are on top of the game. Being a customer-first brand, we understand the struggles of every aspiring homebuyer who invest their lifetime savings to buy a dream home. All our projects have the best of facilities and luxury, and we offer them at affordable prices too. With Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0, Navin's continues to set new benchmarks in customer-centric, future-ready living." Organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), the PMAY awards evaluates projects across a wide range of parameters including structural quality, safety, functional efficiency, architectural design, timely delivery and innovation in execution. Navin's Starwood Towers is the landmark development of the flagship project located in Medavakkam, Chennai. The project exemplifies Navin's hallmark values of quality, trust and timely delivery, combining modern architecture with thoughtful planning and sustainable design. With over 20 prestigious awards in its kitty, Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0 stands as one of Tamil Nadu's most recognised residential projects. This latest recognition strengthens Navin's legacy as a trusted name in South Indian real estate sector and underscores its continued leadership in the affordable housing space. Navin's, under the visionary leadership of Dr. R. Kumar, its founder and Chairman, has flourished over the past 35 years, becoming the most trusted and respected real estate brand in Chennai, with over 125+ projects transforming the city's skyline, it believes that building homes is an art--an exercise of intellect, careful precision, and passion. The motto of the organization has been to achieve a symbiosis of architectural brilliance, aesthetic appeal and excellent quality combined with ethical business practices. The Brand was the first in Chennai to receive the ISO 9001-2008 Certification, and now upgraded to ISO 2015 and bring to the table, Perfect titles, strict adherence to rules and regulations, excellence in design, quality constructions, care for customer needs and above all ethical business practices. Navin's has won over 60 awards including Several awards from Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) ; Best Professionally Managed Company award by CIDC , Several awards from Builders Association of India; PMAY award for Best affordable housing for the years 2019 & 2022, National Green Champion from the IGBC, and Most reputed developer of the year 2019 from ET Now to name a few.
Fashion Value Chain
3 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Value Chain
Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0 Bags Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Award
Navin's, South India's one of the most trusted real estate developer, has won the prestigious Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) award third time in a row, as a recognition for its exceptional contribution to housing sector, this time for Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0. The award was bestowed on Navin's by Shri Tokhan Sahu, Honble Minister of State for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India at a felicitation function in New Delhi and was received by Mr. N. Kalyanaraman COO. Navin's is the only real estate developer in Tamil Nadu to have received this award. Navin's COO Mr. N. Kalyanaraman and GM Mr. R. Prabakar receiving the PMAY Award 2025 from the Hon'ble Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs On the coveted award, Mr. N. Kalyanaraman, Chief Operating Officer of Navin's, said, 'We are incredibly proud that the well-established phase of our flagship project Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0 has been chosen for the PMAY award which demonstrates our leadership in building homes that truly make a difference. This award comes after rigorous scrutiny of top residential projects from different states in India and that makes PMAY award extremely special reiterating that we are on top of the game. Being a customer-first brand, we understand the struggles of every aspiring homebuyer who invest their lifetime savings to buy a dream home. All our projects have the best of facilities and luxury, and we offer them at affordable prices too. With Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0, Navin's continues to set new benchmarks in customer-centric, future-ready living.' Organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), the PMAY awards evaluates projects across a wide range of parameters including structural quality, safety, functional efficiency, architectural design, timely delivery and innovation in execution. Navin's Starwood Towers is the landmark development of the flagship project located in Medavakkam, Chennai. The project exemplifies Navin's hallmark values of quality, trust and timely delivery, combining modern architecture with thoughtful planning and sustainable design. With over 20 prestigious awards in its kitty, Navin's Starwood Towers 3.0 stands as one of Tamil Nadu's most recognised residential projects. This latest recognition strengthens Navin's legacy as a trusted name in South Indian real estate sector and underscores its continued leadership in the affordable housing space. About Navin's Navins, under the visionary leadership of Dr. R. Kumar, its founder and Chairman, has flourished over the past 35 years, becoming the most trusted and respected real estate brand in Chennai, with over 125+ projects transforming the citys skyline, it believes that building homes is an art-an exercise of intellect, careful precision, and passion. The motto of the organization has been to achieve a symbiosis of architectural brilliance, aesthetic appeal and excellent quality combined with ethical business practices. The Brand was the first in Chennai to receive the ISO 9001-2008 Certification, and now upgraded to ISO 2015 and bring to the table, Perfect titles, strict adherence to rules and regulations, excellence in design, quality constructions, care for customer needs and above all ethical business practices. Navin's has won over 60 awards including Several awards from Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) ; Best Professionally Managed Company award by CIDC , Several awards from Builders Association of India; PMAY award for Best affordable housing for the years 2019 & 2022, National Green Champion from the IGBC, and Most reputed developer of the year 2019 from ET Now to name a few. Website link ~
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Child care providers to reopen centers, urge communities to join call for funding
Brynne Schieffer is a child care provider in Cameron, Wisconsin. She addressed a gathering outside the state Capitol on Friday, May 16, 2025. (Photo by Erik Gunn/Wisconsin Examiner) After a week at the state Capitol to draw attention to their demand for a robust state fund for child care providers, advocates will spend the next couple of weeks back home to amplify their message. Child care centers will reopen this week after closing their doors for all or part of the past week as providers sought to underscore the urgency of additional support for child care. Providers will focus on raising more awareness in their local communities, said Corrine Hendrickson, co-founder of Wisconsin Early Childhood Action Needed (WECAN), a coalition of providers and parents. Federal pandemic relief money that has bolstered providers since 2021 will run out completely by early July. This week, WECAN is encouraging providers to do 'larger [local] community actions to help inform the community,' Hendrickson told the Wisconsin Examiner. 'We're also going to be calling other child care programs, making sure they even know this funding's ending.' WECAN organized the week of action in Madison, calling it 'State Without Child Care.' A small group of providers shut down for the week to dramatize the loss of child care that they contend will be inevitable without strong state support. Others closed for a day or two, and still others opted to stay open while also endorsing the funding demand. Earlier this month leaders of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee removed a $480 million child care funding provision from Gov. Tony Evers' proposed 2025-27 state budget, along with more than 600 other items. On Friday, Hendrickson and WECAN cofounder Brooke Legler were joined by parents and other providers in front of the Capitol to reiterate their case for restoring the funds. 'My family still currently pays 25% of our monthly income towards child care, and honestly that's just after-school care and then summer camps,' said Katy Dicks of Sun Prairie, who has a 10-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. When the children were younger, child care accounted for a third of the family's income, she said — while 'it has been suggested that 7% of a family's income is what is affordable.' Dicks leads the Wisconsin chapter of Mother Forward, a national advocacy group for child care, paid family leave and other policies to support families. 'We need policy that works for all families,' she said. 'The quality of care for children approximately 3 months to 5 years should not be based on a child's parents' income.' Also at the Capitol were Rochelle Navin and her husband. They have a 2-year-old daughter, and Navin is expecting twins. Their daughter is usually at Legler's New Glarus child care center, The Growing Tree, while her parents work, but they juggled home care arrangements to support Legler's decision to close the center for the week. Navin told the Wisconsin Examiner it was disruptive to their routine, but the couple understood why Legler took that step. 'There's two sides of it, right?' Navin said. 'You fully understand why it's gotten to this point, and why the extreme [response] needed to be taken, while at the same time being scared about what the future looks like.' Evers' proposal was to extend the Child Care Counts program, originally funded by federal pandemic relief money. The subsidy — originally $20 million a month, then cut back to $10 million a month in mid-2023 — enabled providers to raise wages without having to increase the fees parents pay for care. A statewide survey conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty found that 25% of providers said they might close if the revenue isn't replaced. Hendrickson said in the coming weeks she and other providers who have been active in campaigning for the support will reach out to operators with messaging guidance for talking to parents as well as to their local lawmakers. 'This week was definitely about coming together as a group in solidarity and really standing up for ourselves and for our children and our families and our communities,' Hendrickson said Friday. Over the course of the week at the Capitol, 'we visited almost every single office, dropped off information, talked to staffers and really helped them see who it is that they're hurting,' she said. The providers who engaged in those conversations also aimed to show legislators 'that their constituents actually know what they're talking about — we know what we're talking about with our businesses, we can speak to it and the reason why we need the funding, and it's not a handout,' Hendrickson added. In the Institute for Research on Poverty study, up to 40% of rural providers said they might close if the additional funding stops. That's nearly twice the projected closure rate of urban providers. Brynne Schieffer operates a child care program in the community of Cameron, near Rice Lake in Northwestern Wisconsin. 'I have spent the entirety of my adult life caring for not only my own children, but other people's children, raising them, raising them to be kind human beings that will hopefully one day go out and be carers themselves,' Schieffer told the group gathered on the Capitol steps Friday. 'The funding runs out in July, and to avoid closure we have to raise our rates between $35 and $50 per child per week. Whose pocketbook can handle that?' Hendrickson told the Wisconsin Examiner that if rural providers have to raise their rates, they're more likely to lose families who can't afford the increase, with no one to replace them. In cities, she said, moderate- and low-income families will be hurt by the loss of child care, but there are likely to be more high-income families able to keep up with rising costs, so fewer providers would have to close. All but one of the providers who made the trip to Madison last week were from rural communities around the state, Hendrickson said. 'People drove four or five hours to get here,' she said. 'It's because they don't feel listened to [back in their districts]. And that's what they said — 'I've had to come all the way down here to get them to listen to me.'' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
The Hindu
03-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
98% of ED cases involving politicians filed against opposition leaders: TMC's Saket Gokhale
Trinamool Congress leader Saket Mr. Gokhale on Saturday (May 3, 2025) said 98% of the cases filed by the Enforcement Directorate against politicians were against Opposition leaders. 'The remaining two% are those who went and joined the BJP's 'washing machine,'' he said. Mr. Gokhale referred to Thursday's (May 1) statement of ED Director Rahul Navin, to claim that the surge in cases post-2014 was at the behest of Narendra Modi, who came to power the same year. Speaking at an event on ED Day, Mr. Navin said the anti-money laundering law had been 'largely ineffective' before 2014 and there has been a significant step-up in enforcement activity since then. In a post on X, Mr. Gokhale said, 'Yesterday, the head of central agency ED admitted that there's been a surge of cases filed after Modi Government came to power in 2014.' 'In the last 11 years, a total of 5,297 cases were filed by ED. How many were taken to court for trial? Only 47,' he said. The TMC Rajya Sabha MP said the conviction rate in ED cases is only 0.7%. 'That means out of every 1,000 cases filed, accused were found guilty in only seven cases,' he said. 'Therefore, out of every 1,000 cases, 993 cases are filed by ED purely to keep a person in jail because getting bail under the draconian PMLA is almost impossible,' he said. According to the ED Director, 1,739 cases filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act are under trial at present. He said out of the 47 cases decided by courts, the conviction rate was 93.6% with only three acquittals. Meanwhile, Mr. Gokhale accused the Centre of using the probe process as a punishment. 'The idea is to turn the process into punishment in order to blackmail and extort the innocent accused into breaking down and following the orders of the BJP,' he said. Mr. Navin on Thursday (May 1) claimed that the slowdown in the adjudication of these cases could be attributed to a 'general delay' in the judicial system of the country, combined with the inherent complexity of such investigations. Speaking at an event held in New Delhi to mark the ED Day, the agency chief said though the PMLA was enacted in 2003 and came into force on July 1, 2005, it was 'largely ineffective' in the initial years with less than 200 cases per year, mostly 'restricted' to drug-related offences. 'After 2014, however, there has been a significant step-up in enforcement activity. From 2014 to 2024, 5,113 new PMLA investigations were initiated, averaging more than 500 cases per year,' Navin said. The central probe agency was established on May 1, 1956. It implements two criminal laws — The Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA) — apart from the civil provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
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Business Standard
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
98% ED cases against politicians target Oppn leaders, claims TMC's Gokhale
Trinamool Congress leader Saket Gokhale on Saturday said 98 per cent of the cases filed by the Enforcement Directorate against politicians were against opposition leaders. "The remaining two per cent are those who went and joined the BJP's 'washing machine,'" he said. Gokhale referred to Thursday's statement of ED Director Rahul Navin, to claim that the surge in cases post-2014 was at the behest of Narendra Modi, who came to power the same year. Speaking at an event on ED Day, Navin said the anti-money laundering law had been "largely ineffective" before 2014 and there has been a significant step-up in enforcement activity since then. In a post on X, Gokhale said, "Yesterday, the head of central agency ED admitted that there's been a surge of cases filed after Modi Government came to power in 2014." "In the last 11 years, a total of 5,297 cases were filed by ED. How many were taken to court for trial? Only 47," he said. The TMC Rajya Sabha MP said the conviction rate in ED cases is only 0.7 per cent. "That means out of every 1000 cases filed, accused were found guilty in only seven cases," he said. "Therefore, out of every 1000 cases, 993 cases are filed by ED purely to keep a person in jail because getting bail under the draconian PMLA is almost impossible," he said. According to the ED Director, 1,739 cases filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act are under trial at present. He said out of the 47 cases decided by courts, the conviction rate was 93.6 per cent with only three acquittals. Meanwhile, Gokhale accused the Centre of using the probe process as a punishment. "The idea is to turn the process into punishment in order to blackmail and extort the innocent accused into breaking down and following the orders of the BJP," he said. Navin on Thursday claimed that the slowdown in the adjudication of these cases could be attributed to a "general delay" in the judicial system of the country, combined with the inherent complexity of such investigations. Speaking at an event held here to mark the ED Day, the agency chief said though the PMLA was enacted in 2003 and came into force on July 1, 2005, it was "largely ineffective" in the initial years with less than 200 cases per year, mostly "restricted" to drug-related offences. "After 2014, however, there has been a significant step-up in enforcement activity. From 2014 to 2024, 5,113 new PMLA investigations were initiated, averaging more than 500 cases per year," Navin said. The central probe agency was established on May 1, 1956. It implements two criminal laws --The Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA) -- apart from the civil provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
