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I am planning to post my progress towards GATE preparation in this blog.I will make notes in this blog as I prepare, which might be useful to fellow students.Feel free to follow my blog and post commeents, suggestions and queries. Syllabus and useful links appear below blogs.Follow my blog to get regular updates about my posts. Go through blog archive(right hand side of blog) to access earlier posts. You can email me to minupradeep@hotmail.com, if you need more preparation material, older question papers etc.

don't miss this post

http://gateprep-architecture.blogspot.in/2013/11/formulals-conversions-and-data-required.html

update: I qualified GATE 2014 with a score of 892 and all india rank 6....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Autocad Tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2nctVPR1Pg&list=PL970B66C256FA05E1

also check out other videos from youtube. a quick way to refresh your autocad memory

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Development Administration and Management

UDPFI guidelinrs fo Urbam Development 

http://mhupa.gov.in/w_new/SummaryUDPFI.pdf

73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments(nagapalika bill)/JNNURM

http://www.slideshare.net/umeshvarma1/municipal-structures-in-india
http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend74.htm
http://jnnurm.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/RTP_MOD-2.1.pdf

National Urbanisation Policy

http://www.preservearticles.com/2012013022125/short-essay-on-national-urbanization-policy-india.html

Rajiv Awas Yojna (slum free india/ housing for slums)

http://mhupa.gov.in/w_new/RAY%20Guidelines-%20English.pdf

Indira Awas Yojana(Housing for Rural Poor)

http://iay.nic.in/netiay/home.aspx

Valmiki Ambekar Awas Yojana

http://www.gktoday.in/valmiki-ambedkar-awas-yojana-vambay_29/

Special Residential Zones

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/special-residential-zones-may-pick-up-reality-
checks/article16804.ece

PURA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providing_Urban_Amenities_to_Rural_Areas

NREGA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi_National_Rural_Employment_Guarantee_Act


Eminent Domain: inherent power of state to seize private property without the owner's content

Police Power: Regulating behaviour and enforcing order within the state territory

Transfer of Development Rights: Protecting land by reassigning the rights to develop from one area to another

Land Pooling/Readjustment

The concept of land readjustment is to assemble small rural land parcels into a large land parcel, provide it with infrastructure in a planned manner and return the reconstituted land to the owners, after deducting the cost of the provision of infrastructure and public spaces by the sale of some of serviced land.