The six-member committee voted unanimously to hold rates, but also said that there is policy space available for further action. Between February and October 2019, the RBI had reduced repo rate by 135 basis points.

Share Market Update: BSE 30-share S&P Sensex ended 144 points higher at 41,313 and NSE 50-share index Nifty50 closed 44 points higher at 12,133.

In the last year, the government has taken steps like 'housing for all' by 2022, tax sops, a sharp cut in GST rates for under-construction flats and a Rs 25,000 crore fund to salvage stalled residential projects.

Share Market Update: YES Bank, Coal India, Britannia, Coal India, Larsen and Toubro and NTPC were among the top gainers today. Power Grid, Bahrti Airtel, Infosys, Cipla and TCS were trading among the top losers.

Stocks to watch today on January 24: Bank of Baroda, Indian Bank, Ultratech Cement, HDFC Life, PNB Housing among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Friday's trading session

The stock opened 4.74% higher at Rs 304 on BSE today. The mid cap stock has risen 3.17% in the last 2 days. 

The investment manager along with developer will ensure that the end-use of funds is only to complete the project, says the government

The government also stated that affordable or mid-income housing projects are the ones where the housing units do not exceed 200 sq m RERA carpet area 

Real estate revival: The FAQs issued by the finance ministry clarified that the NPA or NCLT projects will be also be considered for the last mile funding by the government

Real estate distress fund: The fund would also bag investments from institutions such as LIC and SBI, which would expand the corpus to Rs 25,000 crore

Two lakh shares of Sun Pharma were traded amounting to turnover of Rs 8.68 crore on BSE

Indiabulls Real Estate Limited, Sobha Limited, Prestige Estates and Godrej Properties gained between 2% and 5% on BSE

\"We are entering into Delhi-NCR which is a key real estate market in the country. We have formed a joint venture with Ace Group to develop this mid-income housing project,\" Prestige Group CEO Venkat K Narayan said in an interview

Share Market Updates: Shedding gains of the trading session Wednesday, benchmark indices closed in the red. Other major indices gave up all intraday gains to turn negative in trade as well.

The BJP government announced a slew of schemes after it assumed power in 2014 winning 336 Lok Sabha seats out of 543 seats. Work under most of these schemes is still under progress an year ahead of General Election 2019.