DLF Garden City Lucknow bags 'Integrated Township of the Year Award'

Company Brief

New Delhi, March 27, 2012

Gardencity, the first ever residential project in Lucknow by DLF has bagged the "Integrated Township of the Year – North India" award at the Realty Plus Excellence Awards 2012, instituted by real estate monthly magazine Realty Plus.

Cheered by a galaxy of realty stars, luminaries and other stakeholders present from all over the country at a glittering award ceremony held in national capital at The Metropolitan Hotel, Bangla Sahib road, Gardencity, Lucknow was chosen for setting new benchmarks for excellence in the Indian Real Estate industry in 2012', their immaculate town planning and their outstanding contributions and efforts towards bringing about massive and positive changes in the real estate skyline of this region.

This is the fourth award in the last two years conferred upon DLF India:

* Marketer of the Year For Hyde Park Estate at DLF New Chandigarh – Estate World Awards in Association with KPMG & Bloomberg-2011

* Developer of the year - North India – Estate World Awards in association with KPMG & Bloomberg-2011

* Integrated Township of the Year For DLF Valley, Panchkula – Realty Plus Excellence Awards-2010,

Receiving the award, Ananta Singh Raghuvanshi, director sales and marketing at DLF India Ltd said, "It is extremely encouraging to enter new markets and recreate the success and magic of the past. As a group we are extremely excited and committed to our developments in Lucknow, New Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, etc. For each market, we are trying our best to think globally and act locally."

Gardencity, is DLF's first residential project, in the city of Nawabs- Lucknow. With almost 40 per cent of the area as open spaces and plot sizes starting from 250 sq yards and above, the township conforms to very high standards of low density population norms. The facilities at Gardencity match the international living standards and gives the people of Lucknow their first real taste of an exquisite lifestyle. It boasts of meticulous town planning, eco friendly infrastructure, wide open roads, its own smart sewage disposal plant, underground cabling and massive green belts running across the township.

The awardees were chosen after a rigorous selection of developers through a transparent process by the Jury which comprised some eminent personalities and leaders like Mr. Anuj Puri, Chairman and Country Head, JLL, Dr. P.S.N. Rao – Chairman, NAR-India & Head – Department of Housing, School of Planning and Architecture, Mr. Sachin Sandhir – Managing Director, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Dr. V. Chandrasekhar - Indu Projects Real Estate Research Chair, Indian School of Business, Mr. Vinod Behl, Editor, Realty Plus and Consulting Editor, exchange4media group, Dr. P. S. Rana – Chairman, Indian Infrastructure & Urban Development Company & former Chairman, HUDCO, Mr. Sanjeev Dasgupta, President – Real Estate, ICICI Venture Capital, Dr. P.C. Jain, Chairman, India Green Building Council (IGBC), Mr. Subhash Lakhotia, Senior Tax Expert.

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