Bangalore
Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is to order a probe into the alleged irregularities in the work taken up by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in removing silt from drains in the last three years. CM stated this in response to the janata Dal (Secular) member M Srinivas’s allegations, which said payments had been made [...] Continue Reading »
The hundi system monitored by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come under severe criticism of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The CAG has reported that the Palike commissioner and the Chief Accounts Officer are responsible for its poor financial condition. CAG has observed that the BBMP’s improper financial management has resulted in useless [...] Continue Reading »
Distracted with legal battles, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has lost 108.94 acres out of its 2,750 acres to Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)?Employees’ House Building Co-operative Society (HBCS) at several villages in north Bangalore. The land was taken for formation of Arkavathy Layout. Now, the civic body has laid claim to 1,200 acres, albeit with [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) plan to include Electronics City under its jurisdiction, to raise more money, has angered the companies and their employees in the E-City. It is currently maintained by Electronic City Association, which is the best industrial estate of India and the pride of Bangalore. The association gets the cost of maintenance [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Koramangala say that the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) manipulated tenders to favour contractors and floated tenders to move trees after they were already moved. Between May 26 and 27, the BDA cut over 34 trees along Sarjapur Road for the signal-free corridor extending from Sirsi Circle to Agara Junction and passing through Koramangala, [...] Continue Reading »
The garbage disposal issue seems to have irked the residents of Bangalore as well as the court. The high court has issued notices to the state government, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and Karnataka Slum Clearance Board (KSCB) in a public interest petition related to the garbage disposal system in the [...] Continue Reading »
The steady pricing that Bangalore real estate has maintained so far has been good news for the buyers. But things are expected to change as the Bangalore real estate market is expected to shoot up from the next quarter. The main pushing factors are increase in cement and steel prices in the last couple of [...] Continue Reading »
The Bahrut Bangalore Municipal Corporation (BBMP) is to soon generate 8 MW of power from solid waste, said M K Shankarlingegowda BBMP commissioner. This comes along with Mysore City Corporation’s (MCC) plans to convert solid waste to generate power. According to M K Shankarlingegowda, Bangalore’s plant will be the first in India and he said that he [...] Continue Reading »
Residential property sales across Bangalore have dropped up to 40 per cent in April-June quarter as compared to the peak of Q4 2012. The city’s realty markets, where real estate sales are largely driven by IT clientele (60-65 per cent), have been going through a sluggish period. According to Karvy Institutional Research, a brokerage firm, [...] Continue Reading »
In order to improve garbage collection, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to start a second shift. The BBMP council passed a resolution to hike the tender amount for garbage contractors by 20 per cent. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy pointed out irregularities among garbage contractors as many of them claim bills without cleaning [...] Continue Reading »
