Mumbai
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has ordered a probe into all occupation certificates (OC) issued by the civic body in the last 10 years against promised rainwater harvesting systems by builders. The announcement of the enquiry came after several corporators alleged that officials of the civic building proposal department had handed out OCs to builders [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will undertake a pilot project of the newly adapted technology of geo-tagging all the garbage collection points in the city. The geo-tagging will help the BMC keep a close check on the garbage collection process. The tracking would be done with the help of GPS devices fitted in the garbage [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s ambitious plans to monitor road contractors’ work quality may not take off soon. The BMC had invited tenders worth Rs 120 crore to repair potholes and asked contractors to install sensors and GPS devices on their machinery to enable the civic body to monitor quality. BMC made it compulsory for contractors [...] Continue Reading »
In order to transfer ownership to a new buyer, a home buyer in Maharashtra had to do before selling a newly-purchased flat was to obtain a no objection certificate (NOC) from the developer. This process gave an opportunity to the developers to extract a large sum as ‘ transfer fee’ from the clueless buyer lieu of a no objection [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai-based Omkar Realtors & Developers is in talks with Kolkata based Forum Projects to enter into a residential joint venture. The two parties are en route to develop a two-lakh sq ft super luxury residential project off Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai. The project will mark Forum Projects’ entry into Mumbai’s prime realty market. The project [...] Continue Reading »
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has rejected a complaint regarding alleged abuse of dominance by real estate developer Supertech. The developer was cleared off charges as the fair trade regulator did not find any evidence to support the charges. CCI maintained that there was nothing on record indicating any evidence of dominance of Supertech. [...] Continue Reading »
In order to reduce the burden of ever-increasing property registration work, 31 sub-registrar offices will be opened in the state of Maharashtra. Property registration is the second highest revenue generating source in the state and at present public has to spend a lot of time to register their property at offices. A proposal seeking additions to [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seems to have found an answer to detect pipeline leaks. BMC’s water supply department has been using this method to detect leakages in the supply lines in the C ward (Marine Lines) of the island city and the T ward (Mulund) in the suburbs. Now the civic body has decided [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally taken steps to get a team of independent experts to conduct a technical audit of pothole repairs of Mumbai roads. The audit is to start from next week and it will examine why the BMC had failed to rid roads of potholes this monsoon despite introducing cold-mix technology [...] Continue Reading »
Lalit Kumar Jain, president of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) has stated that corruption is the biggest trouble glaring the real estate sector. At the opening address of 12th NATCON, the Credai president remarked that that the humiliating approval process and corruption is to blame for the problems of developers [...] Continue Reading »
