Cities
Chandigarh- The residents of Bank Colony and Pipliwala Town in Manimajra protest against the lack of facilities and several long pending issues being ignored by the authorities. The localities lack parking, playground, a wedding hall, shed, and more and there is shortage of drinking water supply from long time. Addressing the residents, Satya Pal Jain, [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon- Over the past one month, DLF, the private developer has been conducting a pilot project which is helping the residents to file their complaints at the company’s call center concerning the maintenance and security issues. There are about five telephone numbers operating on this drive. Residents from the city Phase 1,2,3 and 4 will have an easy access to the service [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- Most residents in the city feel that barricading entry and exit points of the localities along with well lit areas in a crowded market at dark will improve the safety and security. For e.g. Malviya Nagar is surrounded by a number of unauthorised colonies and urbanised villages, hence there are increased chances of people [...] Continue Reading »
The Union bank of India, a Mumbai based public sector lender, has decreased the interest rates on home loans above Rs 30 lakhs by 25 basis points. The bank is now offering home loans up to 75 lakhs at the base rate which is 10.5 percent. Loans above Rs 75 lakh and up to Rs [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- The non payment of property tax by the owners has led to various actions by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation. Last week, the SDMC resorted to drum beating in front of the tax defaulter‘s houses to embarrass them by announcing their name in public. Drum beating tactic was carried out to embarrass people who hadn’t paid their [...] Continue Reading »
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is to develop a garden based on the Hollyword movie ‘Avatar‘ in Sahakarnagar. The civic body has appointed Mr Nitin Chandrakant Desai, a famous art director to work on the project. The project includes erecting life-size statues of characters from the science-fiction movie. Six life-size statues will be erected in [...] Continue Reading »
Noida- The residents in Noida have demanded the state government to call off the transfer charges which are to be paid by the property allottees even if they are transferring the property to their blood relatives. This decision is currently under consideration by the Noida Authority. The proposal which was made by the UP department of [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body has appointed two agencies to conduct the tree census work. The first agency left the work incomplete and the second agency has counted 3 lakh trees of more than 200 species in the city’s jurisdiction. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has asked the civic administration to complete the ongoing tree census within [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- A programme has been organised by the civic body concerning the property issues among residents. One such case was of a resident who had to wait for 21 years to register his property. His property file was with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for the last 21 years with the resident making his [...] Continue Reading »
Pune- The orders issued by Karnataka high court regarding waste segregation and management has inspired the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to get rid of garbage mismanagement in Pune. The court, stressing on waste segregation at source in Bangalore, ordered that residents have to segregate dry and wet waste at household level and then the segregated [...] Continue Reading »
