Cities
Alarming reports state that Bangalore has been in the grip of dengue over the last two months. More and more cases of dengue-like fever have been reported in the last few months from all over the city. However, the health officials from the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) continue to be in denial mode. Statistics [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of the Chitlapakkam town panchayat are living in fear of the being swamped with the sewage. Following the recent rain, sewage and rain water flowing through a channel has overflowed and stagnated the area of vacant land. Local residents fear that if no action is taken, the situation will become worse with the coming [...] Continue Reading »
The amount of unsold apartments are on the rise in the metropolitan cities. The main reason for this is believed to be the refusal of builders or developers to reduce prices. A meeting called up in the light of reports of increasing number of unsold flats in cities such as Mumbai, it is found that [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sources say that expenditure on solid waste management may come down soon. The civic body spends around Rs 400 crore on solid waste management at present. The contractors participated in the new garbage tenders had quoted up to 40 per cent less. With relaxation of terms and conditions in [...] Continue Reading »
Outskirts of Bangalore are witnessing unprecedented growth and price appreciation. Metro connectivity to areas like Kanakapura road, Sarjapur, Devanahalli and Mysore Road have boosted the realty prices of places like Hoskote and Bidadi. The price escalations in the peripheral districts of Bangalore have been reported to be even sharper than in the Central Business District [...] Continue Reading »
The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation has gone hi-tech with SMS services. The citizens can now get notifications about water, sewerage bills and house tax on their cell phones. The authority would send texts to the registered cellphone numbers of its consumers informing them of the due dates and even receipts. The civic body is preparing an [...] 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 »
Chennai has recorded the highest occupancy levels amongst the top six Indian cities. Occupancy level stands at 64 per cent in Chennai. As per reports, the average room rate in H1 2012 was recorded Rs 4,900 in Chennai, which is an increase of approximately 4 per cent over 2011. The reason behind this is the [...] 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 »
