Cities
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 »
After re-imposing property tax in Haryana, the state government has given 90 days to property owners to sort out the issues of tax diminution and self-assessment as according to government officials, from November 1, civic bodies will begin serving demand notices. Haryana has around 20 lakh property tax payers, 2.5 lakh and 2.45 lakh from [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of east Delhi have protested against power supplier BSES Yamunadue to long power outages in their areas. Residents are worried due to frequent power cuts in the Mayur Vihar Phase III, Vasundhara and Kondli areas. Residents said power supply was cut from Friday 10pm to Sunday morning, and then again on Sunday night in [...] Continue Reading »
A recent survey by the civic authority has revealed that there are more than 320 real estate projects in Mumbai, both commercial and residential, which have been put on hold. The data came up during a recent survey of mosquito-breeding sites in the city. Majority of these projects, around 202, are in the western suburbs [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage issues are creating a major problem for the city of Mumbai. Mayor Sunil Prabhu put the blame on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at a civic general body meeting on Monday for the problems faced by citizens due to garbage dumping. The mayor expressed his views that contingency plan must be made for garbage [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay high court has restricted developer Vasant Sagar Properties Pvt. Ltd from carrying out any construction work beyond five floors. The builder had proposed to build a 13-storey residential building in Marine Drive, which violates the height limit of 28 meters. However, the builder said that all rules were being followed for construction and [...] Continue Reading »
Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), Nagpur, is forced to scrap many schemes designed to offer for slum-dwellers. The reason being lack of demand as most of the target population has not shown any interest so far in most of the projects. The major problem seems to be the size of flats being built under SRA, which [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi High Court has allowed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) to ‘implement’ their decision to remove the illegal construction at the site in Subhash Park. ASI has asked the civic agency to immediately remove unauthorized construction from public land in a letter, failing which the heritage body [...] Continue Reading »
Brick Eagle Capital Group is the latest to enter the low cost housing sector. It plans to invest Rs. 200 Crore in five projects of Xrbia Developers Limited. Xrbia is an affordable housing venture promoted by the Eiffel group. The proposed five projects will come up in the area of Karjat, near Mumbai, on 150 [...] Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court has put stay on a July 23 Haryana High Court ruling, providing temporary relief to TC Gupta, director general of the town and country planning department in Gurgaon. Gupta was found guilty of allowing residential complexes in Gurgaon by issuing license to Anant Raj Industries for construction of housing colonies, despite the [...] Continue Reading »
