Cities
Increasing gas tanker accidents near National Highway 48 has been worrying the residents in the neighbourhood. Recently, a gas tanker met with an accident near Hole Thimmenahalli in Alur taluk and on such events it is advised not to start cooking gas. The police and Fire and Emergency Service personnel diverted the traffic and advised [...] Continue Reading »
The state government of Maharashtra has amended the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations (BPMC), Act, 1949. The amendment will now not only ensure action against relevant builders but also hold civic officers responsible if they fail in their duty in restricting the construction of illegal structure. According to the Act the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has planned to construct over 5,000 rainwater harvesting structures across the city. According to a corporation official, the structures will be constructed at 30-metre intervals at every third storm water drain inlet. A bore well pipe would be placed inside the inlets. Sand and blue metal would be filled in the pipe [...] Continue Reading »
The sources of drinking water for Nandigama Municipality are not enough to meet the increasing demand of the local body. People are forced to depend on the groundwater which is highly contaminated by fluoride content. The Municipality is not able to maintain the supply of the drinking water at the localities in Krishna district. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra government has planned to initiate Urban Malnutrition Mission from next month. As the non governmental organizations have pointed out the fact that adequate health service is not available in the apartments in urban Maharashtra, the government has decided to promote the health service at the places. The infant mortality rate has been recorded [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Madikeri are disposing the waste, garbages beside the roads which is increasing the unhealthy atmosphere of the tourist town. The City Municipality Council has put in place a mechanism for disposal of waste and the council also appealed to all the residents not to throw waste into the drain and on the [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has planned to auction 110 flats at the CWG Village and they reserve the prices for those flats between Rs. 2.5 and Rs. 5.8 crore. The Commonwealth Games Village has 34 residential towers with 1,168 flats. The authority has more than 700 apartments in CWG under their share. The DDA [...] Continue Reading »
More than 300 applicants of Purab Premium Apartments have already demanded to cancel their allotments and to refund their money. The applicants wants to opt out as the government has put a five-year lock-in period for sale or transfer of the flats under the scheme. Most of the applicants said that they were not aware [...] Continue Reading »
The natural resources like forests are abolished in Himachal Pradesh by the construction of real estate projects. The wild animals are suffering from the reduction of the forests and the water resources along with the aquatic fauna are threatening by the dumping muck and debris into the riverside and its streams. The commission has recommended [...] Continue Reading »
The Kolkata Municipal Development Authority has demolished the slums in Nonadanga on March 30th. But 130 families had refused to give up and they started living under the open sky. To protest against the demolish of the slum, activists went for a hunger strike. After a 14 days strike, the activists achieved the reconstruction assurance [...] Continue Reading »
