Maintenance
Residents of Patna gathered on roads at Kurji, Digha and Durja to protest against the pathetic condition of the ghats. Less than a week is left for the most popular Hindu festival and the district administration is not taking any action to clean the ghats for the pooja. It seems that the administration has no [...] Continue Reading »
In a move to improve the street lighting in the city, the Chennai Corporation is planning to privatise maintenance operations. The civic body is to call short-term tenders for repairing and maintenance of streetlights. After complains from residents, the civic body will immediately replace defunct tube lights or mercury vapor lamps or other electrical equipment. [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the maintenance work carried out by power distribution company BSES Yamuna Power Ltd (BYPL) in areas of East and Central Delhi, the supply of electricity from (10 am- 5 pm) will be hampered for about 15 days starting from November 14. The maintenance work is carried out to maintain their infrastructure. This work will be followed by the company to [...] Continue Reading »
Compared to the last year’s Diwali celebrations in Delhi, this year’s Diwali has increased the waste by about 1,200 tonnes with heaps of crackers, wrappers and sweet boxes. About 1,000-1,200 metric tonnes of Diwali waste was generated this year according to municipal corporations. Last year’s Diwali eve had generated about 5,785 tonnes of waste and on [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which has failed to resolve the matter of garbage crisis in the city is now knocking at the doors of department of mines and geology. In a meeting with the deputy chief minister KS Eshwarappa and the ministers for large scale medium scale industries Murgesh Nirani regarding this issue, [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Subhash Nagar have decided to fill a dug up road by themselves after being tired of complaining to the civic authorities. The dug up in the middle of the road resulted in several accidents and yet the authorities did not take any action. Not only the dug up road, missing streetlights also [...] Continue Reading »
To fulfill the most cherished dream of having roads to connect the remote areas of Manipur, Assam and Nagaland, about 100 Northeast villagers are working hard towards collecting funds to complete the road construction. The deadline will be until Christmas. An example, wherein a resident from Manipur’s remote Phoklong village has contributed Rs 1,000 from his old-age pension for the [...] Continue Reading »
No road has been constructed in Hadibettu village from past 20 years. After repeated complaints to the authorities, the people out of frustration or resourcefulness, pooled in their own money and built the road. Around 75 families of Uppinakudru finally fulfilled their dream, when a newly-constructed road was inaugurated. The initiative was taken by locals [...] Continue Reading »
Angry villagers at the landfill site, of Old Madras Road, near Hoskote, blocked Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara palike (BBMP) trucks from disposing garbage and refused to heed warnings by the police posted in the village. Since they are left with no option, BBMP would continue dumping waste in Mandur. The garbage crisis took an ugly face in [...] Continue Reading »
A statement passed by the Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte, last month about the re-development of about 300 proposed heritage structures has created confusion among the civic bodies, i.e. the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) and the state government. It was said by the municipal commissioner that the re-development of the projects will continue uninterrupted due [...] Continue Reading »
