Municipality
The revised development plan which was suggested for old city by the elected members of Pune Municipal Corporation have to wait another month to see the light of the day. The civic body has claimed that it will take at least a month to publish and display the plan. Earlier, PMC had approved the development [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently carried out a demolition drive of illegal constructions in the city. The illegal constructions were standing tall in KarveNagar, Warje, Wanowrie and Kondhwa in Pune. These buildings were spread across 40,000 square feet. The KarvenagarWarje ward office and the deputy commissioner office of Wanowrie and Kondhwa initiated the demolition [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seemed to have juggled up the guidelines to calculate the new property tax system. The property tax under the capital value-based system has missed out on some key factors to compute the same. The civic body has not taken into account several factors like leased and freehold land as well [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- Water problems in Chennai has always been an issue resulting in conflicts with the neighboring state. Perhaps the problems have come to an end as the city’s water supply will be boosted with the additional supply from the Veeranam Lake. According to an official from the water board department, the Veeranam Lake which contains 0.03 thousand million [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations (BMC) has finally listened to the citizens’ woes. The civic body has taken steps to make the new property tax system transparent to the public. To start with, Stamp duty Ready Reckoner (SDRR) rates are now displayed on the official website of the civic body. The RR rates form the base value [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to give health insurance of up to Rs 3 lakh for those citizens who have paid property tax this year. A whopping property tax of Rs 2,156 crore has been collected this year, contributed by about 15 lakh owners of properties in Mumbai. According to BMC these property tax [...] Continue Reading »
As per data with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), around 81 % of the properties in Mumbai remain unaffected from the recent hike in property tax. With the new capital value-based property tax system in place, the citizens have been unhappy regarding the same and many plan to contest in High Court. However, 81% of [...] Continue Reading »
The provision of suggesting civic budget by the citizens in Pune seems to be failing. Pune Municipal Corporation is not able to implement the suggestions, despite having budgetary provisions. The civic body had launched the initiative of citizens’ participation in the preparation of budget in 2007-08. After the launch, it has seen an increase in [...] Continue Reading »
As the elections are on top, Delhi government took the agenda to redevelop Chandni Chowk all over again this year. Moving aside the North municipal corporation of Delhi, Chief Minister of Delhi entrusted that the redevelopment work should be given to Government’s Public Works Department (PWD) for better and master development. CM ensured that traffic [...] Continue Reading »
BMC has claimed that no new taxes and charges will be included in the BMC budget to be announced for 2013-14 financial year. Also, the civic body is unlikely to announce any new projects or schemes in the next fiscal year. BMC is all set to recover Rs 29,000 crore to Rs 30,000 crore budget [...] Continue Reading »
