Municipality
A ‘cool roof’ is one treated with a coating to reduce the amount of absorbed solar radiation and heat. Research suggests that such roofs are more reflective that the conventional ones. Leading to savings on your AC bill. This, in turn, reduces carbon emissions and helps in promoting a cooler and a greener planet. To [...] Continue Reading »
For the past three years, the BBMP and the BDA have been at loggerheads over the issue of building plan approvals and Occupancy Certificates (OC). The fight intensified after the elected body in the Palike came into being last year. The BBMP Bangalore has drawn up a list of 583 buildings within the BBMP limits, [...] Continue Reading »
For property buying in Pune, Zone certificate and the part-plan are important. PCMC Pune making a digital record of the Development Plan (DP). Making a digital record will help keep the fraudsters away and this will help citizens get the zone certificate and land survey numbers of fringe areas on the click of a mouse. [...] Continue Reading »
The gated community National Media Centre (NMC) on the Gurgaon Expressway has moved the court seeking stay on the acquisition, also sought police protection. The land Huda was claiming to take control of from NMC was the property of the society in the revenue record. “The matter has been moved in the division bench of [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Sukhdev Vihar spar in court over waste-to-energy plant. Another twist witnessed during the ongoing hearing in the Delhi High Court on Monday. While the counsel for the Residents’ Welfare Association (RWA) adduced a note claiming that the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) had given a consent to run it in January last [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) has made it mandatory for an allottee to plant a few evergreen trees in their premises.The rule holds true not only for residential areas, but commercial, institutional and industrial plots as well. All allottees have to fulfill this condition. If you are planning to construct a house in [...] Continue Reading »
Over one lakh illegal buildings in Chennai not only cause a strain on civic infrastructure but also attack the foundations of a law-governed society. Areas like Sowcarpet, T Nagar and Mylapore, continue to add more FSI, causing congestion in narrow bylanes, clogging of sewer lines, and reducing water supply in pipelines. In areas like Adyar, [...] Continue Reading »
The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) has decided to install solar-wind hybrid LED streetlights in its jurisdiction. Hybrid LED streetlights in SCB cantonment area would reduce electricity bills in the cantonment area. For the first time in the country, the SCB has decided to use this technology. A US-based firm has come forward to install 10 [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Delhi-NCR won’t witness broken roads this monsoon. The civic agency claimed it has improved the methods used to maintain city roads. MCD Delhi also said it has adopted methods of specification like its civic counterpart CPWD, to test the material used for the repair of roads so that no contractor allows use of [...] Continue Reading »
Fund-crunched BBMP Bangalore started serving notices property tax defaulters. In the first phase of the drive, the focus is more on the properties that have to pay tax to the tune of more than Rs one lakh. BBMP has started serving notices to property tax defaulters in Mahadevapura zone. There are 180 such properties in [...] Continue Reading »
