Municipality
In a major relief to over five lakh site owners in the city, the BBMP council on Wednesday approved recommendations for the amendment of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, which enables site owners to obtain khata by paying improvement and conversion fees to the BBMP. According to the taxation and finance committee chairman P N [...] Continue Reading »
For more than three years now, the residents of eight posh apartment blocks on Ranka Colony Road in Bilekahalli Bangalore are managing with a narrow strip of mud road next to the dug-up area. Many of the apartments are vacant, only because there is no approach road. Thanks to BBMP suddenly changing its mind and [...] Continue Reading »
The Madras High Court has directed the Chennai Corporation to take appropriate action within four weeks against a building owner for running a service apartment without drainage and sewage connections. A private firm building which is being used as a service apartment does not have sewage and drainage connection, so the owner clears the sewage [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of maduravoyal-Chennai raise stink over dumping yard near school. Residents say seepage from the dump has polluted groundwater, making it unfit for use. Besides the stench, heaps of domestic waste, plastic and rotting carcasses pose serious health risk to residents. Garbage from Porur and Virugambakkam is dumped in the yard everyday. Neighbours complained of [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of the upscale Sadashivanagar had wanted the civic authorities to either restrict movement of vehicles on 18th cross road or to provide them with more parking space. BBMP responded to it, saying it would widen the road at the cost of pavements to give residents their desired parking space. Now the civic body [...] Continue Reading »
Updated on 30-9-2014 Latest circular to Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP’s) revenue officials asked them to start collecting betterment charges for regularising sites which came into existence through land conversions. It is estimated that these collection of betterment charges would levy additional Rs. 500 crore revenue for the Palike with the fixed betterment charges ranging [...] Continue Reading »
An amendment to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) Act was made in August 2009 to make rainwater harvesting system (RWH) mandatory for new constructions and a nine-month deadline for existing buildings but there was confusion as the specifics were not clear. The government now cleared the air by issuing the necessary guidelines [...] Continue Reading »
Everybody involved in the TDR (transferable development rights) tangle seems to have forgotten a simple truth. The TDR was a scheme meant to preserve open spaces and heritage buildings in the heart of a city, moving development to outskirts. But in Bangalore, it has morphed into taking chunks of land away from home owners. BBMP, [...] Continue Reading »
The idea to have underground parking lots beneath playgrounds was mooted some months ago in view of the acute paucity of land for parking spaces. The BBMP is going ahead with parking slots under some playgrounds but there has been no public notice on this hotly-debated project, which was once declared “shelved”. Malleswaram residents say [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP will send notices to the property tax defaulters of 2008-09 and 2009-10 across Bangalore to adhere to the payments, failing which the civic body would attach properties of the defaulters for the year 2010-11.Fed up with the poor response despite several reminders to meet the tax payment deadline of November 29, the Bruhat Bangalore [...] Continue Reading »
