Municipality
Initially, this offer is only for property owners on Magadi Road who have to give up their land for road widening. The BBMP is now buying them from property losers to expedite road widening. The decision was taken during Tuesday’s inspection by H Ravindra, chairman, major works committee. Ravindra assured the worried 232 property owners [...] Continue Reading »
The TDR-based road widening project, which did not go down well with residential property owners, is turning out to be a lucrative business proposition for builders and land bankers.Owners who are sure of losing a large area, are open to selling their buildings. Builders, buying such properties, do the amalgamation of plots, surrender the land [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Banaswadi along with civil society groups, on Sunday, marched in protest against the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) road widening project. Holding placards and shouting slogans against road widening, the residents said that the BBMP and the Government should come out with alternative solutions to the problem of traffic congestion. Banaswadi road [...] Continue Reading »
November 29 is the last date to pay property tax for the second half of the year without penalty. Property tax for the year 2010-11 can be paid online or Bangalore One centres and at BBMP help centres where it was paid last year. Payment has to be made by cheque or DD in the [...] Continue Reading »
The Residents of the area have noticed dead fish floating on the surface of the Devera Bislahalli Lake near Marathalli Ring Road. The lake, which covers an area of 4.64 hectares, has been certified as polluted by the Palike. Residents say the water has been polluted as sewage has been released into the lake. Bruhat [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) hikes compensation for land losers for the Kadirenahalli underpass. The BBMP had initially agreed to pay Rs 1,500 per sq ft but the residents were demanding not less than Rs 3,000 a sq ft. Later, the BBMP agreed to increase the compensation amount to Rs 1,960 per sq ft [...] Continue Reading »
A day after 20 dogs, including two pets, were poisoned to death, BBMP plans awareness programme on dogs. The residents of Jakkasandra, Venkatapura and HSR Layout said stray and pet dogs were poisoned to death by feeding them kababs laced with poison early Sunday morning. Madiwala police suspect hands of some residents behind the act. [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Kengeri Bangalore, who risk their lives while crossing the railway tracks, claim that they can mobilize around Rs 4 lakh if fund-crunch is the reason why the railway authorities are not constructing a pedestrian over-bridge near Kengeri village. What prompted the appeal was an accident that took place on Thursday, in which [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) targets to sterilize around 80,000 dogs a year.The BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah and chairman of the Standing Committee on Health, B.S. Manjunath Reddy, flagged off the Action-Cum-Mobile Surgical Units for the civic authority’s Animal Birth Control (ABC) program at the BBMP head office on Friday. The vehicles will help the [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has decided to re-launch its drive against building violations. The BBMP has issued a circular to its engineers of Town Planning Department to act tough against violation of building byelaws.The Mahanagara Palike has asked ward-level engineers to carry out regular inspections and those at Town Planning Division to send the [...] Continue Reading »
