Municipality
As the city of Bangalore grapples with loads of garbage being dumped on streets and BBMP failing to find a place to dump them, finally a solution seems to be on the horizon. The BBMP council approved a proposal for purchasing 400 acres of land at Bagepalli in Chikkaballapur district for waste disposal. The civic [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has handed out contracts to new contractors. As Bangalore is reeling under uncleared garbage dumps, contracts go to new hands to clean up the city. The BBMP council has accorded approval to the new garbage tenders. As a result, the corporation got rid of the old garbage mafia and [...] Continue Reading »
South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has attached rent of 50 properties in Omaxe Square – an office centre in South Delhi. The 50 properties of different owners on second floor of Omaxe Square have been rented out to Wipro. The officials said 50 property owners collectively owe Rs 19,14,616 to the corporation. The property tax [...] Continue Reading »
Lessees and occupants of Maharashtra state government land will have to display certificates, declaring that their properties were granted by the government. A notice board has to be displayed on the building premises or on compound walls, visible to the public from now on. State government officials say that this will help the government to [...] Continue Reading »
As the government denied any financial assistance to the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), the local body, in order to raise its revenue through tax, is to issue house tax assessment notice to villages under its jurisdiction. Around 46,000 people live in 39 villages that come under the MCG’s jurisdiction and half of them has [...] Continue Reading »
The Corporation of Chennai has asked the government for permission to cut water and power supply for the property tax defaulters. An official said, only 40 % of property owners in the city pay tax for the premises they own. Generally, property tax is paid once every six months, but the corporation allows defaulters to [...] Continue Reading »
As per the negotiations between Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and villagers in Mandur, BBMP officials managed to convince some leaders of villagers in Mandur to allow unlimited number of garbage trucks to dump waste till October 29. The villagers have urged the civic body to stick to its promise and said that if BBMP [...] Continue Reading »
Five years after Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) first proposed to undertake redevelopment of Crawford Market, the civic body has now finalised tenders worth Rs 20 crore for restoration of the front heritage building. The 141-year-old front portion of the market is a notified grade one heritage structure. The city civic body decided to undertake both [...] Continue Reading »
A number of buildings came up along the ITO are due to pay property tax, said north corporation. The list of organisations includes Rajiv Bhawan, Rabri Bhawan, Chandrashekhar Bhawan and Maharaja Ranjit Singh Trust, said Mahender Nagpal, leader of the House, north corporation. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had issued notices to the defaulters to [...] Continue Reading »
The Mumbai civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), plans to restructure its water supply system to ensure equitable supply to all areas in the city. The BMC has decided that each person in the city should get at least 135 litres of water per day. Earlier, in 2009, it had set 90 litres per capita [...] Continue Reading »
