Municipality
Residents of the Chitlapakkam town panchayat are living in fear of the being swamped with the sewage. Following the recent rain, sewage and rain water flowing through a channel has overflowed and stagnated the area of vacant land. Local residents fear that if no action is taken, the situation will become worse with the coming [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sources say that expenditure on solid waste management may come down soon. The civic body spends around Rs 400 crore on solid waste management at present. The contractors participated in the new garbage tenders had quoted up to 40 per cent less. With relaxation of terms and conditions in [...] Continue Reading »
The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation has gone hi-tech with SMS services. The citizens can now get notifications about water, sewerage bills and house tax on their cell phones. The authority would send texts to the registered cellphone numbers of its consumers informing them of the due dates and even receipts. The civic body is preparing an [...] Continue Reading »
In order to reduce the burden of ever-increasing property registration work, 31 sub-registrar offices will be opened in the state of Maharashtra. Property registration is the second highest revenue generating source in the state and at present public has to spend a lot of time to register their property at offices. A proposal seeking additions to [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seems to have found an answer to detect pipeline leaks. BMC’s water supply department has been using this method to detect leakages in the supply lines in the C ward (Marine Lines) of the island city and the T ward (Mulund) in the suburbs. Now the civic body has decided [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally taken steps to get a team of independent experts to conduct a technical audit of pothole repairs of Mumbai roads. The audit is to start from next week and it will examine why the BMC had failed to rid roads of potholes this monsoon despite introducing cold-mix technology [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi government is to carry out surveys in 895 unauthorised colonies which were regularised last month. The surveys will be carried out to find out the basic infrastructural requirement of the colonies. According to sources, public agencies like PWD and DSIIDC will carry out the surveys following which developmental works will be started in [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi buildings are all set to get more floor area. After Union development minister Kamal Nath declared that development of Delhi would go vertical, the mid-term review of the Master Plan 2021 seems to have put a step forward to realise the vision. Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has invited objections and suggestions for the first [...] Continue Reading »
25% of the one lakh autorickshaws in Mumbai are now fitted with electronic meters. Transport authorities made it mandatory for all autorickshaws that applied for registration or for renewal of the annual driving permit after March to have an electronic meter. By the end of August, e-meters had been installed in 27,435 autorickshaws. April 2013 [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Malleswaram, Bangalore have shown the way to manage the waste in a neat manner. They have launched a project ‘My Malleswaram’, to dispose of waste scientifically. The project will be carried out in association with BBMP, where 90 per cent of the wet waste collected from houses and commercial establishments in Malleswaram will [...] Continue Reading »
