Municipality
As Bangalore traffic is increasing, there is need to plan things afresh to adapt the increasing number of vehicles. A signal island will soon come up at KR Circle, as decided by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) following a plea from Bangalore Traffic Police. The Sheshadri Road, linking Anand Rao Circle and K R Circle, [...] Continue Reading »
To improve the level of sanitation in Gurgaon, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) is considering to procure machines to clean, collect and dump garbage. Till now, the streets are cleaned by workers. However, the civic body aims to replace manual cleaning of roads and to improve efficiency in work. Sources say that a machine [...] Continue Reading »
Before Ganeshotsav, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was under pressure from mandals and politicians to fill the potholes on roads. After the festival is over, the mandals are facing the heat of the municipal body. Ganesh mandals are being criticized for not filling up the pits that had been dug to erect pandals during Ganeshotsav. BMC [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has claimed that its garbage segregation strategy has met with ‘partial success’ and that there has been a huge demand for wet waste. As reports of segregation failing in many parts of the city appeared in the media, the civic body has put forward the example of Yelahanka zone [...] Continue Reading »
Ludhiana residents are irked over chemical waste being dumped on banks of a canal. Large quantities of industrial waste were dumped on the canal banks near Rara Sahib and the culprit has not been nabbed yet. People in the southwestern part of the state drink water from this canal and use the water for irrigating [...] Continue Reading »
Hundreds of residents of Rajajinagar and Malleswaram have given vent their anger against Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL). The residents are angry over the devastating condition of Maha Kavi Kuvempu (MKK) Road. Gathered under the platform of Save Bangalore Committee (SBC), the residents, who claimed that they had suppressed their anger for over two [...] Continue Reading »
Deolali Cantonment Board in Nashik is facing serious crisis due to lack of infrastructure in the face of rising population and emergence of new localities in Deolali. To address the issues and to develop the infrastructure, the Cantonment Board is looking forward to a financial aid of Rs 70 crore from the Centre. The Board [...] Continue Reading »
Four residents of Bhagwat Nagar in Patna have gone on fast-unto-death to protest the anti-encroachment drive by Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) and district administration. The civic authorities have started the demolition drive complying with the order of the Supreme Court. As many as 266 houses were built allegedly in the locality without their design approval [...] Continue Reading »
The newly invented plan by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to clear the garbage will be implemented from October 1. Owing to this, the flat owners of Sovereign Park apartments in Basavangudi are panic stricken as the BBMP has issued a notification to put residential high-rises on par with commercial entities. This notification grouped them [...] Continue Reading »
The demolition drive in Pimpri Chinchwad is significant as it has continued despite stiff opposition. A whopping 1.1 lakh constructions were found to be unauthorised and its owners have been sent notices by the civic administration in the last four months. To start with, the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to raze constructions [...] Continue Reading »
