Municipality
Faced with poor recovery of tax arrears, the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has decided to gear up for fast recovery of the dues. MMC has drawn up plans to constitute two teams – one each for Margao and Fatorda – to expedite the recovery process. The teams would comprise of a supervisor and a couple [...] Continue Reading »
The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC)‘s crusade against tax defaulters continues. On Monday IMC attached seven properties including houses, flats, schools and commercial units and issued attachment notices to three for non-payment of property tax. The properties attached have tax dues between Rs 70,000 and Rs 3 lakh. The civic administration says that more properties will [...] Continue Reading »
Old and decaying underground utilities have worsened the road conditions in Mumbai as many of them have been suffered cave-ins recently. Pedder Road, Dr E Moses Road and Dr Annie Besant Road are among those roads who have witnessed cave-ins and portions of the roads have collapsed. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) do not have [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh residents are facing acute water supply crunch. As against a demand of 116 Million Gallons Daily (MGD), the city is presently receiving 90 MGD, which includes 80 MGD from Kajauli water works and another 10 MGD from tube wells. The local Municipal Corporation would supply additional 3 MGD to Military Engineers Services (MES) in [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai’s current water stock is at its highest in four years. However, the civic body will still not be able to supply the extra water needed to reduce the city’s water deficit from the Middle Vaitarna project this year. Two components of the project – a tunnel and a water treatment plant, which are being [...] Continue Reading »
The newly constructed buildings in Mumbai lack rainwater harvesting system. The fact has been brought into notice by social activists. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) made it mandatory for the new buildings to have rain water harvesting system in 2007. The civil administration has allocated about Rs1 crore to the rain water harvesting cell under the [...] Continue Reading »
The Pune Municipal Corporation(PMC) has prepared a list of nearly 10,000 property tax defaulters. The defaulters have more than Rs 1 lakh property tax dues per head. The PMC has revealed that it has to recover around Rs 100 crore from these defaulters. The civic administration issued notices to these people and has demanded that [...] Continue Reading »
The commuters of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) in Hyderabad will have to pay toll charges based on the distance travelled on the eight-lane stretch. Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has decided to start collecting toll on the southern arc of the ORR from Pedda Amberpet to Patancheru. As per the National Highway Authority of [...] Continue Reading »
The marriage palace owners in Patiala have been imposed tax, because of dumping garbage on municipal sites/land. Punjab Pollution Control Board has directed all marriage palace owners to procure no objection certificates (NOC) from Patiala municipal corporation about proper garbage disposal. It has also fixed Rs 7,000 per month charges for marriage palaces in the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) has challenged a Bombay High Court (HC) verdict asking it to pay an amount of Rs 50 crore as collective bonus to 40,000 employees. The BMC has been arguing that it has no responsibility to pay bonus as employees had struck work last year. The BMC employees had gone to strike last [...] Continue Reading »
