Municipality
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has announced that it is planning to provide canal water to builders for construction purposes. While the details and the procedure is to be finalized soon, HUDA officials state that canal water supply is likely to increase by the end of this month. Till then, the builders will have [...] Continue Reading »
Noida Authority has demolished several unauthorised constructions spreading across 25,000 square metre land in two villages along the Greater Noida Expressway. Constructions worth Rs 500 crore have been demolished in Shahdara and Nalgarha villages. While unauthorised construction on 10,000 square metre land in Shahdara village has been demolished, unauthorised construction on a 15,000 square metre [...] Continue Reading »
Like residents of Bangalore, the hotels, malls, offices, convention halls and educational institutions have also been asked to start waste segregation from Oct. 1 by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike(BBMP). They have been asked not only segregate waste into dry and wet but also to compost wet waste within their premises or pay to hand it [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will float tenders by this month-end for construction of over 200 new road in 2012-13. The civil body has made a budgetary allocation of Rs 950 crore for roads, including pending work from last fiscal. According to officials, construction work of 129 of 171 major roads have been completed in [...] Continue Reading »
Surat may become the first city in India to make solar water heating mandatory in all buildings – residential and commercial. Union urban development ministry had made it mandatory that civic bodies of all 58 cities identified to be made “solar cities” change their construction bylaws. The order was out to make solar energy compulsory for [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has decided to conduct a study on buildings including courts, police stations and police quarters yet to be covered under the property tax. The revenue department of Chennai Corporation has intensified efforts to increase property tax collection. The civic body plans to issue notices to buildings that have failed to pay property [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will begin a crackdown against illegal hoardings from today. The illegal hoardings will include posters/flex boards/bill boards put up by political personalities/supporters/organisations conveying birthday wishes/festival greetings/obituaries on the roadside, electric poles and tree trunks. The civic body has decided to produce video graphed evidence against culprits in the court [...] Continue Reading »
Rapid Metro is expected to be rolled for service in Gurgaon in April 2013. It is stated to make a difference to build up an effective transport system in the millennium city. In order to fully equip its personnel with modern transport technology, the Delhi Metro will impart lessons in a special training programme for [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities are planning to construct a new underground passage for commuters on the eastern side of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. The decision comes nearly a decade after the first subway was constructed. Railway and BMC authorities are jointly planning another underground passage to minimise the chaos created by commuters outside CST [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to categorise all potholes that have been reported as severe, medium and low priority. The prioritisation will depend upon the traffic density of the road on which the pothole is located. BMC officials state that it has decided to do so to ensure potholes on busy roads are filled at [...] Continue Reading »
