Municipality
Taking a good initiative, Confederation of Real Estate and Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) has come forward to contribute its support to Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) against malaria. CREDAI has agreed to provide vehicles fitted with GPS. Each vehicle with six personnel will visit construction sites and monitor it for conditions that allow mosquito larvae [...] Continue Reading »
The garbage disposal issue seems to have irked the residents of Bangalore as well as the court. The high court has issued notices to the state government, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and Karnataka Slum Clearance Board (KSCB) in a public interest petition related to the garbage disposal system in the [...] Continue Reading »
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to launch a project to increase and improve open spaces in the city. The BMC has allocated Rs. 1 crore in the civic budget for 2012-13 for consultation to carry out the Mumbai’s Open Space project. The main objective is to add open spaces to the city. The [...] Continue Reading »
To check the depleting groundwater level, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has come up with a plan to constitute a special committee. The committee is to be headed by two superintending engineers (SEs) who will visit houses in Gurgaon to check defunct water harvesting pits. As per norms, to obtain a completion certificate from [...] Continue Reading »
The Bahrut Bangalore Municipal Corporation (BBMP) is to soon generate 8 MW of power from solid waste, said M K Shankarlingegowda BBMP commissioner. This comes along with Mysore City Corporation’s (MCC) plans to convert solid waste to generate power. According to M K Shankarlingegowda, Bangalore’s plant will be the first in India and he said that he [...] Continue Reading »
The Zirakpur Municipal Corporation was directed not to sanction for construction of illegal colonies in the area by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Counsel for Zirakpur MC stated that the plans for unauthorised colonies were being sanctioned as directed by the Punjab government. However, HC puts stop on any further construction of unauthorized colonies [...] Continue Reading »
Civic corporators in Mumbai have unanimously passed a resolution at the civic general body meeting on Tuesday calling for a 150% hike in their monthly remuneration, from Rs10,000 to Rs. 25,000. If it receives legal sanction, the hike will be paid by taxpayers’ money. According to the corporators, the current remuneration is a measley sum [...] Continue Reading »
At a time when Mumbaikars are suffering from water cuts due to deficient rainfall, cloud seeding is the means the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking forward to. The BMC has decided to rope in Israel’s national water company, Mekorot for this purpose. The plan is to carry out cloud seeding operations in the areas [...] Continue Reading »
Local planning authority has sealed a six-storeyed residential apartment for violating various building norms. As per the master plan of the city, the building was being constructed on the land which has been classified as an industrial zone. Building construction was under way when officials arrived at the spot. They ordered the workers to stop [...] Continue Reading »
As traffic problem ails Bhopal, over 10 commercial complexes in the busy New Market allegedly have constructed shops in the basement reserved for parking, thus making the shops illegal. It has been pointed out as a contributing factor to clog the busy roads as visitors are forced to park their vehicles out on the road. [...] Continue Reading »
