Municipality
The BMC has made an attempt for the betterment of senior citizens, by framing a special policy which will be executed from October 1, observed as International Day for Senior Citizens. A new committee for the welfare of senior citizens will be formed. The Federation of Senior Citizens Organisations, Maharashtra (FESCOM) has presented a proposal [...] Continue Reading »
At the BBMP Budget session on Wednesday, Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, D Venkatesh Murthy, announced that all 198 corporators should take up an ‘andolan’ to ban plastic in their respective Wards. He added that whoever is successful in this campaign will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. Though the Palike had taken [...] Continue Reading »
Annoyed by the issue of lesser water supply, the residents of JC Nagar, Bangalore blocked the streets to express their anger on Sunday. The agitated residents gathered at the main signal junction near Shivaji Talkies on JC Road and blocked the traffic. The residents of SJ Park, Vinobha Nagar, Journalists’ Colony, Doddamavalli and Sudhama Nagar [...] Continue Reading »
An environmental researcher, Arshinder Pasricha, has been raising her voice against residents’ burning of leaves practice in Mohali for the past couple of months. Few of the Resident Welfare Associations have also joined her in this effort. She says that usually, the employees of the Municipal Corporation burn leaves and other related stuff. But now, [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage trucks of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMD) were attacked by some people living near Bandhan party plot on SG Highway, on Sunday evening. Angry residents threw stones at garbage trucks as they were unhappy with the allotment of space in the area for garbage dumping. The local people had been protesting for long against the [...] Continue Reading »
Due to opposition from locals, the Pune Municipal Corporation‘s (PMC) efforts to decentralise garbage processing has halted with the state and civic body failing to acquire land to set up the processing units. A civic official said, the civic body had forwarded 17 land acquisition proposals to the district collector and some were finalised by the state [...] Continue Reading »
As monsoon is on its way for many parts of India, it looks like GHMC Hyderabad is not bothered to get prepared to face the monsoon. There are still many places in the city where desiltation of the nalas is only half done and the civic body’s disaster management cell do not have enough manpower [...] Continue Reading »
Recently, Odisha cabinet has decided to increase the land valuation which will in turn increase the holding tax in the state making it a burden on residents in Bhubaneswar. The land valuation is by general administration (GA) department in the city and it will be increased to match the benchmark valuation of revenue department. The [...] Continue Reading »
Surplus delay in a realty project has caused extreme damage to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). A delay of 13 years has occurred in construction of a market building in Unit IV, Bhubaneswar. Panchdeep Market Complex, an eight-storied market, has been under construction for the past 13 years. The work, which was a joint venture of [...] Continue Reading »
As the new projects under second phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) are being assigned to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), old projects under JNNURM-I worth Rs 800 crore still lie unfinished. The actual deadline given was 2012 but the center gave extra time till 2014. A total of ten projects are [...] Continue Reading »
