Municipality
The property tax department of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) was able to recover Rs 560 crore as property tax for the fiscal year April 2012- February 2013. As per an official, it is for the first time that the civic body is able to collect such an amount in less than a year. The civic [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now planned to seek suggestions and objections for wastewater recycling in the city. The bylaws of wastewater recycling which was made three years ago for new properties in Mumbai was not taken seriously then. Now, the civic body want to make the recycling process mandatory and plans to ask for [...] Continue Reading »
Pune- In order to address the water supply problems due to the water scarcity, the PMC has planned a ward-level water management system. This initiative will be discussed with all the political parties in a series of meetings. According to a senior official from the water management department, although there have not been major water [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken an initiative to promote rainwater harvesting in the city. To start with, the civic body has planned of training the senior citizens of the city of good effects of saving water. This workshop was recently held in the BMC headquarters. The workshop went on for three hours which was [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has for the third time extended the deadline for getting objections and suggestions from the citizens for the existing land use (ELU) maps. Since January 24, deadlines have been shifted twice. Now it has been extended for another month. BMC had got around 3,000 responses on the last day of giving [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- The government of India has made a budgetary provision to promote setting up of waste-to-energy (WTE) plants in this year’s budget. Following the government’s measure on funding WTE plants, a debate has been started whether this was really needed or not. Waste management has become a muddle across many cities of India nowadays. In [...] Continue Reading »
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has started demolishing illegal buildings in Hauz Khas. The corporation successfully demolished two illegal constructions in the Hauz Khas village. As per officials, stringent action will be taken against all the illegal constructions taken place after February 2007. This issue was highlighted in the media and was also discussed in [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has got around 3,000 responses on the last day of giving suggestions for the existing land use (ELU) maps. With just one day remaining, 3,000 people came out with suggestions and feedback on the deadline day. At least two months of period was given to the citizens to respond to the [...] Continue Reading »
Pune- The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has failed to recover the rent amount of Rs. 7.25 crore from 1,555 shops over several years. This has come into light through the Right to Information Act response by the corporation. According to an official, there are about 1,555 civic body shops which are either rented or leased [...] Continue Reading »
Now that Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given grace period for the citizens to pay their property tax by March 31, it is not able to collect pending revenue from several central and state government agencies for the past several years. According to a data, BMC has to collect property tax worth Rs 155 crore on central [...] Continue Reading »
