Civic Issues
Minister of housing and urban development has announced the expansion of Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA) which will now also cover Arakkonam taluk in Vellore district and entire Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts. Under this effect, a substantial portions of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts will be included in Chennai Mega region. The existing jurisdiction of CMA was [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is developing a video feature on its pothole-tracking website to upload videos. The website for this purpose was launched in November 2011 and currently, the citizens can upload only pictures clicked through their android phones. Very soon, uploading the videos of the potholes in the city will be an option. The [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently received a record breaking revenue from the allotment of building permissions in the financial year 2012-13. The building permissions department of the civic body has received around Rs 631 crore as fees for construction including development charges. The high revenue received has been so due to the revision of [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started a survey in every ward to identify buildings which have been constructed on top of water pipelines in the city. Recently, a major water pipeline under a building in Govandi has bursted which took life of a resident leading the civic body to go on with this move. Now, two [...] Continue Reading »
The biogas plant project proposed by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in Bangalore is not ready till now. Palike officials said that six more months will be required to complete the project. The plant designs to convert tonnes of waste generated at Krishna Raja Market to power. The BBMP will provide 600 square meters [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- According to the latest report prepared by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), traces of fluoride, nitrate and iron has been found in groundwater in most of the districts of Andhra Pradesh. The report was tabled last month in Lok Sabha meeting. It said that nitrate has been found above the permissible limit (45 mg [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi-NCR: Currently, the population of Delhi and its suburban areas is nearly 21 million and by 2025, the number is expected to grow to 28.6 million, says the UN State of The World’s Cities report. However, this is a real bad news for the city which is already left with no space to bear more [...] Continue Reading »
Noida: Noida and Ghaziabad are witnessing continuous power cut issues for a week though discom officials alleged that the situation is improving slowly. Several residents of apartments in Ghaziabad claimed that there was around 8-10 hours of power outages on Sunday. Noida residents also complained that they faced power-cuts of 3-4 hours. However, discom officials [...] Continue Reading »
Due to water scarcity, contamination of water and diseases, the government of Karnataka may have to vacate half of Bangalore in the next ten years. According to sources, lab results at the Public Health Institution and the Department of Mines and Geology of the state government revealed that 52 percent of the borewell water and [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- Soon, the residents of Chennai will be able to pay their property tax in all 200 wards of the city. In this regard, the Chennai Corporation has directed the zonal level officers to identify suitable structures for setting up counters. The work of listing existing facilities in all wards would be initiated in next [...] Continue Reading »
