Civic Issues
After being appointed as HUDA administrator on November 2011, Praveen Kumar has done many good things for the betterment of the city. The residents of apartments in Gurgaon had high hopes and he had fulfilled many of them like removed encroachments along the roads in many sectors, developed parks, repaired damaged roads to name a [...] Continue Reading »
Those were the days when Vasant Kunj residents used to sight nilgai, deer, and wild hare easily in the 600-acre kikar forest. Now, with the rising urbanization and increase in population, one can only see traffic, mounds of construction rubble and garbage. The Rajokri forest, which used to be a forest reserve, now has become [...] Continue Reading »
Earth Day has been a motivation all over the world to keep the locality clean and dirt free. Residents in Chennai also motivated did their part by cleaning up their neighbourhood, beaches and locality. But experts say that these one day will hardly put any impact in residents’ mind and they should work on daily [...] Continue Reading »
The environmental condition in Gurgaon is deteriorating day by day. Besides infrastructural development, water, air, and noise pollution levels are also on a rise. Activists say that there is still hope but only if the residents of the city act. There are many reasons to be worried about like water scarcity, water pollution and ground [...] Continue Reading »
The state government of Maharashtra has amended the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations (BPMC), Act, 1949. The amendment will now not only ensure action against relevant builders but also hold civic officers responsible if they fail in their duty in restricting the construction of illegal structure. According to the Act the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has planned to construct over 5,000 rainwater harvesting structures across the city. According to a corporation official, the structures will be constructed at 30-metre intervals at every third storm water drain inlet. A bore well pipe would be placed inside the inlets. Sand and blue metal would be filled in the pipe [...] Continue Reading »
The sources of drinking water for Nandigama Municipality are not enough to meet the increasing demand of the local body. People are forced to depend on the groundwater which is highly contaminated by fluoride content. The Municipality is not able to maintain the supply of the drinking water at the localities in Krishna district. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra government has planned to initiate Urban Malnutrition Mission from next month. As the non governmental organizations have pointed out the fact that adequate health service is not available in the apartments in urban Maharashtra, the government has decided to promote the health service at the places. The infant mortality rate has been recorded [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Madikeri are disposing the waste, garbages beside the roads which is increasing the unhealthy atmosphere of the tourist town. The City Municipality Council has put in place a mechanism for disposal of waste and the council also appealed to all the residents not to throw waste into the drain and on the [...] Continue Reading »
Serviced apartments is right now one of the major real estate attraction in Bangalore city. Meanwhile, the property tax department had requested state government to add serviced apartments under commercial property tax net. This plan was a seeded by namma Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP). The process is right now on hold! Having a rough [...] Continue Reading »
