Civic Issues
BBMP commissioner ordered BBMP officials to cancel the licences of garbage contractors if they do not start off with the work. The Councillor of Vidyaranyapura ward said that BVG India Ltd has taken the garbage contract four months ago but still it has not started with the work. BVG India Ltd has neither supplied materials [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- A revision of property tax rates in residential areas in Chandigarh will be performed by the committee of local bodies department. The Municipal corporation had imposed nominal property tax of Re 1 per square yard annually on residential properties having an area above 125 square yard. This amount paid will be restricted to Rs [...] Continue Reading »
Commercial property located within a radius of one kilometre from any metro line in Delhi is likely to witness a hike in property tax very soon. The three new municipal corporation heads have given a positive nod for the move. Considering the assembly elections scheduled next year, residential properties will be excluded from the hike. [...] Continue Reading »
The new property tax system proposed by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been challenged by a PIL in the Bombay High Court recently. The new property tax bill will be applicable from April 1, 2013 but has been caught amidsr many controversies. An activist named Rajendra Thacker has filed the PIL which states that the [...] Continue Reading »
Within the next two months, Noida authority will upgrade the two sewage treatment plants (STPs) located in Sector 50 and 54. The authority wants to make Noida a ‘zero discharge city’, so it has decided to upgrade the technology to the sequential batch reactor (SBR) technology. This new technology will make sure that better quality [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally managed to recover Rs 8 crore of a total due amount of Rs 628 crore from the developers in Mumbai. After the modification of the fee structure to recover dues, the civic body is yet to recover Rs 71 crore, while the remaining Rs 549 crore will be collected [...] Continue Reading »
M Visvesvaraya Layout, located near Nagarbhavi, is a BDA layout in Bangalore which is presently experiencing a difficult situation of water crisis. The layout in the western part of Bangalore is facing acute water shortage problem as land ownership issues have blocked a crucial water supply project. M Visvesvaraya Layout was developed before the cursed [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has claimed that it will remove all the illegal hoardings and boards in Mumbai within 24 hours. The drive is being taken forward by the civic body as per Bombay High Court’s order. As per the high court order, all the political hoardings and banners will be removed within the stipulated [...] Continue Reading »
Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation(PCMC) is set to put boundaries on all the lands as marked in the development plan (DP). The civic body is not able to acquire many of them, so it has not developed many of these plots. As per the engineering department of PCMC, the land demarcations will be done whichever are [...] Continue Reading »
The new property tax system by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been opposed by the real estate builders. The developers have even showed their support to consumer associations protesting against the tax system. According to the new system, the property tax is computed based on the capital value of the property as against the earlier system of going [...] Continue Reading »
