Civic Issues
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently spent public funds to fill up a pond which is supposed to be a heritage property. BMC has invested Rs 5.25 crore to fill a 100 year old pond located at Kandivali West with debris. The pond belongs to the collector and not the civic body, still BMC [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad – With the financial year nearing, civic bodies all over India are coming up with new strategies to collect property tax dues. In this regard, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has directed that if a building is detected to be out of tax net of the civic body, the owner evading property tax will have to [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been directed by the Supreme Court to clear down six illegal buildings at Worli Naka. The six buildings have occupants who have moved into the units twenty five years back. The illegal buildings which include Esha Ekta, Patel, Orchid, BY, Midtown, and Shubh had been constructed by four seperate developers [...] Continue Reading »
Vijayawada – Vijayawada Municipal Corporation is planning to increase water tax in the city due to overburden of power surcharge. On a regular basis, around Rs 20 crore is being spent towards supplying drinking water in the city. As of now, the revenue being collected through water tax is around Rs 8 crore. Now the [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP plans to take over a major part of land from the farmers of Karenhalli, 35 kms away from Bangalore in Ramangaram district, to set up a solid waste management plant. In return, they plan to give the farmers only a Transferable Development Right (TDR) certificate. As there is a likeliness that there might be a [...] Continue Reading »
As a new tax collection strategy the South Municipal corporation Property Tax department recently announced its employee incentive scheme. This new scheme directs at refining the employee work culture within the property tax department and to motivate them to perform better and meet desired targets. According to the incentive scheme, the zone will be eligible [...] Continue Reading »
Coimbatore – With the financial year nearing; civic bodies all over India are coming up with new strategies to collect property tax dues. One such scenario made news in Coimbatore, where the Coimbatore Corporation is sending reminders through the India Post’s ePost service. Last month, Coimbatore Corporation sent around 5,000 mails through ePost. The civic body [...] Continue Reading »
With the increasing population and vehicles on road, it has become difficult to park vehicles within the stipulated area. No worries! Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has thought of an initiative to put an end to parking woes. If everything goes fine and the proposal gets approved, some of the areas in South Mumbai will be [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Development Plan (DP) has again gone into troubles after some of the corporators raised issues during a recent general body (GB) meeting of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The ruling party and others managed to get their resolutions passed in this meeting but some were not happy with the resolutions and hinted that they would be moving [...] Continue Reading »
The Budget 2013 does not hold any hope for Bangalore which has been reeling under garbage crisis. Moreover, the two big landfills at Mandur and Mavallipura area a great failure. Member of the Supreme Court appointed committee says that waste- to- energy and industrial solution projects are not applicable. Environmentally, they are risky as they [...] Continue Reading »
