Civic Issues
Companies in Indore are no longer orphan and are under constant vigil by the industry department. The defaulter companies that have not worked as per the rules of the department are to lose their land. The flouting of norms include not initiating any work on the land allotted to them or selling the plots to [...] Continue Reading »
Gone are the days when colourful advertisements used to attract consumers. This holds true with Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s (BWSSB) advertisement about rain water harvesting. December 31 has been set the target date for installing rainwater harvesting structures in the housing complexes. For this, many advertisements have been put up by BWSSB which [...] Continue Reading »
It is an indigestible fact that the Cauvery water which we drink is getting mixed with the sewage overflow. This is how, the residents are being responsible for consuming Cauvery water as well as polluting it! Today, Bangalore municipal authorities are treating hardly 10 percent of sewage water and the rest of then are either [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Chennai are fed up with the garbage management system kept by the Chennai City Corporation. Even though there are sufficient dumping yards in the city, the illegal dumping has not been stopped. The resident complain saying that they expected the corporation to keep the work updated after the local body elections. This hope [...] Continue Reading »
Soon the age old delayed riverfront is set to open for the citizens and developers for projects. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) had set a project on the 3.5 km stretch called Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corp. Ltd (SRFDC), 14 years back. After much wait, it has been opened again for real estate development, urban infrastructure, public [...] Continue Reading »
The Patna Municipal Corporation’s (PMC’s) planning department is on high alert taking action against the realty defaulters. To act against building violation and unauthorized construction, Patna civc body has filed badly. The residents belonging to Gayatri Kunj Apartments complained the civic body longback about the expansion of the apartment beyond permissible floor area ratio (FAR). [...] Continue Reading »
The residents are spared of to bear stinking sewage overflowing form the pumping station. However, the situations will remain same no more, as the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) will soon be ‘geo-fencing’ all the sewage pumping stations. This Off-Site Real Time Monitoring System will be monitoring the level of sewage in [...] Continue Reading »
The property buyers will be relaxed to know that they do not have to shell out extra on property tax next year. Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has announced no hike in property tax in 2012-13 and it will be the same as this year. The proposal was doing rounds from November 19 and it has [...] Continue Reading »
Its an era of social media networking! The residents of Bangalore can now tweet the problems regarding overflowing garbage, sewage, irregular water supply. In respect to same, BBMP commissioner M K Shankarlinge Gowda has recently opened a twitter (social media networking site) account. He has requested all the residents to just tweet him whatever civic problems [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai today is well known for its infrastructure, IT, tourist places, business, real estate and many more but on whole it has been proved that, there is an utter lack of civic sense. It is the citizens and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) who are to be blamed for the poor civic sense. Almost each [...] Continue Reading »
