Civic Issues
Maharashtra Government has recently given green signal to the Churchgate-Virar rail project. The elevated corridor project is meant to ease the city’s suburban rail traffic. The announcement of the approval was pending for quiet a few days. The Rs 21,000 crore budget project will be implemented by the railways and the state government would help in land [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad – The activists are continuously making efforts to get the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to save the dying lakes in Hyderabad but in reality, the civic body is doing nothing to protect them. Now the GHMC has appointed a private agency to survey 175 lakes in its limits at a cost of Rs [...] Continue Reading »
District collector has recently called for a meeting to discuss about the illegal constructions which are present on the boundary of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits. The meeting was called to discuss and prepare a preliminary plan to initiate action against illegal constructions in villages. The status of such illegal buildings and also the necessary steps [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has released almost Rs 120 crore to the South corporation after the North corporation attached its banks account following non-payment of property tax dues. The duo corporation is going through loggerheads over revenue earned from property tax since long. Now north corporation wants its share in the amount released by DDA. Around [...] Continue Reading »
Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is able to spend only 42% of the total fund which was allocated to the civic body for capital intensive development works for the financial year 2012-13. Earlier, Rs 741.95 crore was provided in the 2012-13 budget which was increased to Rs 789.81 crore in the revised budget. However, the [...] Continue Reading »
Haryana- Despite the High Court order, hundreds of residents from the Polrah village refused to vacate the land. Polrah is a small village located in Kaithal district of Haryana and has been siting over a Mauryan-era historical site for more than a decade. The residents were asked to vacate the land in defiance of Punjab and [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai – After many years of negligence, the three lakes of the city in Porur, Ayanambakkam near Thiruverkadu and Nemam near Chembarambakkam will get new lease of life. The cleaning work for rejuvenating the water bodies initiated few days back. Government gave the orders to increase water capacity a year ago but this project faced [...] Continue Reading »
Nagpur- Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s water works department and Orange City Water Limited (OCWL) have together started a massive recovery and disconnection drive against water tax defaulters across the city. The Corporation, on the drive, has disconnected around 102 water supply connections, including residential buildings or houses and commercial establishments, as they failed to pay water bills. There [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad – The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) budget for 2013-14 has been approved without any hike in property tax rates. The final approval will be given by the state government soon. The corporation budget was presented by the Mayor of GHMC on February 18, 2013. The total outlay for the next financial year is [...] Continue Reading »
With the increasing protests from the citizens of Maharashtra against new property tax system, a demand for a stay on the regime has now been made to the state government. Recently, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had introduced the new property tax system in the state, following which many protests were witnessed. A MP from North [...] Continue Reading »
