Civic Issues
The revised development plan which was suggested for old city by the elected members of Pune Municipal Corporation have to wait another month to see the light of the day. The civic body has claimed that it will take at least a month to publish and display the plan. Earlier, PMC had approved the development [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently carried out a demolition drive of illegal constructions in the city. The illegal constructions were standing tall in KarveNagar, Warje, Wanowrie and Kondhwa in Pune. These buildings were spread across 40,000 square feet. The KarvenagarWarje ward office and the deputy commissioner office of Wanowrie and Kondhwa initiated the demolition [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP is going to undertake a special drive for reviewing the details submitted by the property owners who have misused the Self-Assessment Scheme (SAS) system, particularly in relation to properties above 3,000 sq ft. BBMP commissioner ordered the spacial team to complete the review process by end of March. The Palike has formed 25 special [...] Continue Reading »
Coimbatore- The corporation has started assessing the city’s property tax when a set of questions were put forth. Questions like is the Corporation right in taking into account the plinth area or carpet area while assessing property tax were presented. This question has been posed under the Right to Information Act to the Corporation. The corporation [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- With rising number of oppositions to the new property tax system introduced by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Maharashtra chief minister has been requested to issue stay on the regime. One of the member of parliament has asked CM Prithviraj Chavan to order a stay against the new system because under the new [...] Continue Reading »
Kozhikode- Residents from the West Hill Industrial Estate have opposed the city corporation against the commissioning of the newly launched plastic recycling unit at the estate. They insist that the unit will not function until the piled up waste from the compound is cleared. Apart from just opposing, the residents have planned to hold protests [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP has started with the drive to recover the pending tax amount from the tax defaulters. The civic body has decided to flash the name and photographs of the tax defaulters on hoarding at major traffic intersections. In addition to this, Palike is planning to embarrass defaulters by beating drums in front of the defaulters’ [...] Continue Reading »
A real estate builder of a luxurious apartment complex near Marathahalli said that most of the apartment complexes are cutting down on their security, trimming manpower to the extent, to save on maintenance cost. However, the builder told that it is smaller apartments that are trimming on security guards and his apartments complex does not [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government is planning to give up the process of verification of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards for allotment of plots and houses under the EWS quota. The government had a practise of verification of genuineness of the BPL cards while allotting plots/flats reserved for the people belonging to the Economically Weaker [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seemed to have juggled up the guidelines to calculate the new property tax system. The property tax under the capital value-based system has missed out on some key factors to compute the same. The civic body has not taken into account several factors like leased and freehold land as well [...] Continue Reading »
