Civic Issues
According to officials, the state government has spent more that Rs 380 crore on the sundry water supply project under the Indira Gandhi Drinking Water Scheme. This scheme was launched in November 2006 with an aim of getting the pipe water supply to the unprivileged sections of the society. Around 96 percent of target has [...] Continue Reading »
Ropar- Ropar Municipal Council has given its approval for the imposition of property tax in the town against opposition by some of its councillors. The Punjab government had proposed imposition of property tax and few of the councillors opposed it saying that paying property tax would be a burden to the residents in the town. [...] Continue Reading »
Ahmedabad- The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has proposed a 100 percent hike in tax for residential properties and 45 percent for non-residential properties. The annual property tax for residential buildings is likely to be raised from Rs 10 to Rs 20 per square metre. And for non-residential properties, the tax will be raised from Rs [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has been asked by the state government to speed up the metro project work. Earlier, Union government had asked the civic body to expedite the work. The civic body has been asked by the state govt to register the special purpose vehicle (SPV) with immediate effect and submit the proposal of [...] Continue Reading »
Ahmedabad- Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner has made installation of water meters mandatory for all kinds of properties in Ahmedabad. The new rule will come to effect from April 1 and Rs 4425-crore municipal budget has been sanctioned in this regard. As per the new rule, any property in the city, whether residential or non-residential, has to [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently passed a new garbage collection scheme to keep the city’s slum clean. This new scheme has been introduced to keep a check and break the monopoly of present contractors who are appointed under the old scheme and to ensure better garbage collection services in slums. The new scheme called [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad – The city will suffer water crisis this summer and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has still not prepared any plans to overcome it. Himayatsagar and Osmansagar are about to hit dead storage levels. The concerned authorities are very much aware of the forthcoming water crisis after the shortage of [...] Continue Reading »
New-Delhi- For a plotted development project in Faridabad, Haryana has been funded by India Infoline group’s PE arm known as IIFL Domestic Series 1. A whopping sum of about Rs. 75 Cr (approximately $13.9 mn) has been invested. The project has been developed by Assotech Ltd. with developers constructing the basic infrastructure on these type of [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon- Earlier the imposition of the house tax by the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) was opposed by the property owners in private localities and townships but now the residents of plotted houses in HUDA sectors are following the same. Residents from HUDA sectors have trained their people on the MCG for dispatching the house tax notices [...] Continue Reading »
To find out the actual waste generated in the city, the Karnataka High Court ordered the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to make an arrangement to measure all garbage collected from the city. The weighing of garbage should be conducted from 1st of February for 30 days and the weighing mechanism will be placed at [...] Continue Reading »
