Civic Issues
Recently, the decision that had been taken to hike Pune property tax by 8 percent has been postponed by the standing committee of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Baburao Chandere, chairman of the standing committee of PMC has stated that still more discussions and a special meeting are needed to come up with a plan. The [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- On one side the villagers of Tumkur Zilla have decided to protest the decision of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to dump garbage there while on other side, residents of Madhur have set up their campaign to get BBMP stick to their promise of not dumping any garbage from February 2013. Mandhur residents had several meetings with the concerned authorities [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- With the clearance of the budget proposal by the civic body, parking rates for areas which fall under the South Delhi Municipal Corporation were doubled. This measure by the civic body was taken in as it had been suggested by the SDMC Commissioner Manish Gupta followed by few modifications. As per Gupta’s decision, [...] Continue Reading »
Panchkula- In a recent technological innovation, the Haryana state pollution control board (HPSCB) is all set to launch the light emitting electronic display (LED) system in Panchkula’s Sector 6. This technology will help in maintaining the pollution records of the city. This step was taken due to launch of four continuous ambivalent air quality monitoring stations in the [...] Continue Reading »
Bombay High Court has recently directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to raze the illegal structures which have been rebuilt again. This came into light after a housing society in Santa Cruz filed a petition against an unauthorized construction in front of a division bench. Hearing the case, the two Judges involved reminded the civic [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Hyderabad Metro rail is finally sticking to age-old overhead power line system called AC Traction because they don’t have skilled engineers to adopt modern Third Rail technology of power supply for the train. This modern technology is very prevalent in Europe where power supply line is positioned in between the tracks and supplies 750 volt DC voltage. While in traditional line system [...] Continue Reading »
Noida- In a latest innovation, the regional office of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) launched two new portable air pollution monitoring systems to keep a check on the air pollution levels by appropriate monitoring and analysing the samples from different locations of the city. In a sample test by the machines, the air quality in [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) is hoping to reap benefits from the proposed concept of “land pooling”. This concept is also followed in some other states like Gujarat. To promote this concept, HMDA is planning to arrange a meeting with real estate developers in the twin cities. They believe that this concept of land pooling [...] Continue Reading »
Noida- In a recent incident, the BSP regime has unearthed another land scam worth Rs. 3800 crore as the former government had leased out about three lakh 81 thousand sq meter land illegally to various private companies and their favorite buyers. The scam came into notice and an inquiry was started in June with the new regime [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP, BDA, BESCOM, BMTC and BMRCL are planning to make Bangalore city a better place to live in. Anjum Parwez, managing director (BMTC), says that they are planning to chuck out around 755 old buses and replace them with BS-IV norm buses. They will also add more 500 BS-IV buses for new routes so that [...] Continue Reading »
