Civic Issues
Basavanagar is one of the fast developing areas of Vignana Nagar ward in Bangalore. Basavanagar has become one of the wanted locality for people looking houses to rent. A number of builders have launched housing projects in the locality. The real estate in Basavanagar is increasing as it is close to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and other [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will now resolve all problems related to civic issues through a 24 hour call center. This announcement will also make concerned officials responsible to solve grievances. This call center handled by a private professional agency is functional from January 1, 2013 midnight. To get in touch with this call center, one has to dial 153304 from any mobile [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon- In an attempt to ease the local transport, the Haryana Roadways is all set to introduce more bus routes in every nook and corner of the city. As per the strategy, an additional number of 30 bus routes will be initiated from 12. With the extra 30 bus routes, there will be 150 buses [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- Chennai Corporation has proposed to construct solar bus shelters on main arterial roads to reduce the consumption of power. These solar bus shelters will also have mobile phone charging points. This concept is not so common in Tamil Nadu as in Delhi. According to a senior official, bus shelters having at least 20 tube lights consume lot of [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has marked 600 acres of land near Togarighatta village in Koratagere taluk of Tumkur district in order to dump garbage. A private developer has proposed to build a garbage processing unit in Togarighatta for which both the State Pollution Control Board and BBMP have given the green signal. The [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- On December 31 2012, Chennai Corporation has declared the facility of online tax payment. Now the residents of Sholinganallur, Perungudi , Valasaravakkam , Alandur and other 15 newly extended zones can pay their taxes online. The database of Chennai corporation has also been updated. Now many residents living in other parts of the country and NRIs who [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) budget proposal for 2013-14 financial year is stuck up for approval. This is because Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are not assembling for the council meeting. The mayor of MIM is reluctant to gather for this meeting. On December 13, the proposed budget (Rs 3,800 crore) of Greater Hyderabad [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP has finally decided to withdraw the three percent garbage cess on the property tax collected from bulk generators in the Palike council meeting. The cess had become a argument between the bulk generators and the civic agency. The high court questioned Palike about the logic behind imposing garbage cess when the bulk generators [...] Continue Reading »
The BMTC has decided to have two remote CCTV cameras in all the buses for the security of women and to assure them a safe travel. This will also help to keep an eye on troublemakers. First 1,000 Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses will be installed with the cameras and the rest 5,500 buses will [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi/NCR: The complaints of the residents over travelling a long distance to pay tax has paved way as the tax payment has been made easier by the MCG. The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has come up with a decision to revamp the complete house tax payment system. The MCG has merged with various private [...] Continue Reading »
