Civic Issues
Following protest against new taxes-sewage benefit tax, water benefit tax and road tax, Nagpur Municipal Corporation halts proposal to introduce taxes. Nagpur City Congress Committee president Vikas Thakre and Congress corporators protest against the proposed taxes outside NMC’s town hall. NMC general body meeting was supposed to discuss the introduction of new taxes. But, mayor [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Thattanchavady resorted to a novel way of protesting to seek better and improved sanitation facilities! Thattanchavady is one of the thickly populated areas in Puducherry. This Wednesday, they observed World Sanitation Day in a completely new way. The residents along with the CPI protested in a new way by performing the last [...] Continue Reading »
In a verdict which upholds the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC)’s March 19 ruling, the Supreme Court has asked a Gurgaon-based realty developer – Ambience Pvt Ltd. – to refund Rs 33.38 crore maintenance fees charged from the residents of its project since 2002. The mentioned maintenance fees which Ambience has been asked to [...] Continue Reading »
Last Thursday the high court in Bombay was told that the municipal commissioner Sitaram Kunte have not been taking right decisions on the proposals for redevelopment of the cessed buildings whose proposed heights are more than 24 metres in the Dadar and Matunga region despite the court’s order. The law and enforcement department has been [...] Continue Reading »
In an evident attempt to solve the ‘unauthorized housing’ problem in Thane, a cluster development plan has been finalized by the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC). According to a proposal put forth by civic chief Aseem Gupta, the problem of illegal chawls and buildings in Thane can be effectively solved if the cluster approach is adopted [...] Continue Reading »
The Commerce Ministry has come to a conclusion that once the Narendra Modi and his government comes to power, there will be a new pitch for restoring the tax benefits for the SEZ (Special Economic Zones) Earlier the taxes of SEZ were free from any kind of obligation but since the yea 2011-12, this came [...] Continue Reading »
DLF now is in the waters of roughness, and the climes aren’t being favorable enough. The troubles are mammoth like, especially when owners of apartments in three of the projects owned by the company in Gurgaon have started raising voices, demanding compensations. Home owners are at the neck of the company since a long time, [...] Continue Reading »
Inkel Ltd made a strong bid in the hope of asking non-polluting businesses to set shop in Kerala, which was a hit with many eco-friendly ventures wanting to join the bandwagon on the Tower I facility located at Angamaly. This is a campus which would be for only non-polluting industries, for example; Logistics IT and [...] Continue Reading »
The government will consider if the toll rates will be reduced for only vehicles bearing Haryana registration numbers or the relief should be extended to all vehicles which pass through the toll plazas. The Haryana cabinet is likely to take a decision on reducing toll tax in the state. The government was planning to give [...] Continue Reading »
A bench of the Bombay high court, while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed four years ago by a group of residents from Hiranandani Estate, Thane, said If residents are complaining of illegal structures mushrooming across the city , The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) or the Thane collector cannot ‘throw its hands up’. To [...] Continue Reading »
