Civic Issues
Coimbatore- This year Coimbatore Corporation will exceed the budget estimates which will increase its profits. This surplus is on account of better inflow of revenue under the ‘non-tax’ category. The revenue earned by the government is majorly categorized in two parts.- Tax revenue and non-tax revenue. The tax revenue includes revenue generated from property tax, water charges, etc and is utilized [...] Continue Reading »
Coimbatore- The solid waste generated by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) can now be utilized for generating 40MV of power. The amount of municipal waste generated by GHMC is 3100 metric tonnes. Municipal corporation’s Public, Private Partner (PPP) Ramky Enviro Engineers will set the power generation plant at Jawaharnagar dump yard in Kapra which is expected to [...] Continue Reading »
With the help of H(west) Federation the unauthorised mushrooming of 300 shanties in Bandra Reclamation within a fortnight has been reached to to CM. This new slum is located behind Nargis Dutt Nagar slum and the flyover that connects the Sea Link to the Western Express Highway. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- According to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) officials, the work of Metro rial on the Chaderghat-Malakpet stretch will hopefully start soon. The Chaderghat-Malakpet stretch falls on the LB Nagar-Miyapur corridor (Corridor Number 1). On December 20, the corporation started removing properties in Hyderabad which mainly comprised of commercial property. For this purpose, corporation already marked the area to be demolished [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) will soon launch a new project in the western part of Chennai. This effort by JNNURM is taken to alleviate flood in areas located downstream of Korattur lake. The residents of Chennai are surprised and happy too because the streets here get flooded every monsoon. Due to undefined [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- The Chennai Municipal Corporation (CMC) has decided not to implement its plan of acquiring stretch of private land such as Dr. Ambedkar Salai, for the development of world-class roads. This decision was announced by Mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy on December 18 at the public consultation meeting held in Kodambakkam for the project. Initially the civic body planned to extend some [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh State Minorities Finance Corporation Ltd (APSMFC) will ask the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for the list of properties that were purchased by the accused in the scholarship scam case. Corporation arrived to a conclusion from the board meeting that the properties in Hyderabad bought by the scamsters should be averted from selling and transferring as [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was planning to use hi tech tree census, but it has been delayed as there was no response from any of the service providers. None of the companies came to do the tree census job after tenders were floated in November. The civic body has e-floated the tenders which has [...] Continue Reading »
NGO Yuva conducted a study titled ‘Ground Truthing’ in the P North ward Malad for the urban poor in order to make them understand about the land use implementation and reservation in the city. The ward consists of 9.58 lakh people. 60 percent of the population in the city lives in slum and around 10 [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- Chennai Corporation can now construct a multi-level parking lot on Bashyam Road at T.Nagar as Madras High Court denied to intervene in this affair. However, the court said that any part of Panagal Park (by the side of road) would not be encroached to construct parking facility in T. Nagar. The public interest litigation petition seeking the authorities [...] Continue Reading »
