Civic Issues
Can the civic body make a new development plan without asking the slum dwellers? Though Mumbai city comprises of 70 percent slum dwellers, the civic body has established its new plan without consulting them. Till now the development plan has not done anything for the urban poor. The development plan has not made any housing [...] Continue Reading »
Thiruvananthapuram- On 12th December, comptroller and auditor general of India submitted a report in the state assembly which says that Kochi Corporation does not adopt transparency methods while assessing property tax in city. The report also stated variations in calculating property tax for similar properties in the same area. Other faults found includes lack of co-ordination between town and revenue [...] Continue Reading »
Belgaum- The government of Karnataka has been strictly accused by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) for illegally denotifying land which was acquired by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). The report, Denotification of Land by Government and Allotment of Sites by BDA, containing all details regarding how the rules and court orders were jeered [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has directed the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) to allot sites to applicants only if infrastructure facilities have been created in the layouts. Half of the work on providing basic facilities has been done in the BDA’s newly formed layouts. The remaining work has been planned to be completed by [...] Continue Reading »
Allahabad- Due to the delay in allotment of land sanctioned to Akharas, members of Akhara Parishad and saints of Juna Akhara lodged a protest to Mela officer on 11th December 2012. This allotted land was sanctioned to Mahamandaleshwar. With just one month left to Kumbh Mela, many such complains were also registered by members of Vaishnava saints too. [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi NCR : The land transfer policy of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) has been changed. Now the allottees are required to enter to “ agreement to lease” with the authority in order to transfer their allotments. The new policy totally have replaced the old policy which stated , allotments could be transferred without [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi- The government has strictly warned all taxpayers to disclose their true income and those who fails would be receiving notices from the Income Tax Department. Since the tax collected was very less in April-November, it asked taxpayers to file correct returns by December 15, when the third instalment of advance tax is due. The [...] Continue Reading »
Coimbatore- The residents of Thudiyalur Cheran Nagar and other localities under Ward 1 are facing many water storage problems. There are only few pots and barrels which are filled by piloor water once in 15 to 20 days in these areas by Coimbatore Corporation. A local resident explained the difficulties they face on the fourth day [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon: Within the next one and half months, Municipal Corporation Gurgaon (MCG) is all set to collect the property tax from the residents of New Gurgaon areas. As the collection of tax was pending since 2008, the civic body is aggressive enough to collect the house tax. From now onwards, the civic body has decided to [...] Continue Reading »
Several citizens have complained about the illegal hoardings which was put up by various political parties in Mumbai. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started to take actions against the hoardings after they received complaints from the citizens. BMC chief, Sitaram Kunte ordered employees to crack down the illegal hoardings. The hoardings, whoch include the death anniversary of [...] Continue Reading »
