Civic Issues
The Delhi Government is thinking seriously over the proposal to assess extra tax on the properties available for sale along the metro rail and bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors. This is to reduce the process of renewal and rebuilding of houses and stores of middle-class individuals and families. This proposal will help the general public [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- Over 40 employees of Deloitte gathered on the banks of Ulsoor and Uttarahalli lakes in order to clean them up. Joining hands with the United Way Bengaluru’s ‘Wake the Lake’ campaign, the employees stepped forward to clean up the natural water bodies. The day was observed as the corporates’ annual Impact Day which is [...] Continue Reading »
After a fire broke out on the fifth floor of a tower in Ahimsa Khand-II of Indirapuram, the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) members lodged a complaint against the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) and the developer of the project for not putting proper safety measures in the society. However, the fire broke out due to short [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC said that due to lack of technical issues many civic projects are lying incomplete, so they decided to form a technical advisory committees (TAC) for most of its departments. Sitaram Kunte, Bhrihanmumbai Minicipal Corporation chief had decided to form such committees for education, water, sewage and solid waste management departments. These types of [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- Juhu residents allege that the airport authorities are cutting lot of trees without taking approval from the respected authorities. However the authorities denied the allegations saying that they have cut only the unwanted bushes and shrubs. According to them, they have cleaned the bushes so that the slum dwellers do not indulge themselves in [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body is considering to give the rebate in property tax to the industries in Satpur and Ambad industrial areas of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). Haribhau Phadol, NMC’s deputy municipal commissioner (Octroi), said that they have already given five percent discount to the industries in property tax for using solar energy but now [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has directed all its 550 health inspectors and environment engineers to take pictures of uncleared garbage and upload them in the designated folder of BBMP website. For this purpose they have been provided with Android phones too. Only after the high court’s interference with BBMP regarding its inefficient management [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is to construct a new public parking lot in Lower Parel in coming January as residents in Mumbai are facing difficulty to park their vehicle. The developers have to handover the parking lot constructed under the parking floor space index (FSI) policy revised by the state government in 2011. The parking [...] Continue Reading »
As the Monegar Choultry Road subway nears completion, the North Chennai residents are happy as from three-four years they were facing problems commuting in one ways. The subway work started in March 2008 was stopped and resumed many times. The subway would have completed faster if it was in South Chennai, said the residents and [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- The city will now see different lanes for about 160 roads as the ‘ Disaster Management Lanes‘ by the end of this year. A person driving on these lanes at the time of disaster will be punished. The lanes will be designed with 3.5-meters and will be painted blue in colour on the [...] Continue Reading »
