Civic Issues
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked its maintenance officials to inspect the entire wirings at BMC Head Quarters after two short circuit incidents happened in the last week and also asked to provide a report within a week. According to officials from the maintenance department, two small fire incidents were reported in the mid of November. [...] Continue Reading »
Coimbatore- In a written response to a resident’s petition which was sent nearly a month ago, the Coimbatore Corporation’s North Zone stated that it has repaired the streetlights in graveyard road and they are glowing well. But in fact, the lights were not glowing for over a year, and many of them had no bulbs [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- For the first time, the state discoms have spent Rs 3,992 crore in order to purchase additional power for the seven months causing an additional responsibility on the part of the discoms creating a fluctuation in their finances. Last year, Rs 3,498 crore were spent by the distribution companies to get power from other [...] Continue Reading »
According to information from BMC’s hydraulic department there has not been a single FIR against illegal water connections in 2012. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation‘s (BMC) plan to lodge complaints against people taking illegal water connections does not seem to be working. In 2011, 56 police complaints were filed and in March 2011 the highest number [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- The website of Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) was hacked by a group from Bangladeshis but luckily the site was put back in place. The employees came to know about the hacking when they started working on the site. The message displayed was ” Death Note” with the sentence ‘INDIAN WEBSHIT PWNED LAME SECURITY BREACHED‘ [...] Continue Reading »
Vadodra- The latest drive of recovering taxes and sealing properties by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has been continuing with about 45 properties being sealed on Saturday. This step was taken by the municipality as there was an increased number of tax payment deadlines and the drive was started on Friday. Properties like the Rosary School’s principal office [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body in association with NGO’s is planning to involve rag-pickers in waste management and cleanliness drive. Around 6000 ragpickers have been identified by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). They believe that the project would take care of garbage dumps on the city roads as well as the increasing number of rag-pickers. AMC commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra said [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmubmai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to rennovate the SMS complaint system as some loopholes have been highlighted about the SMS complaint service. The BMC launched the service on June 18 so that the residents can lodge their complaints by sending an SMS to 9833331916. The service received a good response about different civic issues [...] Continue Reading »
Noida- A protest has been held by the residents in Greater Noida in opposition to the discom Noida Power Company Limited (NCPL), as they had imposed increased amount of surcharge by about 8 percent on the electricity bills. The Sector Gamma-I residents stated that due to the inadequate supply and maintenance services by the discom, the [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon- Gurgaon is on the verge to complete its latest innovation known as the land records digitization project. Gurgaon currently has about 100 villages with their property records being computerized, which will further link the data with the online records information system provided by the State Government. The district administration in a recently held meeting asked the project [...] Continue Reading »
