Civic Issues
Owners of multi-storeyed buildings will be fined if they are caught throwing waste on the street. The KMC Act stated that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation can set a fine as high as Rs 5,000 for littering streets, but however, the amount can differ from person to person. Debabrata Majumder, MMiC, solid waste department, said that [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- With a positive response towards the auctioned plots, the Andhra Pradesh Housing Board (APHB) has generated about Rs. 12 crore. This auction by the APHB was held after a gap of four years and got Rs 51,333 per square yard against the upset price of Rs 40,000 for a 252-sq yard plot at Phase-9 of Kukatpally Housing [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has initiated the technical and financial bid regarding the initiation of the Krishna Phase-III project. They also shortlisted firms who were present with the lowest bid amounts. The proposed drinking water supply project under 10 packages had floated tenders by the Water Board. There were two firms who filed tenders concerning the [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- Traffic police of Chennai have suggested the Chennai Corporation to spot out parking places in important areas of the city to facilitate in putting an end to illegal parking. Around 360 parking lots in 11 different zones have been chosen for the purpose. According to sources, the corporation has planned to carry out a [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon- In a recent announcement concerning the new tax policy, it was insisted by the zonal taxation officials that residents ready to pay their arrears for the financial years 2008-09 and 2009-10 should follow the old tax policy. However, the residents are not quite happy with that as the tax amount is much lesser when calculated as [...] Continue Reading »
Pune- The civic body gave conditional agree towards state government’s proposal to bring 28 merged small towns under the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limitations. The new go ahead can boost the geographical area to more than 450 sq km from the present 243. 84 sq km. The administration commanded 19 TMC drinking water quota along [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- The high court will hear petitions filed by garbage contractors objecting the modern tenders and also the public interest litigation (PIL) producing problem about the city’s ruin wreck. The State Government and the BBMP are confused as they do not know what to do regarding garbage issue. The civic bodies are at the focal [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon- In an attempt to get all the authorized buildings under Gurgaon’s jurisdiction, the Municipal Corporation enforcement wing aimed at innumerable structures which were under various stages of construction. These structures fell under the localities within 900 metres of the IAF ammunition depot. An order by Supreme Court addressed that no construction should be taken place in this zone. However, the demolishing was [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The technical snags which resulted in constant thermal power plant breakdown are eventually affecting the power supply in the state. About 1100 MW of thermal power generation was affected due to the technical issues of the five thermal plants. The key reason for the recurrent occurrence of snags was due to lack of the annual shutdown and capital maintenance. [...] Continue Reading »
Above 90 apartment complexes in the town have tied up with the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) to set up bio-bins in their compound to help deal with the particular rubbish managing problems. They have installed four bio-bins to process the garbage collected from 86 apartment units in the complex. They [...] Continue Reading »
