Civic Issues
Its been two months since the Delhi Government has made an announcement concerning the permission to allow the sale and purchase of properties in 300 unauthorised colonies which were regularised along with other 538 settlements. On September 6, the Delhi Government had set a deadline of about one month in order to allow the purchase [...] Continue Reading »
Compared to the last year’s Diwali celebrations in Delhi, this year’s Diwali has increased the waste by about 1,200 tonnes with heaps of crackers, wrappers and sweet boxes. About 1,000-1,200 metric tonnes of Diwali waste was generated this year according to municipal corporations. Last year’s Diwali eve had generated about 5,785 tonnes of waste and on [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent announcement made by District Collector S A M Rizwi,Hyderabad, stated that there was no point in making rounds to the Collector’s office as the allocation of houses will be done on seniority basis. Earlier this week, the program ‘Mee Kosam’ resulted in people sending various applications to the collector. The applications sent by [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to prepare a demand management policy following the complaints of inadequate water supply in large parts of the city. BMC is planning to approach Madhav Chitale, hydraulic expert for advice and a blueprint. The blueprint will have alterations that need to be made in the system so that [...] Continue Reading »
The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) has registered a case against the real estate company DLF, a former administrator of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), and a former Commissioner of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). The First Information Report (FIR) registered states that a former commissioner of the BDA, the then administrator of the [...] Continue Reading »
The civic corporation has identified 3,600 mobile towers among which 1,800 are illegal towers in the metropolis and now Sitaram Kunte, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner is thinking to take action against their operators. The councilors in the BMC advised to take stringent action against the illegal mobile tower operators. The health risks like [...] Continue Reading »
As per the Master Plan Delhi 2021 guidelines, the North Municipal Corporation is all set to impose a note on regularising unauthorised commercial property constructions. This move by the corporation will be aligned with the decision to implement the conversion process of the commercial properties in markets. However the note by the officials also stated that they will not consider [...] Continue Reading »
The property tax assessment will be shortly presented to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and a meeting will be held after a heated discussion between the corporators from the Shiv Sena and NCP. The members of two parties had almost verbal confrontation after the municipal commissioner RA Rajeev spoke and sought the state government intervention to [...] Continue Reading »
Finally over 2,000 flat allottees of the Delhi Development Authority’s (DDA) 2010 housing scheme are about to get relief from their problems. Though most of the total 16,000 allottees of the housing scheme have been given possession of their flats, a large number of them are yet to receive power or water connections in their [...] Continue Reading »
Dengue continues to take its toll on Delhi as thirty-eight more people have tested positive for dengue in the capital. With the fresh cases, the total number of people detected with the mosquito-borne disease this season reaches 1,326. All the 38 cases were reported from three municipal corporations. Five children were among those who have [...] Continue Reading »
