Civic Issues
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) seems not to get any respite from garbage issues. In a petition, the new approved garbage tender proposals floated by BBMP have been challenged by old contractors. The counselor for the petition says that the new proposals have many discrepancies. The new proposals require a pourakarmika to sweep at least [...] Continue Reading »
Assocham, the industry body proposed a change in the land acquisition bill by stating that the law should have a provision of government assistance for acquiring 100% of land requirement by the private sector. However, a conversation between the chamber and the Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, the suggested provision should be allowed even to the projects which [...] Continue Reading »
The municipal commissioner RA Rajeev has sorted out the innervation of the state government to dismiss the resolution passed by the general body of Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) regarding the proposed capital value based on property tax. The assessment of the property tax is based on the rental value of the residential or commercial structure [...] Continue Reading »
According to South Delhi Municipal Corporation, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) owes Rs 746 crore in property tax with topping the list of property tax defaulters. Around 319 properties and 24 sports complexes in the city for which it is liable to pay property taxes. Housing societies such as HUDCO and CPWD are also found liable [...] Continue Reading »
The Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) municipality has collected Rs 80, 81,000 as property tax and started sending bills to all the residents. Around 1,696 owners have paid property tax accounted to Rs 80,81,000 till the last day of October. According to the municipality chairman Ashesh Mukherjee, the municipality is expecting to collect Rs 9 crore as [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent announcement made, the citizen services offered at the State Secretariat level will be brought under Sakala. All sakala services will be made online by March 31, 2013. This announcement was made by S. Suresh Kumar, Minister for BWSSB, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, after including 114 new services, including 12 offered by the Bangalore Development [...] Continue Reading »
With the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) decision to segregate the waste has only worsened matters and has increased the litter. As always, the street corners and the vacant sites have been the targets of litterbugs who are shying away to segregate the garbage instead opting for an easy way out. This eventually contradicts BBMP’s decision of increasing [...] Continue Reading »
With the garbage crisis all over the city, Rajneesh Goel, Commissioner of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has promised to create a different Bangalore to the Bench of the Lok Adalat in the coming months. Goel stated that they are working towards introducing a total garbage disposal mechanism different from all these years. He also [...] Continue Reading »
The civic authorities of Bangalore seem to have come up with a unique plan as a segregation plant, biogas converter and a gas-to-power plant will be set up in a vacant land near NMKRV College. The waste collected from eight wards in Padmanabhanagar Assembly constituency will be first segregated and converted to biogas. Then the [...] Continue Reading »
The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) has collected property tax of around Rs 45 crore – or, 58% – of the Rs 77.54-crore with five months left to the financial year. In a move to widen its tax collection, the MCC has targeted around 30,000 properties which were outside the purview all this while. This revenue [...] Continue Reading »
