Civic Issues
To fulfill the most cherished dream of having roads to connect the remote areas of Manipur, Assam and Nagaland, about 100 Northeast villagers are working hard towards collecting funds to complete the road construction. The deadline will be until Christmas. An example, wherein a resident from Manipur’s remote Phoklong village has contributed Rs 1,000 from his old-age pension for the [...] Continue Reading »
A recent change has been made by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in the draft Land Acquisition Bill, making the level of consent of landowners for acquiring land for private purpose even more tougher. The land owners percentage, whose consent is mandatory or acquiring the land for private purposes has been increased from 67% to 80%. With the [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the rain in Bangalore, garbage has become much bigger mess to tackle. Garbage has been piled up as a result of pourakarmikas not turning up for work due to the non stop rain in the city. The chairperson of Karnataka Land Army Corporation stated that garbage was not cleared in Rajajinagar and Basaveshwaranagar [...] Continue Reading »
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided at a meeting of the BMC corporators to build three footbridges in Bhbaneswar. The bridges would be constructed at Jayadev Vihar, Master Canteen and Rupali Square and each footbridge would reportedly be developed at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore. As per the agreement, the contractor would make profit [...] Continue Reading »
Three trees were felled without the permission from the concerned officials in a residential area in Singanallur city, despite the promises made to protect the green cover. It is said that in order to widen the roads, the trees were felled. The contractor was planning to cut more trees, but due to strong resistance from residents [...] Continue Reading »
As the city of Bangalore grapples with loads of garbage being dumped on streets and BBMP failing to find a place to dump them, finally a solution seems to be on the horizon. The BBMP council approved a proposal for purchasing 400 acres of land at Bagepalli in Chikkaballapur district for waste disposal. The civic [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is planning to develop the city but before that it has to tackle the debt due to government departments defaulting on property tax. Around 30 government wings owe property tax of Rs 4.18 crore to the civic body, with the APTransco leading the defaulters list owing Rs 80.03 lakh [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has handed out contracts to new contractors. As Bangalore is reeling under uncleared garbage dumps, contracts go to new hands to clean up the city. The BBMP council has accorded approval to the new garbage tenders. As a result, the corporation got rid of the old garbage mafia and [...] Continue Reading »
South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has attached rent of 50 properties in Omaxe Square – an office centre in South Delhi. The 50 properties of different owners on second floor of Omaxe Square have been rented out to Wipro. The officials said 50 property owners collectively owe Rs 19,14,616 to the corporation. The property tax [...] Continue Reading »
With the extension of the deadline to pay the Value Added Tax (VAT) dues by the Supreme Court, now the buyers and the developers are quite relieved. The deadline has been extended October 31 for the VAT on flats purchased in Maharashtra between 2006-2010. Also the SP has directed the Sales Tax Department to waive [...] Continue Reading »
