Civic Issues
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is seriously working on the sanitation issues in the city. They have wrote to the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) seeking permission to dump garbage from the city over 22 acres of land over to the civic body authority. Communities around Mandur are keeping a strict vigilance to [...] Continue Reading »
The capital city is witnessing garbage issue and Delhi’s municipal corporations appear to be in crisis over the sanitation factor in the city during the festival season. The city garbage has increased by 1,000 metric tonnes a day. Expect the waste-to-energy plant in Okhla, the city lacks any arrangement to the disposing of garbage. Currently [...] Continue Reading »
This festival season, the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) is concerned about the cleanliness of the city. They have strictly asked the pooja organisers to keep the city clean while building pandals and immersing idols. Pooja organisers have asked to keep at least four dustbins near pandals, so that the sanitation workers an ollect the garbage [...] Continue Reading »
In order to curb leakages and to reduce the strain on public finance, from July 2013, cash equivalent to your cooking gas will be subsidized in your bank account. This move is to make the “kind-to-cash” transition based on Aadhaar card numbers. The authorities have agreed to transfer cash from April 1, in 50 districts [...] Continue Reading »
In order to crackdown sloppy work, a policy has been issued by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) which states that maximum period of redevelopment of property should be four years and levying penalties on developers who cross deadlines. Already over Rs 90 penalties are issued on sub-engineers of road department for not filling up the pot [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) was hit out by Opposition leaders for allowing an NGO for implementing a Zero Garbage Project. To implement the Zero Garbage Project in 20 cities, the standing committee has approved the proposal to allot Rs 1.48 crore to NGO Janwani. BJP corporator, Shirnath Bhimale has opposed the decision by saying that [...] Continue Reading »
The long delayed controversial Land Acquisition Bill was cleared by the Group of Ministers (GoM) and will introduce in the Parliament. About two third of the land loser’s consent is being proposed in the final draft in order to purchase the land for public-private-partnership and private projects. The bill will be introduced in Parliament, possibly in [...] Continue Reading »
As Coimbatore is faced with rising dengue fever cases, mosquito control measures are being carried out in the city. The ongoing control procedure will now focus on construction work sites and other areas including the premises of vacant locked houses, government offices and public areas like cinema halls to ensure vector control. The probability of [...] Continue Reading »
Realty sales is to begin soon in newly regularised colonies of Delhi. The Delhi government has announced that it will start registering properties in the recently regularized colonies. However,only those properties that have attained general power of attorney (GPA) registered before October 2011 will be eligible for registration. Through this, the Delhi government has started [...] Continue Reading »
Flat owners of cooperative housing societies in Noida are finding it difficult to meet the deadline set by Noida Authority. In September, Noida Authority had set a deadline of three months for owners of flats in these societies to get their properties registered with the Uttar Pradesh Stamps and Registration department. However, the residents have [...] Continue Reading »
