Civic Issues
Chandigarh residents are facing acute water supply crunch. As against a demand of 116 Million Gallons Daily (MGD), the city is presently receiving 90 MGD, which includes 80 MGD from Kajauli water works and another 10 MGD from tube wells. The local Municipal Corporation would supply additional 3 MGD to Military Engineers Services (MES) in [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai’s current water stock is at its highest in four years. However, the civic body will still not be able to supply the extra water needed to reduce the city’s water deficit from the Middle Vaitarna project this year. Two components of the project – a tunnel and a water treatment plant, which are being [...] Continue Reading »
The newly constructed buildings in Mumbai lack rainwater harvesting system. The fact has been brought into notice by social activists. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) made it mandatory for the new buildings to have rain water harvesting system in 2007. The civil administration has allocated about Rs1 crore to the rain water harvesting cell under the [...] Continue Reading »
The Pune Municipal Corporation(PMC) has prepared a list of nearly 10,000 property tax defaulters. The defaulters have more than Rs 1 lakh property tax dues per head. The PMC has revealed that it has to recover around Rs 100 crore from these defaulters. The civic administration issued notices to these people and has demanded that [...] Continue Reading »
The Nashik Municipal Corporation(NMC) administration has tied up with some select nationalized and scheduled banks for collection of property taxes. The property tax can be deposited at around 80 branches of some nationalized and scheduled banks within the NMC limits. Collection of the property taxes at the select bank branches is expected to commence within [...] Continue Reading »
The commuters of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) in Hyderabad will have to pay toll charges based on the distance travelled on the eight-lane stretch. Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has decided to start collecting toll on the southern arc of the ORR from Pedda Amberpet to Patancheru. As per the National Highway Authority of [...] Continue Reading »
As Namma Metro begins to improve connectivity in Bangalore, property prices have gone up in many places. Localities like Baiyappanahalli have witnessed a massive surge in property rates as metro line connects it to the central business district around MG Road. Purchase rates of built up properties and vacant plots have gone up alongside. Property [...] Continue Reading »
The marriage palace owners in Patiala have been imposed tax, because of dumping garbage on municipal sites/land. Punjab Pollution Control Board has directed all marriage palace owners to procure no objection certificates (NOC) from Patiala municipal corporation about proper garbage disposal. It has also fixed Rs 7,000 per month charges for marriage palaces in the [...] Continue Reading »
The Income Tax department has raided 45 premises of Indore’s 10 real estate firms. As per reports, 300 officials conducted the operations and recovered Rs 2 crore in cash and sealed 15 lockers of nine realtors. Officials of I-T department said that a host of irregularities have come to the fore during the raids which [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) has challenged a Bombay High Court (HC) verdict asking it to pay an amount of Rs 50 crore as collective bonus to 40,000 employees. The BMC has been arguing that it has no responsibility to pay bonus as employees had struck work last year. The BMC employees had gone to strike last [...] Continue Reading »
