Civic Issues
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to categorise all potholes that have been reported as severe, medium and low priority. The prioritisation will depend upon the traffic density of the road on which the pothole is located. BMC officials state that it has decided to do so to ensure potholes on busy roads are filled at [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to revoke the 10 per cent water cut from September 15. It comes as a welcome gift to Mumbaikars just before the Ganesha festival. The BMC officials state that they have enough water stock required to supply water to the city residents till next year. With the Ganesha [...] Continue Reading »
A group of residents led by six ward councillors of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) held a protest at the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) office, demanding civic amenities in unauthorised colonies in the city. The councillors have demanded that MCG must provide basic amenities like water supply and sanitation in these colonies within [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation added more banks to its current list of six banks authorised to collect property tax. Currently the six banks receiving property tax are – Indian Overseas Bank, City Union Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Canara Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank. Now HDFC Bank and the IDBI Bank are added to the list. [...] Continue Reading »
In the ongoing tussle, the Bombay high court has settled a long-pending property tax row in favour of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The court ruled that the civic body can fix property tax on the building based on the actual rent charged. The verdict is the latest in the saga of tax tussle between [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to disallow fixed glass sheets on facades. The decision has come on the wake of last week’s blaze at a commercial building in the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), where the firemen found it difficult to access the affected portion from outside in case of buildings with fixed glass facades. [...] Continue Reading »
In an anti-encroachment drive, the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority flattened houses occupying nearly 40 acres of government land valued around Rs 2,000 crore. The Authority’s anti-encroachment cell, along with the Gautam Budh Nagar sub-divisional magistrate (Dadri) and district police, removed unauthorised occupations from a green belt running adjacent to Haibatpur. Around 3,000 illegal structures [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to verify the proposal for widening 216 roads in the city within a month. Roads in various ares like Goripalya, Padarayanapura, Gandhi Bazaar and Chamarajpet have been inspected by mayor D Venkatesh Murthy, following complaints from commuters. A committee has been formed to verify the proposals to widen [...] Continue Reading »
A team of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) civic engineers is to conduct an audit of the pothole-filling work being carried out on city roads. The decision has been taken after 1,738 potholes were reassigned or reopened for filling. The BMC claimed that the cold-mix technology used to fill potholes is effective enough. However, recent heavy [...] Continue Reading »
The traders of Connaught Place in New Delhi have stated that they are facing up to 70 per cent losses in business due to municipality work going on in the area. The traders have asked the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) to increase their property tax rebate by 30 per cent. Currently, the traders in [...] Continue Reading »
