Civic Issues
Bidhannagar Municipality is all set to restart the process of collecting property tax in Kolkata. The civic body had started collecting taxes in March, but the tax collection process had to be stalled a couple of weeks later after some confusion over tax calculation came out. Now the officials have declared that they are to [...] Continue Reading »
Serious flouting of responsibilities of public officials came out in the open in inquiries carried out by Corporation of Chennai. Inquiries have shown that in several cases, assistant revenue officers in the zonal levels do not deposit property tax cheques on time. As a result, residents are fined for late payment. Top Corporation officials suspect [...] Continue Reading »
Civic authorities in Delhi have taken a strong stand against property tax defaulters. The South corporation has attached the bank accounts of 114 properties, which have been defaulters. People and organisations with the highest amount of pending payments have been targeted by the authorities. Most of them had not paid taxes for years despite repeated [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has asked property owners who do not have water connections to pay extra property tax to make up for the delay in hiking general water tax. Owners in some localities do not have the water connection. As NMC has started to distribute property tax bills for this fiscal, property tax [...] Continue Reading »
Developers in Punjab has opposed the state government’s move to levy social infrastructure cess on property transactions. Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI), Chairman, Anil Chopra stated that it would hit demand in the real estate sector which is already undergoing slowdown. Poor demand in real estate sector can be gauged from [...] Continue Reading »
The Noida Authority has decided to speed up work on the Faridabad-Noida-Ghaziabad (FNG) corridor project. The chief engineer has been instructed to visit the project site and take stock of all obstacles in way of the project. The corridor is a part of its Master Plan 2021. 16km stretch of the proposed 56km corridor falls [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) standing committee has approved to take up a feasibility study for a sky-walk between Rathifile bus terminus and Secunderabad bus station. The standing committee gave its approval to the skywalk proposal, whose cost has been estimated at Rs 7.20 crore. The committee also gave the green signal to take [...] Continue Reading »
As Hyderabad reels under severe power crisis, the city civic bodies have decided to adopt power-saving measures. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to reduce the illumination of advertising hoardings and streetlights. With these cutbacks, the civic body is hoping to save 5 million units per month. Of the total 3,300 advertising hoardings [...] Continue Reading »
Over 2,000 residents of JP Nagar I Phase were given training on waste disposal by Indian People’s Council. 50 volunteers of the citizen action group enlightened them of the importance of reducing and segregating waste at source. The group sources state that 70 per cent of residents welcomed the idea of segregating waste at households [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is blamed for the potholes in many arterial roads in the city, which is in turn has aggravated the traffic problem in the city. The pothole-ridden arterial roads across the city, particularly in the central business district, particularly in Majestic area, are being identified as the main culprit of the [...] Continue Reading »
