Civic Issues
As a the ongoing scuffle between the BBMP and the BMTF (Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force) goes on, in the recent development the Palike Engineering department has decided to issue notices to property owners for building plan violations. Complaints filed with the BMTF by citizens contained allegations of complicity between engineers and property owners. This has [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP has decided to discuss ECC Road widening issue with the residents of Sunflower Villas, Whitefield. When nearby villagers pulled down compound walls of two villas and also dug up pits in front of them, the police had to intervene. According to sources, the major works department at the BBMP head office is widening [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to set up a biogas plant in Bangalore. The civic body has roped in Pune-based Mailhem Engineers to build a biogas plant. The plant designs to convert tonnes of waste generated at Krishna Rajendra Market to power. Mailhem Engineers, which generates biogas using high-rate biomethanation technique, will convert [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to go ahead with the seeding of clouds in the catchment areas of Bhatsa and Vaitarna lakes in September. It also extended the 10 per cent water cut further till September 15. The officials stated that seeding will be carried for 12-15 days in September, on the basis [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) website has been upgraded to display the names of all city buildings that have an occupational certificate (OC). Recently more than one lakh flat owners of 6,000 buildings in the city of Mumbai have had to bear the brunt of the absence of an OC by paying double water charges. [...] Continue Reading »
Over four lakh flat owners in Maharashtra, who had bought properties between June 20, 2006 and March 31, 2010, may have to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) to the state government. As the state government plans to recover VAT, a trade circular is issued by the Maharashtra sales tax commissioner on August 6. The tax [...] Continue Reading »
A decision has been taken that a team of councillors of the Municipal Corporations along with officials is all set to visit different cities in order to find the most suitable technology for setting up a sewerage treatment plant in the cities. The team will be visiting Mumbai and Delhi to observe the functioning of [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) faced criticism from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recently for their failure for not upgrading sewerage network in the Greater Hyderabad limits. Not even five percent of the new sewage pipelines were laid in the last ten years. Due to lack of sewerage network, nearly 75 percent [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Balaji Avenue, off the Thiruvanaikovil Trunk Road in Srirangam, are facing problems regarding drinking water. The drinking water overhead tank (OHT) complex at the south-west corner of the locality has been exposed to pollution over the past few months, owing to the outflow of sewage from a faulty underground sewer line. The [...] Continue Reading »
Altogether 192 beneficiaries were allotted newly-built houses at Isopur on the outskirts of Patna under the scheme for urban poor. These houses were being constructed for the BPL families in urban areas. The CM announced that over 50,000 houses will be built in 28 cities of the state and those would not be a part [...] Continue Reading »
