Civic Issues
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been able to reclaim the Lagoon Road after 30 years. In a major demolition drive, officials of P-north ward office have razed over 100 illegal shanties, 30 commercial structures and at least 12 illegal garages to clear Lagoon Road in Malwani area in Malad (West). Encroachment has been rampant [...] Continue Reading »
From the last seven years, sewage has been pouring into Gorewada lake which supplies water to 70 per cent areas of the city, yet, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has been completely unaware of it. The NMC officials decided to take action against this only after several complaints by the BJP corporator from Dhaba, Jagdish Gwalbanshi. [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Venkatadrinagar in ward 72 in Visakhapatanam city continue to suffer the effects of unauthorised cremation in their colony, despite a court order favouring them and action by municipal corporation. Venkatadrinagar Residents’ Welfare Association had filed a writ petition in the High Court seeking a direction to officials to declare the site being [...] Continue Reading »
Property tax for the commercial properties located within a radius of one kilometres from a Metro line may soon see a hike, however residential properties will be spared from the hike. All five-star and three-star hotels, private hospitals and industrial areas in the city will also be brought under the same tax net. Leaders of [...] Continue Reading »
The SGS Mall has said that the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has made an increase of 900 per cent in the annual property tax. Subhash Gulati, CMD, SGS Mall said the mall was paying an annual property tax of Rs 19.54 lakh every year adding that in 2010 the PCB revised the property tax of the mall, increasing it [...] Continue Reading »
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has finally started the exercise to impose property tax on residential properties in the city. The accounts wing of the corporation has wrote to 25 government departments and organizations besides housing societies to submit details regarding their residential accommodations in the city within a period of one month. The information has been sought from Chandigarh [...] Continue Reading »
In a bid to increase revenue as well as to address the issue of illegal building, the Kochi Corporation is planning to allot building numbers to all unauthorized buildings and then impose penalty three times the normal tax on the owners. Both residential and commercial buildings constructed without prior approval from the civic body would [...] Continue Reading »
The SGS mall in Pune Camp, which was sealed on Tuesday on charge of non-payment of property tax, was opened on Thursday evening, following an order from the district and sessions court here. Principal district and sessions judge Anant Badar ordered the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) to remove the seals on hearing an appeal filed [...] Continue Reading »
Municipal Corporation of Delhi is all set to take strict action against at least five lakh property owners all over Delhi who have not been paying conversion and regularization charges to the corporation. The east corporation is sending notices to 6,000 commercial establishments that have not paid conversion charges to the corporation and the north [...] Continue Reading »
As the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) staff’s “indefinite strike” against the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) entered the second day, the civil administration is compelled to stare at chaos. Most of BBMP officials participated in the demonstration, as the civic body decided to boycott work until the criminal cases booked against its engineers by [...] Continue Reading »
