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The Delhi government is to carry out surveys in 895 unauthorised colonies which were regularised last month. The surveys will be carried out to find out the basic infrastructural requirement of the colonies. According to sources, public agencies like PWD and DSIIDC will carry out the surveys following which developmental works will be started in [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Malleswaram, Bangalore have shown the way to manage the waste in a neat manner. They have launched a project ‘My Malleswaram’, to dispose of waste scientifically. The project will be carried out in association with BBMP, where 90 per cent of the wet waste collected from houses and commercial establishments in Malleswaram will [...] Continue Reading »
With just three days left for the mandatory segregation of waste imposed by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), there have been grave efforts put by the BBMP, the Residents Welfare Associations (RWA) and the Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) to ensure that the city is all spick and span and is able to manage the [...] Continue Reading »
Residents are facing inconvenience due to unmanned gates blocking access to colonies and commuters are forced to take diversion since the gates are locked during the night and often during the day. Azhar Jamal, a resident, said that the unmanned gates do not have security personnel and a request has been sent to the Resident [...] Continue Reading »
The Public Works Department (PWD) has thwarted an attempt of Greater Kailash-II Resident Welfare Association (RWA)‘s bid to install a gate on an arterial road. PWD staff knocked down the iron pillars that had been installed on a road which gives access to many other colonies – like Chittaranjan Park to Alaknanda. The PWD has [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Sushant Lok-1 in Gurgaon took to the street to put pressure on the developer to set up an additional sub-station in the area. The residents have been fed up with frequent power cuts and voltage fluctuations and even after residents’ welfare association (RWA) writing several times to the developer to set up [...] Continue Reading »
Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Association (FONRWA) has written a letter to Noida Chief Executive officer demanding conversion of leasehold to freehold and raising other unresolved issues. FONRWA says that although state government had introduced conversion to freehold and all housing boards, including Ghaziabad Development Authority, Noida authority officials were not implementing the conversion in [...] Continue Reading »
As garbage disposal remains a crucial issue, some apartments dwellers in Bangalore have taken up segregating waste at its source in their apartment complexes. Residents are following different models for the purpose. In the first model, small quantity of waste generated in households is easily segregated into wet waste (kitchen waste) and dry waste (plastic, [...] Continue Reading »
It seems that the apartment dwellers of Bangalore are to try out an eco-friendly manner of managing garbage. Experts have asked the apartments’ welfare associations to set up bio gas plants on the premises. University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore, has expressed willingness to share university’s expertise with interested residents’ associations or any such groups to set up [...] Continue Reading »
The parks and green belts of Chandigarh seem to be on its way to be maintained again. The resident welfare associations (RWAs) of Chandigarh have shown interest in the municipal corporation‘s offer to maintain green belts and neighbourhood parks. At present around 1,600 neighbourhood parks lie neglected, with Municipal Corporation expressing its helplessness to maintain [...] Continue Reading »
