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Since sellers don’t perceive a market for TDR Real estate,developers are able to buy TDRs at throwaway sums. Developers buy certificates issued in B or C zones (the secondary and peripheral parts of the city), and utilize them in projects in the centre of the city (part of the A zone) where land valuations are [...] Continue Reading »
Every day the satellite township produces over 300 tonnes of municipal waste. In the absence of an efficient waste management system or even a designated landfill site, residents of Noida have started taking matters into their own hands are making innovative efforts to manage waste. Residents explained that the root of the problems lies in [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Tungabhadra block in National Games Village Bangalore, succeeded in converting 90 per cent of their garbage into a reusable resource in just one month. The Bangalore city generates over 3,600 tonnes of garbage each day. The stinking problem is a cause for great concern with no proper scientific management of waste. Public [...] Continue Reading »
The District Education Officer (DEO) in Ahmedabad has asked all schools to remove mobile towers within a month. The DEO had written to all schools in January, asking them to provide details of cellphone towers, terms of contract with mobile phone companies, payment and duration. Sources say there are more than 10 schools in the [...] Continue Reading »
Eighty five year old, freedom fighter K Ramachandra struggle for BDA site. He was nominated by Gandhi Bhavan for a site allotted for freedom fighters in 2008. After two years, he explained that his site was still part of a stretch of land which was fast turning into a garbage dump. He had been unable [...] Continue Reading »
Footpaths are shrinking by the day, thanks to encroachments by hawkers, two-wheeler parking and the mess following monsoon. Cluttered pavements and roads that do not have footpaths are increasingly turning into a danger zone. Statistics show that at least 50% of those killed in road accidents in Bangalore are pedestrians and that shrinking pavements are [...] Continue Reading »
The illegal encroachments have been found in the villages of Dasanapura Hobli, Dombarahalli, Heggadadevanapura and Makali villages. Rampant encroachments around the Tippagondanahalli (TG Halli) reservoir are also largely responsible for the poor inflow of water, says the BWSSB Bangalore. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has now identified 57 encroachments and slapped notices on them to [...] Continue Reading »
Tanker Free Mumbai awareness about the availability and distribution of drinking water and to keep the tankers off the city streets. The actress Sonam Kapoor is set to join the campaign. The campaign “Tanker Free Mumbai”, intends to spread awareness about the amount of water which is adequately available for the city’s needs as per [...] Continue Reading »
Doddanakkundi Lake in Marathahalli that used to provide water to irrigate nearby fields is today choking with sewage from apartments that have recently mushroomed around it. Public concern is mounting as Doddanakundi is a hotspot for the booming real estate business. Land encroachers started to gobble up the lake area. Doddanakkundi corporator NR Sridhar Reddy [...] Continue Reading »
Though BBMP Bangalore has made it mandatory for taxpayers to pay solid waste management cess along with property tax, the cess is based, not on population, but on the size of the house. The Palike, it seems, hasn’t done any ground work to determine the average number of persons staying in a house built on [...] Continue Reading »
