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Tax payers this year can heave a sigh of relief that the corporation will not be going ahead with the 15% revision, as per the revised Self Assessment Scheme rulebook. From April 1, 2011 BBMP starts collecting property tax for for 2011-12. For property owners, March 31 is last day to pay their property tax [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP asks citizens to alert civic body about illegal dumping of debris in lakes and other places. Their names will not be made public. At the same time, they will be given a Rs 2,000 cash reward while the culprits will be fined Rs 10,000. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) wants the help of citizens [...] Continue Reading »
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has appointed 20 special officers to monitor water supply in the City this summer. They will also verify complaints recorded at the service station, check water supply in the area and inspect areas from where repeated complaints are received. Besides, the officers will monitor water supply through [...] Continue Reading »
The Karnataka High Court directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (Greater Bangalore Municipal Body) to evolve a mechanism in two months time to prevent fire accidents in high rise buildings resulting in loss of human lives. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice A S Bopanna passed the order while hearing a [...] Continue Reading »
The builder held for inferior construction. The Economic Offences Wing of the crime branch arrested the builder, Avdesh Mittal, on Friday after investigations showed that the concrete used in construction of a five-storeyed building in the M Block market road in Greater Kailash-I was of poor quality and the structure can collapse in case of [...] Continue Reading »
Karnataka will probably be the first state in the country to have a fire station on the secretariat premises. The fire station, to be set up at a cost of Rs 1.25 crore, will also serve safety needs of the Karnataka high court and MS Buildings. The need for a fire station was felt many [...] Continue Reading »
Unable to cope with the growing need for the potable water, HDMC has now decided to make RWH compulsory in new buildings coming up in the Hubli-Dharwad twin cities. Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation has made Rainwater harvesting compulsory. If owners of new buildings fail to set up rainwater harvesting (RWH) facility in their buildings, the Corporation [...] Continue Reading »
The model real estate Bill has been redrafted to safeguard buyers from builders and land sharks.Under the new Act, builders risk losing their license for not keeping promises on deadline or quality In a move to safeguard buyers from builders and land sharks and regulate the real estate sector, the housing and urban poverty alleviation [...] Continue Reading »
Don’t let your tax benefits slip away March is always a hectic month for working professionals.While most people spend a lot of time and effort on attempting to identify the best tax-saving avenue, few pay attention to the possibility that what has been saved once need not remain in the savings kitty forever. In the [...] Continue Reading »
BWSSB Minister S Suresh Kumar officially announced that rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a compulsory rule and the 56,000 houses identified so far, will have to install them. He said the citizens must reduce their dependence on borewells as the groundwater table had depleted. Among the 100 borewells dug by the BWSSB in 2010, nearly 50 [...] Continue Reading »
