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Shashank says in one of his blog post “I have been staying in one of the complex in Bangalore which consists of more than 2000 flats. After staying and observing things for 2 months, below are the list of my findings”: Where you will see at least one relocation truck (vehicle) in a day. Where [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of maduravoyal-Chennai raise stink over dumping yard near school. Residents say seepage from the dump has polluted groundwater, making it unfit for use. Besides the stench, heaps of domestic waste, plastic and rotting carcasses pose serious health risk to residents. Garbage from Porur and Virugambakkam is dumped in the yard everyday. Neighbours complained of [...] Continue Reading »
An NRI/PIO is allowed to send abroad up to $1 million from the sale of property in any one financial year.This amount should be the sale proceeds of property inherited by him out of rupee funds. The $1 million remittance can also be made from the balances held in Non Resident Ordinary Rupee (NRO) Accounts. [...] Continue Reading »
It was a providential escape for 25 families living in a five-storied apartment complex. The residents of Vaibhav Hills apartment at Marripalem VUDA Colony woke up with a jolt at 4. 30 a.m. when a passerby noticed the retaining wall giving way and alerted them. The slippage of red soil on the rear side of [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore is a thirsty city, and faces a shortage of 225 million litres of water per day (mld). This shortfall is expected to go up to 1030 mld by 2036. Even the Cauvery is not enough for a Bangalore and The BWSSB is now looking far and wide, and proposes to fetch water from the [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of the upscale Sadashivanagar had wanted the civic authorities to either restrict movement of vehicles on 18th cross road or to provide them with more parking space. BBMP responded to it, saying it would widen the road at the cost of pavements to give residents their desired parking space. Now the civic body [...] Continue Reading »
Karnataka State Government assured the High Court that it will not carry out midnight drives to demolish unauthorized constructions in the City. The affidavit submitted by the Advocate General Ashok Harnahalli to the Court said the government had issued a circular to all city corporations and municipal corporations in the State directing them on the [...] Continue Reading »
As per rough estimates prepared by the Housing and Land Rights Network NGO, more than two lakh people lost their homes in different Games-related projects. People rendered homeless due to forced eviction and displacement during the Commonwealth Games gathered in the capital. At least 200 homes in Dargah Bhure Shah camp and Madrasi camp falling [...] Continue Reading »
An amendment to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) Act was made in August 2009 to make rainwater harvesting system (RWH) mandatory for new constructions and a nine-month deadline for existing buildings but there was confusion as the specifics were not clear. The government now cleared the air by issuing the necessary guidelines [...] Continue Reading »
Everybody involved in the TDR (transferable development rights) tangle seems to have forgotten a simple truth. The TDR was a scheme meant to preserve open spaces and heritage buildings in the heart of a city, moving development to outskirts. But in Bangalore, it has morphed into taking chunks of land away from home owners. BBMP, [...] Continue Reading »
