BBMP Bangalore
After the previous news and residents cry over Diamond District Apartments, located on Old Airport Road whose beams and columns at the basement of the sprawling complex had developed large cracks, the State Human Rights Commission’s (SHRC) has decided to bring some relief to the residents. SHRC has directed the BBMP to inquire within 10 [...] Continue Reading »
For the past three years, the BBMP and the BDA have been at loggerheads over the issue of building plan approvals and Occupancy Certificates (OC). The fight intensified after the elected body in the Palike came into being last year. The BBMP Bangalore has drawn up a list of 583 buildings within the BBMP limits, [...] Continue Reading »
Resident Welfare Associations (RWA) from areas like Malleshwaram, Jayanagar, JP Nagar, Shanti Nagar, Eijipura, Bharati Nagar, RT Nagar, Banashankari and Rammurthy Nagar have resolved to take extreme measures to make their point. Meanwhile, others claim that the Sankey Tank residents have set an example and other areas will soon follow suit. The residents of Sankey [...] Continue Reading »
Fund-crunched BBMP Bangalore started serving notices property tax defaulters. In the first phase of the drive, the focus is more on the properties that have to pay tax to the tune of more than Rs one lakh. BBMP has started serving notices to property tax defaulters in Mahadevapura zone. There are 180 such properties in [...] Continue Reading »
The guidance value of properties in Bangalore hiked. The revision had not taken place in the past four years and difference between guidance value and market value was huge. The government was incurring a huge loss in revenue as guidance value was not on a par with market value. Currently, the guidance value revision is [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will henceforth not grant building plans/licences without a no-objection certificate from the Fire and Emergency Services. The notification directs the BBMP not to issue occupancy certificates to buildings if fire safety measures had not been provided under the building byelaws, zonal regulations, etc. As directed by the High Court, [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Mantri Greens Apartment felt they were pushed to the streets and allege that the BBMP demolished ramp is only a small part of the story. The Mantri Green Bangalore residents, who constitute around 400 families, are having a hard time getting themselves accustomed to the sudden disarray caused, that that too without any [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of the prestigious Diamond District Apartments, located on Old Airport Road, are a worried lot. Around 100 cement pillars on which the apartment complex stands have developed cracks due to seepage. Residents of Diamond District allege that beams and columns at the basement of the sprawling complex have developed large cracks. The builder, entrusted [...] Continue Reading »
Builders in collusion with the officials have encroached upon vast extent of lake land to construct apartment complexes and form layouts. Their modus operandi is simple: Dump debris to fill the lake. Once a portion is levelled off, usurp it by creating fictitious documents. The defiant act doesn’t end there. A survey of 842 lakes [...] Continue Reading »
Fearing land sharks, Bangalore citizens want their properties protected. But in their rush to do that, they often fall prey to conmen, adept at fabricating documents, falsifying survey numbers and every other trick in the real estate trade. The issue of khatha is a major problem, particularly for the residents of the new BBMP areas. [...] Continue Reading »
