BMC Mumbai
A formal proposal has been submitted to the state government to bring all the roads within the limits of Mumbai under the jurisdiction of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Sitaram Kunte the BMC Municipal Commissioner stated that his team has submitted the report to the government. It is under the purview of the government now. They [...] Continue Reading »
BMC has completely ruled out the possibility of an out of court settlement with residents in Campa. They further stated, that the present rules and regulations do not allow regularizing the illegal flats constructed in Worli society. The BMC has although provided the residents in the 96 illegal flats a little bit of relief as [...] Continue Reading »
Earlier the Supreme Court had given 6 months of time to the residents of the Campa Cola compound located in the South of Mumbai. All of them were unauthorized flats. But recently, a notice was sent by the BMC asking all of them to vacate and leave the area by the 1st of June, 2014! [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will help Mumbaikars to make an informed decision before purchasing a house in the city. Civic approved building plans and certificates issued for a project will be available online. Shailesh Gandhi, head of the technical advisory committee explains that by the month-end, building plans approved since June 2013 will be uploaded [...] Continue Reading »
In the BMC’s (Bombay Municipal Corporation) standing committee, meeting proposals of worth Rs 3000 crore, or 10 percent of its annual budget were passed by the authority in the last 4 days. This is close to 40 percent of the 110 tenders approved on the agenda. According to BMC, cost of 75 percent proposals are [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently awarded a tender of Rs 33 crore to replace age old pipelines in South Mumbai. The administration has proposed to repair or replace pipelines measuring 16.06 km from Colaba to Worli. For A, B and E wards, a Rs 15.3 crore contract has been awarded for water mains to [...] Continue Reading »
The protests by the residents of a housing society in Chunabhatti, Sion in Mumbai have been falling on deaf ears as their builder has been garnering the rent against two mobile towers on their building without fail. The rent is being paid by the service providers for the towers to the builder for the towers [...] Continue Reading »
Plots in Mumbai which have been kept aside for affordable housing is being misused. More than 40% of the land has been either lying vacant or are encroached upon now. Five out of eight plots reserved for welfare centres are misused. Around 60% of plots are only used out of total. Malad-Malwani stretch in the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently given green signal to a private developer to construct on a mangrove plot which lies in the Oshiwara-Lokhandwala area. This land is a controversial one because of a pending public interest litigation and a charge sheet. Reportedly, a commencement certificate (CC) was issued by an engineer in the BMC’s [...] Continue Reading »
As per a study by Praja Foundation, the citizens in Mumbai are not satisfied by the services provided by the civic body and corporators. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has not shown any good performance and according to the report, average citizen satisfaction levels with the civic body’s performance was only 58%. Around 29,852 complaints were [...] Continue Reading »
