BMC Mumbai
In Mumbai, motorists have been plagued by the bad roads, with traffic being delayed and vehicles damaged. People have faced health problems, too, with back ailments on the rise. Critics said the BMC chief was surrendering to fate by blaming the rains for poor pothole repairs. They said the city is being left to the [...] Continue Reading »
As the 2012 civic polls are nearing, BMC general body has planned to name 43 chowks, gardens and roads across the city. Most of these chowks are T intersections that didn’t have any nomenclature before. Now, they sport some long-winding names and tongue twisters. Observers were surprised that all the requests were cleared in one [...] Continue Reading »
Till Monday evening, as many as 210 complaints were still pending and only 156 had been closed. The maximum number of complaints came from the western suburbs. Of the 189 complaints registered from there, 121 are pending. The BMC has not fined a single contractor this year for not attending to potholes. In the western [...] Continue Reading »
BMC Mumbai sinks Rs 64 Lakh in renovation of a half-acre park in Sion Mumbai. The shoddy work has already left much of the facilities unusable. Local corporator Upendra Doshi billed the BMC Rs 9.52 lakh for carpeting H B Shivdasani Udyan, the public park opposite SIES College, Sion (West), with red earth, revealed an [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai, which has budgeted Rs 40 cr this year to fix bad patches and potholes, continues carrying out repair work during the four months of the monsoon. But heavy rain this year has prevented them from doing their job properly. Even flyovers have developed potholes. Due to constant criticism from [...] Continue Reading »
A 1,500-sq-ft flat can grow to 2,500 to 4,000 sq ft and cost Rs 10 crore to Rs 16 crore. The main intention is to amalgamate extra spaces with the original carpet area to create one large flat. Law-abiding citizens who buy such flats become criminals and, therefore, corrupt civic officials can keep returning to [...] Continue Reading »
The Byculla plot is occupied by 11 dilapidated municipal tenanted buildings constructed after 1940 with 278 tenants of Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) as well as 162 slumdwellers. BMC has decided to call for public bids to benefit tenants as well as boost its coffers while developing its property at Saat Rasta, Byculla, the Bombay High [...] Continue Reading »
Bombay HC questioned the State’s power to cancel the proposal after the issuance of Letter of intent
Bombay high court set aside an order passed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) cancelling a sanctioned proposal for the construction of a multi-storeyed public parking lot at Kalachowkie in central Mumbai. A division bench of Justice D K Deshmukh and Justice R G Ketkar was hearing a petition filed by Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Pvt Ltd [...] Continue Reading »
On Sunday, the water main attached to Upper Vaitarna has developed a 12-inch leak on its wall. As it is one of the main sources of water to the city, a 25% cut in the supply will be imposed on Fort, Marine Lines, Malabar Hill, Dadar, Parel, Bandra (east), (west) and Andheri (east), (west). The [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) likely to adopt Bihar housing policy, a housing policy initiated by Nitish Kumar’s government in Bihar. Under the new policy, the civic body just notifies the detailed guidelines, according to which the architects are required to plan the new projects. The Bihar pattern will shortly be recommended by the centre to [...] Continue Reading »
