BMC Mumbai
Unconvinced with the new way of calculating property tax, citizens in Mumbai are planning to move to Bombay High Court regarding the same. The new method is based on the capital value-based system. The major concern of the residents lies with the ground realities which affects a property’s price, are not taken into consideration in [...] Continue Reading »
BMC has claimed that no new taxes and charges will be included in the BMC budget to be announced for 2013-14 financial year. Also, the civic body is unlikely to announce any new projects or schemes in the next fiscal year. BMC is all set to recover Rs 29,000 crore to Rs 30,000 crore budget [...] Continue Reading »
BMC has admitted that it did not act upon the illegal activities that were going on in a residential building in Sion. In a recent response to a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, it came into light that the civic body has not taken any action against an unlicensed residential building in [...] Continue Reading »
With the new property tax system in place, the Property Owners’ Association (POA) has called for a meeting, in which they asked the BMC to reconsider the new tax system. The new capital value-based property tax system has not gone well with the owners/landlords as it does not offer any cap for buildings that got [...] Continue Reading »
With the new property tax bills arriving, residents from Mumbai suburbs have joined hands against it. With this, the rest of the city also is not behind and has melded into chorus. The residents claim that the new system is ‘draconian’ and has slapped exorbitant arrears which have to be paid within March 15. As [...] Continue Reading »
In yet another instance, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has failed to recover dues worth Rs 2800 crore as per internal audit reports. Also, they have failed to recover another Rs 2264 crore dues from the state. Around 51 audit reports were prepared contain 1.5 lakh audit notes. The civic body preferred to stay silent over [...] Continue Reading »
After the protests by citizens on draft policy on the installation of mobile phone towers, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to seek their suggestions for the same. The draft policy, announced recently, got many bad remarks from the citizens. Due to which, the civic body has planned to include recommendations before it finalises the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to install dustbins along the drains in the city to prevent slum dwellers from dumping garbage into nullahs. These bins will be installed in 400 spots around the city after the civic body carries a nullah cleaning drive before monsoon to clean the Mumbai city garbage. Around 400 spots [...] Continue Reading »
Good news for the residents of South Mumbai! The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently planned to set up a new sewage treatment plant at its sewage pumping station near Hanging Gardens, Malabar Hill. With the set up of the new plant, residents of Malabar Hill and Girgaum in Mumbai city will have three million [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently passed a new garbage collection scheme to keep the city’s slum clean. This new scheme has been introduced to keep a check and break the monopoly of present contractors who are appointed under the old scheme and to ensure better garbage collection services in slums. The new scheme called [...] Continue Reading »
