BMC Mumbai
The menace created by illegal hawkers can be dealt online now! The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to open a website where one can track and complain about illegal hawkers very soon. This setting up of website will be in the lines of pothole tracking system and will be created within a month. After [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to frame a new policy to keep noise pollution to minimal at construction sites. With increasing construction of properties in Mumbai, noise pollution is also on a rise. The number of complaints related to noise pollution is increasing day by day. A policy is needed to keep a check [...] Continue Reading »
Bombay High Court has recently directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to raze the illegal structures which have been rebuilt again. This came into light after a housing society in Santa Cruz filed a petition against an unauthorized construction in front of a division bench. Hearing the case, the two Judges involved reminded the civic [...] Continue Reading »
The newly constructed buildings in Mumbai lack rainwater harvesting system. The fact has been brought into notice by social activists. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) made it mandatory for the new buildings to have rain water harvesting system in 2007. The civil administration has allocated about Rs1 crore to the rain water harvesting cell under the [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to rope in bigger, reputable firms to build roads in the city rather than small-time contractors. The civic body which had tried to bring in bigger contractors previous year but to no avail, has increased tender amounts this year. BMC has come up with three contracts worth Rs. [...] Continue Reading »
The sub standard rainfall this monsoon has compelled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to divert excess water from overflowing Modak Sagar to the Vihar lake to up its stock level. Of the six reservoirs that supply water to Mumbai, two reservoirs, Tulsi and Vihar, are located in the city, while the rest are situated in the [...] Continue Reading »
In the wake of scanty rains and below average lake levels, Mumbaikars are asked to use water sparingly while celebrating the festival of dahi handi. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has enforced the 10 per cent water cut since July 1 following poor showers and waning lake levels, has appealed to residents to use [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s cloud seeding plan is getting delayed, as it is yet to receive the feasibility study on the project. The civic body’s had already asked the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and Mekorot, an Isareli company, which is an expert in cloud seeding experiments, to [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has urged the public representatives to make a generous move to divert a portion of MP, MLA funds towards maintenance of open spaces. The Corporation is in need of fund to maintain the open spaces and in previous years the BMC has lost open land either because it failed to [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body in Mumbai has passed a bill to change the property tax calculation system from ratable to capital value based on urgent need. However, the corporators of the city have to say that there was no urgency to do the same. The corporators stated that most of them didn’t know about the proposal [...] Continue Reading »
