BMC
There are numerous trenches lying open across the city indicating a grim situation for the BMC before the rains set in moreover with barely seven days left to the official deadline to complete all road works. One out of every 5km of carriageways was dug up. And, the BMC doesn’t have exact data of how [...] 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 »
The Bombay high court have granted stay of execution to an under-construction high-rise at Worli Seaface, the Sea Green housing society that had come under the scanner over alleged Adarsh-like violations for not obtaining CRZ approval and consuming extra FSI. In an interim order last week a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC has requested chief electoral officer to appoint a contractor to demolish 35 floors across seven buildings in Worli’s Campa Cola society. The residents have been told by the Supreme Court last November to vacate the flats by May 31 to allow the BMC to demolish the illegal flats. Additional municipal commissioner Mohan Adtani [...] Continue Reading »
An official says that the forest officers at the state level would be required to scrutinize applications within 10 days and if no questions are raised, the proposal is to be accepted under a new paper less approval mechanism that consists of state as well as central-level forest clearances. It is an eight stage process. [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body has started work to modify more than 1,000 roads. It will improve medians and footpaths while simultaneously taking up carriageway works. Nearly 3000 crore has been sanctioned for the road improvement project which is part of BMC’s master plan submitted to the Bombay high court last year. The BMC is searching new [...] Continue Reading »
Mr. Sitaram Kunte, municipal commissioner, of the BMC has given time till 10 April to issue the notices for structural tests to over 18,000 buildings that are more than 30 years old. It is compulsory for the societies to organize a non destructive test before the submission of the structural audit report to the BMC. [...] Continue Reading »
As per the data available with BMC, out of 593, only 30 percent dangerous buildings in the city have so far been vacated. After the 7 storey building in Vakola collapsed on an adjoining chawl last week in which 7 persons got injured, the BMC is now focusing on getting evacuated the dangerous building in [...] Continue Reading »
A complaint was filed in the Bombay high court by a Thane resident claiming that two civic bodies had authorized cluster redevelopment in their areas without doing any impact evaluation study of the scheme. On March 19 hearing will be done on the PIL filed by Dattatray Daund. Daund alleged that impact assessment study should [...] Continue Reading »
If a notice of motion likely to be taken up during Tuesday’s civic general body meeting is accepted, Redevelopment of properties in suburban Mumbai will receive a major fillip. There is a proposal for raising the cap on floor space index (FSI), which can be utilised for such projects by paying a premium amount to [...] Continue Reading »
