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A latest order by BMC spell trouble for the Breach Candy tower built on a one-acre plot by the Singhanias of Raymond. A report prepared by municipal commissioner Sitaram Kunte says that the so much concession approved to the developers is responsible for huge construction. The report also says that the construction area is more [...] 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 »
Even though, the BMC is thinking to regularize the illegal flats at Worli’s Campa Cola Compound, it is still to initiate the much promised project to register builders and hold them accountable in case of illegalities. In the light of the proposed demolition of around 35 illegal floors at the Campa Cola Compound, the civic [...] Continue Reading »
Though the district administration and civic body are of the firm view that the encroachments need to be demolished, both sides have been playing the blame game. Rashtriya Jagran Manch, a local voluntary organization demanded the boundary demarcation of the ashram and neighbouring Blair Colony. Ajay Gaur, general secretary of the organization voiced his concerns [...] Continue Reading »
The residents have again asked the civic administration for regularization unauthorized flats in Worli’s Campa Cola Compound. It has been two weeks since the Supreme Court asked residents of illegal and and the BMC to find a solution to their ongoing row. February 3 verdict of the Supreme Court (SC) granted the occupants four week [...] Continue Reading »
In a bid to keep the builders on toes and shift the onus of structural stability of a building on developers, Sitaram Kunte, the Municipal Commissioner has made building proposal approvals more stringent. In addition to other things that builders need to factor in , they will now have to ensure that precautionary measures are [...] Continue Reading »
A repeat land acquisition notice has been issued by BMC to a home for the dying and destitute in Santa Cruz. The notice requires them surrender part of its compound for road-widening. The activists, however, point out that the traffic bottleneck is near the station, not the hospice. Providing shelter to 65 mentally disabled inmates [...] Continue Reading »
Maharashtra environment department’s January 30 circular has raised concerns among builders that they may have to face even more red tape and delay in procuring green clearances for large building projects. The new circular stipulates that builders must now mandatorily get their projects approved by the BMC first and only then approach the environment department for clearance. Currently, the developers [...] Continue Reading »
A total of eight illegally constructed houses were demolished in Fatpalsar ward town planning (TP) scheme by Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday. As per the BMC officials, the demolition was carried out with bulldozers after it was brought to the notice of the authorities that a few people had illegally constructed houses on the [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will penalise unauthorized constructions or extensions at twice the property tax levied on the entire illegal area. An amendment was made in April 2010, to section 152(a) of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 to accommodate the new structure for calculation of property tax. The announcement was made by Municipal [...] Continue Reading »
