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The BMC recently has been the cause of much public despair and angst, for considering a proposal that would bring construction activity under the purview of local body tax (LBT). The recently introduced Local Body Tax (LBT) in Maharashtra empowers the local civil body to levy taxes on traders for importing goods into the city. [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai’s civic body has decided to demolish the 35 illegal floors in the seven high rises of the Campa Cola Compound. The Supreme Court has refused to regularize them and the residents have given a time of five months to vacate the premise. Only six floors were permitted but the builders had illegally constructed excessively [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently awarded a tender of Rs 33 crore to replace age old pipelines in South Mumbai. The administration has proposed to repair or replace pipelines measuring 16.06 km from Colaba to Worli. For A, B and E wards, a Rs 15.3 crore contract has been awarded for water mains to [...] Continue Reading »
The protests by the residents of a housing society in Chunabhatti, Sion in Mumbai have been falling on deaf ears as their builder has been garnering the rent against two mobile towers on their building without fail. The rent is being paid by the service providers for the towers to the builder for the towers [...] Continue Reading »
Plots in Mumbai which have been kept aside for affordable housing is being misused. More than 40% of the land has been either lying vacant or are encroached upon now. Five out of eight plots reserved for welfare centres are misused. Around 60% of plots are only used out of total. Malad-Malwani stretch in the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently given green signal to a private developer to construct on a mangrove plot which lies in the Oshiwara-Lokhandwala area. This land is a controversial one because of a pending public interest litigation and a charge sheet. Reportedly, a commencement certificate (CC) was issued by an engineer in the BMC’s [...] Continue Reading »
As per a study by Praja Foundation, the citizens in Mumbai are not satisfied by the services provided by the civic body and corporators. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has not shown any good performance and according to the report, average citizen satisfaction levels with the civic body’s performance was only 58%. Around 29,852 complaints were [...] Continue Reading »
With the fast pacing growth in the city with high rise, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no idea of the number of open spaces or plots in Mumbai. The civic body which is an authority body, supposed to keep records of all the plots available in the city, but fails to do so. It does [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is developing a video feature on its pothole-tracking website to upload videos. The website for this purpose was launched in November 2011 and currently, the citizens can upload only pictures clicked through their android phones. Very soon, uploading the videos of the potholes in the city will be an option. The [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started a survey in every ward to identify buildings which have been constructed on top of water pipelines in the city. Recently, a major water pipeline under a building in Govandi has bursted which took life of a resident leading the civic body to go on with this move. Now, two [...] Continue Reading »
