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BMC is coming up with a new mechanism to find out and demolish the illegal constructions or the changes that have been done in a building or apartment in Mumbai by making a special team of officials who will be responsible for eradicating such structures. This motion will be public from May onwards where at least [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has plans of including the norms for setting up mobile towers in the city. This has been planned witnessing many mobile towers coming up in the city. This initiative will be a part of development control (DC) rules which will be included in the revised Development Plan (DP) for old areas [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to eradicate the illegal mobile towers in the city. In the action, many housing societies are also going to face the heat because of the same. As per the civic body, around 1830 mobile towers out of 3705 towers in the city are illegal. Out of these, many have [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned of launching an electronic web based system to stop all the parking woes in the city. The main motive is to do away with the pay and park lots and issue printed receipts to the vehicle owners in the civic parking lots. The officials in the civic body are [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) which had kept buy and park options in some areas in South Mumbai is thinking of introducing variable parking rates in the city. The civic body is planning on a new policy to revise parking rates and that will be area specific. As of now, the rates will be higher in [...] Continue Reading »
The new property tax system proposed by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been challenged by a PIL in the Bombay High Court recently. The new property tax bill will be applicable from April 1, 2013 but has been caught amidsr many controversies. An activist named Rajendra Thacker has filed the PIL which states that the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally managed to recover Rs 8 crore of a total due amount of Rs 628 crore from the developers in Mumbai. After the modification of the fee structure to recover dues, the civic body is yet to recover Rs 71 crore, while the remaining Rs 549 crore will be collected [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has claimed that it will remove all the illegal hoardings and boards in Mumbai within 24 hours. The drive is being taken forward by the civic body as per Bombay High Court’s order. As per the high court order, all the political hoardings and banners will be removed within the stipulated [...] Continue Reading »
The new property tax system by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been opposed by the real estate builders. The developers have even showed their support to consumer associations protesting against the tax system. According to the new system, the property tax is computed based on the capital value of the property as against the earlier system of going [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given a relief to the residents of Mumbai by announcing an extension in dates for payment of property tax. Now, the last date for paying the new capital value based property tax is extended by three months. However, an official announcement is yet to be made. For many days, citizens [...] Continue Reading »
