Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC)
In a recent report, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has revealed that civic authorities may demolish parts for a new 21-stoery residential tower in Parel, Mumbai. The demolition of parts of the tower – built by realty developer Isa Enterprises – is seemingly imminent because of certain violations in construction. According to the demolition-related details [...] Continue Reading »
The legal scuffle between the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and residents of the Campa Cola Compound in South Mumbai’s upmarket Worli area has finally come to an end, with the Supreme Court rejecting the residents’ fresh request against the eviction and demolition of illegal flats in the housing complex. The residents of the Campa Cola [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai’s skyline is changing rapidly as more and more skyscrapers are soaring into the sky. On the backdrop of the city’s high population density, developers argue that high-rises are more convenient and hold the answer to the city’s housing problems. Until now, the 60-storied Imperial Towers at Tardeo which was built in 2010, is the [...] Continue Reading »
Old and decaying underground utilities have worsened the road conditions in Mumbai as many of them have been suffered cave-ins recently. Pedder Road, Dr E Moses Road and Dr Annie Besant Road are among those roads who have witnessed cave-ins and portions of the roads have collapsed. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) do not have [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) has challenged a Bombay High Court (HC) verdict asking it to pay an amount of Rs 50 crore as collective bonus to 40,000 employees. The BMC has been arguing that it has no responsibility to pay bonus as employees had struck work last year. The BMC employees had gone to strike last [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to categorise all potholes that have been reported as severe, medium and low priority. The prioritisation will depend upon the traffic density of the road on which the pothole is located. BMC officials state that it has decided to do so to ensure potholes on busy roads are filled at [...] Continue Reading »
In the ongoing tussle, the Bombay high court has settled a long-pending property tax row in favour of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The court ruled that the civic body can fix property tax on the building based on the actual rent charged. The verdict is the latest in the saga of tax tussle between [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to disallow fixed glass sheets on facades. The decision has come on the wake of last week’s blaze at a commercial building in the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), where the firemen found it difficult to access the affected portion from outside in case of buildings with fixed glass facades. [...] Continue Reading »
A team of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) civic engineers is to conduct an audit of the pothole-filling work being carried out on city roads. The decision has been taken after 1,738 potholes were reassigned or reopened for filling. The BMC claimed that the cold-mix technology used to fill potholes is effective enough. However, recent heavy [...] 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 »
