Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) started eviction drive at Ejipura quarters near the National Games Village in Koramangala. The slum dwellers will be relocated temporarily at Iggalur in Anekal taluk till the time the construction is completed. The BBMP carried out the drive and demolished 32 shanties. Later, each of the displaced families was given [...] Continue Reading »
The Subramanyapura lake in Uttarahalli, which was left unnoticed for nearly five years, will now get a new life and the recovery work will be done by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in association with other civic agencies and government bodies. Higher official of BBMP visited that lake and found that the lake was illegally [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP committee explained that different approaches will be adopted to handle various types of waste. The committee made it very clear that the residents will be punished if segregation is not done at source. BBMP will not collect waste which are not segregated. Apartments in Bangalore too will have to segregate waste at source. [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to replace the expansion joints on the Sirsi Circle flyover and the flyover will be partially closed to traffic. All the 14 joints will be replaced at a cost of Rs. 2.65 crore. Replacement of each joint will require at least five days. There was a huge [...] Continue Reading »
The Urban Property Ownership Records (UPOR) project is stabilising in the four cities of Mysore, Shimoga, Hubli-Dharwad and Mangalore. The plan is to electronically link the offices of the sub-registrars, corporations and municipalities, courts, and the Department of Survey, Settlement and Land Records (SSLR). Once the project is over, detailed record of the properties can [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- The Cabinet has approved acquisition of land identified by BBMP to set up solid waste processing units in Bangalore. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had put forth a proposal of purchasing 476 acres of land in Arudi village near Doddaballapur, and 600 acres in Togarighatta in Tumkur district. The responsibility of buying the [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP has finally decided to withdraw the three percent garbage cess on the property tax collected from bulk generators in the Palike council meeting. The cess had become a argument between the bulk generators and the civic agency. The high court questioned Palike about the logic behind imposing garbage cess when the bulk generators [...] Continue Reading »
Good news for the commuters and motorists who travel from Rajajinagar,Vijayanagar and Basaveshwaranagar. The civic body is going to begin the work of Okalipuram eight lane project which was initiated in November 2008 by urban development minister S Suresh Kumar. After four years, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has given the contract to Simplex Infrastructure and Jagadish [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- All residents are likely to be asked not to mix up biomedical waste with municipal solid waste. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning on making it mandatory to segregate biomedical waste generated by residences. The Palike would authorise agencies to deal with biomedical waste and it will be ensured that residents give [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- As per the 12th Five Year Plan, a high-tech hospital has been proposed to be established in each zone of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Under the National Urban Health Mission, a part of the 12th Five Year Plan, modern health care units with a capacity of over 100 beds each with diagnosis, [...] Continue Reading »
