Civic administration
As Hyderabad reels under severe power crisis, the city civic bodies have decided to adopt power-saving measures. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to reduce the illumination of advertising hoardings and streetlights. With these cutbacks, the civic body is hoping to save 5 million units per month. Of the total 3,300 advertising hoardings [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore civic administration has promised to rid the city from thousands of tonnes of overflowing garbage. However, search for land to dump garbage is not yet over. The residents around Mandur, about 45 km north of Bangalore, have agreed to resumption of dumping of garbage in the area on the fulfillment of certain conditions. The [...] Continue Reading »
As the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) staff’s “indefinite strike” against the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) entered the second day, the civil administration is compelled to stare at chaos. Most of BBMP officials participated in the demonstration, as the civic body decided to boycott work until the criminal cases booked against its engineers by [...] Continue Reading »
Civic administration in Bangalore came to a halt on Wednesday as 12,000 employees of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) stopped their work. The employees were protesting against the alleged interference of the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) in BBMP’s work. With the employees’ union threatening to continue with the protest a bunch of civic [...] Continue Reading »
Civic corporators in Mumbai have unanimously passed a resolution at the civic general body meeting on Tuesday calling for a 150% hike in their monthly remuneration, from Rs10,000 to Rs. 25,000. If it receives legal sanction, the hike will be paid by taxpayers’ money. According to the corporators, the current remuneration is a measley sum [...] Continue Reading »
As traffic problem ails Bhopal, over 10 commercial complexes in the busy New Market allegedly have constructed shops in the basement reserved for parking, thus making the shops illegal. It has been pointed out as a contributing factor to clog the busy roads as visitors are forced to park their vehicles out on the road. [...] Continue Reading »
A ray of hope for residents residing in old flats in South Mumbai. The much hyped capital value-based property tax system which was about to get launched is stalled for time being. The state civic administration who had proposed of the tax system has decided to table it later few months. As the upcoming polls [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has failed deliberately in proving proper infrastructure for the city roads in Pune. Nearly 50 percent of the city roads stretched along the radius of 1,800 km are lacking storm water drain facilities. This came into the notice of city improvement committee (CIC) during the commence of heavy rainfall. Chairman of [...] Continue Reading »
The traffic authorities in Pune have said that with the massive increase in the number of vehicles on the roads every year, parking problems are going to increase and that the carriage width of the roads will be reduced if roads are increasingly used to park vehicles. The traffic authorities have also pointed out that [...] Continue Reading »
