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NASHIK: MahaRERA will now permit particularly skillful labor at construction sites to assure quality construction and further restrict accidents. The laborers also hold to advantage from insurance coverage for their family affiliates. The MahaRERA has previously begun incorporating laborers organizations on its locality and also assuring the workers do not miss their payments for the day. “Providing [...] 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 »
Amravati Municipal Corporation (AMC) held its general body meeting in which key decisions were taken regarding industrial incentives and Below Poverty Line (BPL) facilities. AMC is planning to give concession on local body tax (LBT) and house tax to the industries in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). In the general body meeting, decision has [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)‘s decision to impose fine on civic engineers who delay the process of assigning potholes to contractors has drawn flak from the agency’s engineering unit. The BMC had decided to impose fines on engineers, too, along with contractors,to address the issue issue of repairing potholes within a stipulated time. However, Brihanmumbai [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to go ahead with the seeding of clouds in the catchment areas of Bhatsa and Vaitarna lakes in September. It also extended the 10 per cent water cut further till September 15. The officials stated that seeding will be carried for 12-15 days in September, on the basis [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) website has been upgraded to display the names of all city buildings that have an occupational certificate (OC). Recently more than one lakh flat owners of 6,000 buildings in the city of Mumbai have had to bear the brunt of the absence of an OC by paying double water charges. [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s cloud seeding plan is getting delayed, as it is yet to receive the feasibility study on the project. The civic body’s had already asked the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and Mekorot, an Isareli company, which is an expert in cloud seeding experiments, to [...] Continue Reading »
Nagpur Municipal Corporation, which has been facing severe fund crisis, can breathe a sigh of relief as this year’s revenue collection so far has increased significantly compared to the previous year. The NMC generated revenue of Rs 220.81 crore in the first four months (April-July) of 2012-13, registering a significant increase against the corresponding period [...] Continue Reading »
