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Nagpur- As soon as the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) proposed cash value-based property tax technique, they committed that the stress will be more than twice the existing tax and thrice the current taxes pertaining to business oriented taxpayers. However, the tax may rise if anyone includes the 20-30% additional tax for essential services. If the [...] Continue Reading »
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, (KSPCB) along with Bangalore traffic police and resident welfare associations have taken the initiative to lower down noise pollution on the city roads. For this, a message ‘No Horn Monday’ has been circulated against the sound polluters. Vaman Acharya, KSPCB chairman is planning to carry out the project in other areas of [...] Continue Reading »
The government has decided to raise the amount on annual income for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Lower Income Groups (LIG) to get the benefits of housing scheme. The income declared for EWS have been raised to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 60,000 and for LIG it has been raised to Rs 2 lakhs as [...] Continue Reading »
After the failure of various schemes like Ashraya Yojana and Rajiva Awas Yojana, the government is planning to build apartments for poor instead of independent houses which occupy more space. The government is planning to accommodate 2,000 to 3,000 citizens in each apartment complex. The Hubli-Dharwad Urban Development Authority (HDUDA), HDMC and the slum board [...] Continue Reading »
A 22 cottah plot of land in Rajarhat, Kolkata has been sold out to set up a polyclinic cum daycare centre has drawn Rs 6.85 crore in an auction. November 9 was the last day of application. The New Town lacks polyclinics and hospitals, so the residents have to depend on neighbouring areas. To bring [...] Continue Reading »
The civic corporation has identified 3,600 mobile towers among which 1,800 are illegal towers in the metropolis and now Sitaram Kunte, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner is thinking to take action against their operators. The councilors in the BMC advised to take stringent action against the illegal mobile tower operators. The health risks like [...] Continue Reading »
The municipal corporations are finding it difficult to check structural safety of buildings as only less than 5% of property owners applying for completion certificates. The civic agencies are planning to convince the people of the country to incur the completion certificate. S.S. Yadav, commissioner, East Delhi Municipal Corporation said that in Hyderabad the owners [...] Continue Reading »
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided at a meeting of the BMC corporators to build three footbridges in Bhbaneswar. The bridges would be constructed at Jayadev Vihar, Master Canteen and Rupali Square and each footbridge would reportedly be developed at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore. As per the agreement, the contractor would make profit [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation of Guragon (MCG) has conceded that it will fall way short of achieving property tax target it has set for itself in the current financial year. The MCG aimed to collect Rs 500 crore this year. However, even after six months it has barely managed to collect only around Rs 50 crore [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sources say that expenditure on solid waste management may come down soon. The civic body spends around Rs 400 crore on solid waste management at present. The contractors participated in the new garbage tenders had quoted up to 40 per cent less. With relaxation of terms and conditions in [...] Continue Reading »
