Civic body
The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation has gone hi-tech with SMS services. The citizens can now get notifications about water, sewerage bills and house tax on their cell phones. The authority would send texts to the registered cellphone numbers of its consumers informing them of the due dates and even receipts. The civic body is preparing an [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will begin a crackdown against illegal hoardings from today. The illegal hoardings will include posters/flex boards/bill boards put up by political personalities/supporters/organisations conveying birthday wishes/festival greetings/obituaries on the roadside, electric poles and tree trunks. The civic body has decided to produce video graphed evidence against culprits in the court [...] Continue Reading »
The Madhya Pradesh state government‘s decision to levy Narmada tax has come under fire from various builders and property owners. The property owners are to pay tax prior to getting building permission for any construction is bound to put an additional burden on those constructing new house, as well as on those who had bought [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started an extensive drive to collect dues from property tax evaders from the city. The civic body has begun the drive as they are taking a strict stand against tax evaders. The municipal commissioner stated that they will start to seize properties of those who refuse to pay [...] 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 »
Ramky Group came under fire from Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). BBMP Mayor Venkatesh Murthy has committed to initiate criminal action against the Ramky group for serious violations of contractual obligations. The violations include non-compliance with various environmental and social standards and for contaminating soil and water in Mavallipura and surrounding villages. The mayor conceded [...] Continue Reading »
City corporation of Kozhikode is set to upgrade the register of property owned by the civic body soon. All local self-government (LSG) bodies in the state are asked to prepare a detailed register of land owned by the respective bodies. The register prepared by the local self-government bodies in 2005-2006 was converted into digital format [...] Continue Reading »
The federation of sector welfare associations of Chandigarh (FOSWAC), an umbrella body of 60 different resident welfare associations (RWA) have raised concerns regarding negligence of municipal corporation. Concerns were raised in the executive committee meeting for not addressing the common and specific problems of RWA’s seriously by the officials of municipal corporation. The issues included [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP recently passed a resolution to include Electronics City (E-city) under its jurisdiction. However, on the other hand, state cabinet is already contemplating giving industrial township status to the area. State government has to approve the resolution passed by BBMP, for it to be effective. If approved,industries and commercial areas that are notified as part [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Noida are agitated over highly-inflated water bills sent to them and mulling the option of going to court against Noida Authority. The residents have alleged that the Noida Authority has unfairly imposed the inflated bills on them and the only option left is to file a PIL. The Authority has maintained that [...] Continue Reading »
