Civic body
The empowered committee headed by Minister Shanti Dhariwal, cleared 45 pending cases related to land allotment, conversion and regularization. To expedite the development work, the committee cleared the files that were stuck in the bureaucratic cycle for long. Of the cases, nine pertained to land regularization in residential colonies, 18 were of acquired land. Another [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council has passed a resolution to include Electronics City under its fold for administrative purposes. As per resolution, villages in and around Electronics City will be merged under the BBMP’s jurisdiction. At present the electronic city has a total built up area of over 3 crore sq. feet. Though [...] Continue Reading »
After re-imposing property tax in Haryana, the state government has given 90 days to property owners to sort out the issues of tax diminution and self-assessment as according to government officials, from November 1, civic bodies will begin serving demand notices. Haryana has around 20 lakh property tax payers, 2.5 lakh and 2.45 lakh from [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has been dysfunctional for some months now as appointment of the head still waits. The complaints being carried to the BDA headquarters on T Chowdaiah Road remain unanswered and even unheard as the newly appointed commissioner had been transferred as the principal secretary to the chief minister, leaving the civic agency [...] Continue Reading »
Auctions taken up recently by government agencies – the A.P. Housing Board and Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) included 42 plots in the city and the suburbs. As per plan, the HMDA has come up with a round of auctions that has placed the plots under the hammer and the civic body expects to raise [...] Continue Reading »
There is no civic body to take care of sewage water overflow at Siddapura Lake near Thobaralli and this has set a classic example of neglection shown by the civic authorities. The sewage water, which is flowing from thousands of dwellings including BEML Layout, ASC Layout and various apartments at different localities in Bangalore, is [...] Continue Reading »
The construction work on the 7-km Holi- Uttrala tunnel at Himachal Pradesh will start soon. The proposed cost of construction is Rs 1571 crore. The detail project report has been prepared. The distance between Holi in Chamba district and Uttarala in Kangrawill be reduced by the construction of the tunnel. Presently any person has to [...] Continue Reading »
The under construction drain between Ram Mandir Square and Housing Board Square creates trouble to the residents of the locality. The civic body has started digging works for construction of drains. But the work places are left uncovered and unguarded. There are chances that the school children and commuters may fall into the ditch. The [...] Continue Reading »
Today, Mumbai city has grown so big that it has world class infrastructures, civic facilities and what not? All these favorable factors has made Mumbai, a favorite real estate hot spot as well as residential hot spot for the visitors from across the country. However, “environment” is one backlog which demands attention and alarming in [...] Continue Reading »
The growth of illegal sheds is being observed in the surrounding area of Suncity Apartment in the buffer zone of Bellandur Lake in Bangalore. The whole stretch of Outer Ring Road-Sarjapur Main Road junction in Iblur is surrounded not only by illegal sheds but with worse civic facilities. Whoever passes by or resides in this [...] Continue Reading »
