Civic issues
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 »
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to verify the proposal for widening 216 roads in the city within a month. Roads in various ares like Goripalya, Padarayanapura, Gandhi Bazaar and Chamarajpet have been inspected by mayor D Venkatesh Murthy, following complaints from commuters. A committee has been formed to verify the proposals to widen [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to rope in bigger, reputable firms to build roads in the city rather than small-time contractors. The civic body which had tried to bring in bigger contractors previous year but to no avail, has increased tender amounts this year. BMC has come up with three contracts worth Rs. [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra state government has set up a committee under the chairmanship of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chief Sitaram Kunte to address the issue of bad roads. The new committee will work on a policy to improve the maintenance of all city roads, including non-BMC roads. It has been formed comprising of members from the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been strictly monitoring the reinstatement of roads ahead of Ganpati festival. BMC has been regularly cracking the whip on contractors in charge of pothole-filling work and has collected fines total of Rs 1.22 crore so far. Contractors under the civic body’s road department, its ward level and other related departments [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given a three-day deadline to engineers of the roads departments to inspect the major Ganpati routes in their jurisdiction. The engineers are asked to report all potholes that need to be attended to. They have been asked to report the potholes on the civic body’s website following which the [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has asked property owners who do not have water connections to pay extra property tax to make up for the delay in hiking general water tax. Owners in some localities do not have the water connection. As NMC has started to distribute property tax bills for this fiscal, property tax [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) standing committee has approved to take up a feasibility study for a sky-walk between Rathifile bus terminus and Secunderabad bus station. The standing committee gave its approval to the skywalk proposal, whose cost has been estimated at Rs 7.20 crore. The committee also gave the green signal to take [...] Continue Reading »
As per new initiatives taken by Briahmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC), the citizens of Mumbai will have a greater say in resolving civic issues at ward level. BMC officers have been asked to attend meetings conducted by the advanced locality management (ALM) and local area citizens committee (LACC). BMC commissioner Sitaram Kunte has come up with the [...] Continue Reading »
City buses stopping in the middle of the road has been creating much of traffic problems in Bhubaneswar. The problem is set to be tackled by the concerned authorities as 21 bus bays are set to start functioning from September 1 in the city. According to Dream Team Sahara, which operates the buses started under [...] Continue Reading »
