Civic issues
Following the December 5, 2011 Supreme Court ruling directing all nursing homes and banks to move out of residential plots, the Noida Authority had directed them to shut operations. However, when being approached by the displaced nursing homes, the apex court directed the Noida Authority to allot land at reasonable rates within three months. In [...] Continue Reading »
The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) seems to have taken up an active stand to address the civic issues ailing the city. Recently they carried out drive against illegal hoardings removing 14 hoardings from different places in the city. The BMC squad seized all the material required to set up a hoarding including iron rods and [...] Continue Reading »
According to a report prepared by Praja Foundation, the city’s state of health is in a bad shape. Along with physical infrastructure, the city’s social infrastructure too is precarious. The report is based on a survey of 15,000 households across various wards in the city. It shows that sensitive diseases have almost doubled in the [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to spend Rs 980 crore on concretization and upgrading of asphalt roads. The civic body will float the tenders soon and the work will most likely begin in October. Seeking to redress the pitiful condition of roads in the city, BMC plans to introduce measures to ensure quality work [...] Continue Reading »
In a welcome initiative, The Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, a not-for-profit organization in Bangalore, has launched a website to connect the city’s residents with administration officials and elected representatives. The website, www.ichangemycity.com, will allow the residents to post complaints related to civic issues such as sewage problems that will be collated and sent [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Dwarka have planned to save the life of a dying pond. The residents are living in apartments as well as in nearby Pochanpur Village. They started de-silting the pond with spades after authorities did not listen to their call for giving the pond a shot of life. The pond that looks more [...] Continue Reading »
The delay in execution of the construction of an 18-km Kakrigumma-Laxmipur road that is part of Ranchi-Vijayawada corridor has become a nightmare for commuters in the district. Only 40% of the Rs 36-crore road project has been completed so far. The project started in February 2010 was supposed to be completed by February 2012. The [...] Continue Reading »
Marathalli was a small village on the outskirts of Bangalore. Recently the area has emerged as a colony for a sizable IT population of Bangalore. Property market of Bangalore saw a rapid growth in Marathalli. Several high rising luxurious apartments are present in Marathalli. Recently the residents of the apartments in Marathalli are facing many [...] Continue Reading »
In the Nagpur Municipal area more than 12 places are there, where water pipe lines have leakage, resulting thousands of liters of water spoiled everyday. The residents of the apartments in Shanti nagar, complained about the water leakage several times. But no preventive steps taken. The residence community of Mudliyar Layout also complained about the [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore as a city has grown up pretty big, however the civic issues are never upto the mark. The residents belonging to various apartments in Bangalore have been facing the burnt of improper civic facilities. To check and keep track of recent civic issues, the Ejipura New Extension Residents’ Association (ENERA) and BTM constituency MLA [...] Continue Reading »
