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In one of the first real estate sentiment indices, Industry body FICCI and residential and commercial property consultancy, Knight Frank India have concluded an overall negative sentiment for realty across all zones including the National Capital Region (NCR) and Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The index further cited that the mood have got worse than what it was in the last [...] Continue Reading »
Despite the Defence Colony residents sincerely segregating dry and wet waste, the unconcerned Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) pourakarmikas are mixing up the waste collected from them. Distressed residents are now planning on a systematic disposal of waste through private agencies. The untrained garbage collectors have been messing up the segregated wastes in the garbage trolleys, [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- The high court will hear petitions filed by garbage contractors objecting the modern tenders and also the public interest litigation (PIL) producing problem about the city’s ruin wreck. The State Government and the BBMP are confused as they do not know what to do regarding garbage issue. The civic bodies are at the focal [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- Inside the wish of smashing contractors’ corporation monopoly, the BMC designed strategy of awarding deals for maintenance tasks of “ward roads” and decided to swap to an on the net process. The civic body said that no manual interference will be allowed in the tender process for the new web-based mechanism. For maintenance and [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- As the movement of garbage-laden trucks to various landfills had slowed down in Bangalore on Monday, collection of waste was interrupted. Around 360 trucks had lifted 3,800 tonnes of garbage in the city on Sunday, but most of them failed to reach the landfills till Monday afternoon due to issues like narrow roads, a [...] 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 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s ambitious plans to monitor road contractors’ work quality may not take off soon. The BMC had invited tenders worth Rs 120 crore to repair potholes and asked contractors to install sensors and GPS devices on their machinery to enable the civic body to monitor quality. BMC made it compulsory for contractors [...] Continue Reading »
A team of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) civic engineers is to conduct an audit of the pothole-filling work being carried out on city roads. The decision has been taken after 1,738 potholes were reassigned or reopened for filling. The BMC claimed that the cold-mix technology used to fill potholes is effective enough. However, recent heavy [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) began re-carpeting of Gurgaon city roads after rains had caused waterlogging and potholes on the city roads. The impact of rains on the city roads, including those carpeted a couple of months ago, has been highlighted in the press and the authority has promptly reacted to the matter. The [...] Continue Reading »
In order to improve garbage collection, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to start a second shift. The BBMP council passed a resolution to hike the tender amount for garbage contractors by 20 per cent. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy pointed out irregularities among garbage contractors as many of them claim bills without cleaning [...] Continue Reading »
