Corporators
Lucknow- Lucknow Mayor Dinesh Sharma directed the corporation officials to form a committee in order to bring in transparency in the house tax assessment system and applicable interests on them. The decision came in following the complaints lodged by corporators about residents being overcharged and being compelled to pay compound interest during collection of taxes. [...] 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 »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has claimed that its garbage segregation strategy has met with ‘partial success’ and that there has been a huge demand for wet waste. As reports of segregation failing in many parts of the city appeared in the media, the civic body has put forward the example of Yelahanka zone [...] Continue Reading »
Orders were given by the Mayor of Allahabad, Abhilasha Gupta to extend the date of concession in house tax till October 31. The date of filing objection to the house tax was also extended till October 15. The orders were passed after complaints made by people and corporators stating that most of them haven’t got [...] Continue Reading »
The corporators in Pimpri-Chinchwad have demanded that the penalty being charged by the property tax department from citizens for unauthorised constructions after January 2008 be reduced. The PCMC property tax department has started sending notices to the owners of the unauthorised constructions directing them to pay a penalty equivalent to the property tax of the [...] Continue Reading »
Civic corporators in Mumbai have unanimously passed a resolution at the civic general body meeting on Tuesday calling for a 150% hike in their monthly remuneration, from Rs10,000 to Rs. 25,000. If it receives legal sanction, the hike will be paid by taxpayers’ money. According to the corporators, the current remuneration is a measley sum [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage issues are creating a major problem for the city of Mumbai. Mayor Sunil Prabhu put the blame on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at a civic general body meeting on Monday for the problems faced by citizens due to garbage dumping. The mayor expressed his views that contingency plan must be made for garbage [...] Continue Reading »
At the BBMP Budget session on Wednesday, Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, D Venkatesh Murthy, announced that all 198 corporators should take up an ‘andolan’ to ban plastic in their respective Wards. He added that whoever is successful in this campaign will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. Though the Palike had taken [...] Continue Reading »
The citizens of Thane in Mumbai are looking forward for huge favors to be done from the city civic wing. Residents have huge list of civic issues ready to present it in front of corporator. Everyday around 600 tonnes of garbage is being generated from maximum of 18 lakh people living in Thane! With such [...] Continue Reading »
Citizens of Bangalore keep guessing as to how namma BBMP has planned to keep all the corporators informed about the city development. The city corporators have themselves decided that iPad3 will be very useful for them to trace out the developments happening in Bangalore. The irony behind this idea is that, the BBMP mayor R [...] Continue Reading »
