GHMC
Do you know that rising construction activity and commercial establishments contribute in high pollution levels? No proper check has been done on pollution levels in Hyderabad city by the concerned authorities. Thousands of buildings are under construction spreading intolerable noise. Careless handling of building materials and lack of safety measures has been very annoying to [...] Continue Reading »
Files of real estate projects are piling up at the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) for the past two months waiting for approval. The new metropolitan commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad is said to be sending the files back to the developers red-marked with query after query so that the files stay in endless cycles. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) efforts to begin property tax collection from the beginning of the financial year have been delayed. GHMC has not even started to send demand notices to the property owners when it has to actually start collecting a penalty for delay in paying tax for the first half of the [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been looking for aid from corporate world to groom the city for the International Biodiversity Conference to be held in October. The Central Government’s refusal for support has paved way to this act of GHMC. Many leading companies including L & T, Nagarjuna Constructions, State Bank of India [...] Continue Reading »
As monsoon is on its way for many parts of India, it looks like GHMC Hyderabad is not bothered to get prepared to face the monsoon. There are still many places in the city where desiltation of the nalas is only half done and the civic body’s disaster management cell do not have enough manpower [...] Continue Reading »
There are many defaulters in Hyderabad who have been eluding property tax. For catching those people and to save crores of rupees lost as revenue in the form of property tax, GHMC Hyderabad has planned to install Geographic Information System (GIS). Two agencies, Vayum Technologies and Vensoft, will help the civic body with the endeavour [...] Continue Reading »
As the new projects under second phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) are being assigned to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), old projects under JNNURM-I worth Rs 800 crore still lie unfinished. The actual deadline given was 2012 but the center gave extra time till 2014. A total of ten projects are [...] Continue Reading »
Witnessing the poor condition of lake, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has formed a seperate branch to save lakes in the city. The new division so formed will coordinate with district collectors of Hyderabad, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), irrigation department, municipalities and gram panchayats in the surrounding localities. Hussainsagar lakes will be listed and [...] Continue Reading »
Witnessing many contracts not able to finish within the stipulated time by the contractors, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has plans of making some amendments in the current contract system. One of the reasons cited by the contractors is due to financial constrains as contracts have to be finished within the limited budget of Rs [...] Continue Reading »
GHMC has planned to revise the property tax rates for the property in Hyderabad. The owners of the real estate property in Hyderabad are expecting the general revision of property tax , which will be implemented in the next financial Year. According to sources, the GHMC has set a target to collect Rs 1000 crore [...] Continue Reading »
