Government
Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is to order a probe into the alleged irregularities in the work taken up by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in removing silt from drains in the last three years. CM stated this in response to the janata Dal (Secular) member M Srinivas’s allegations, which said payments had been made [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) plan to include Electronics City under its jurisdiction, to raise more money, has angered the companies and their employees in the E-City. It is currently maintained by Electronic City Association, which is the best industrial estate of India and the pride of Bangalore. The association gets the cost of maintenance [...] Continue Reading »
West Bengal commerce & industries minister Partha Chatterjee has announced that work on the steel project at Salboni in West Bengal proposed by Mr Sajjan Jindal-controlled JSW Steel Ltd will restart from August. The state government is planning to sign a lease agreement with JSW. The government will ask the company to submit a fresh [...] Continue Reading »
Various Citizen Groups and transport experts have urged the government and local bodies to take interest in the proposed commuter rail service. In a discussion held among the citizen groups it was decided to make the local bodies a part of the discussion so that the project can be implemented soon. The proposal is to [...] Continue Reading »
In the light of recent studies revealing that almost a third of groundwater aquifers are semi-critical, critical and over-exploited and 60 per cent of the groundwater blocks could turn critical by 2025, the government has come up with plans to change groundwater management rules. The government aims to pass a framework law under Article 252 [...] Continue Reading »
The Punjab and Haryana high court order barring developers from using ground water continues to draw sharp reaction from developers. The developers blamed the government stating that in spite of collecting external development charges (EDC) and infrastructure development charges (IDC) from them, the government has put them in a precarious situation. They argued that Haryana [...] Continue Reading »
In an event bearing political implications, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) activists on Tuesday staged a dharna in front of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) office against auction of plots. The activists alleged that thousands of acres of government land were either auctioned or handed over to various firms and individuals by the state government [...] Continue Reading »
The government has given more time to 33 special economic zone developers, including Uttam Galva Steels Ltd, Unitech Infracon and GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd, to execute their projects. The Board of Approval (BoA), a 19 member inter-ministerial body that deals with SEZs, at a meeting headed by Commerce Secretary, also allowed three SEZ developers [...] Continue Reading »
Raising the concerns regarding safety of public health, the Andhra Pradesh government has not yet relocated the hazardous industries from Bholakpur in Musheerabad. The AP State Human Rights Commission had directed the authorities to shift the industrial units, particularly those dealing in the animal skin business, plastic and scrap outside city limits after the May [...] Continue Reading »
Punjab is all set to become the first state in the country to start online registration of property and land records. Pilot projects have been undertaken in two districts. The revenue department will soon implement online registration of property and land and Mohali would be the first district in which this project would be implemented [...] Continue Reading »
