Karnataka
Is the water you consume daily fit for drinking? Every human needs at least one or two litres of safe drinking water every day! Many of us assume that the water we get from taps and shallow or deep bore wells are fit for drinking. Which has been proved incorrect unfortunately! This came into light only [...] Continue Reading »
Now, as installation of rainwater harvesting was already mandatory in Bangalore, other cities are also following suit. The state Legislative Assembly recently passed an amendment bill to make rainwater harvesting mandatory in all the cities of Karnataka. It was already mandatory in all Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) wards with the passing of Bangalore Water [...] Continue Reading »
The street dog menace in Bangalore city is increasing and the residents belonging to few areas are scared to even get out of their houses because of the increase in dog bites. Dog bites in Garden city is alarming! With the increasing complaints form residents of the city, the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission Chairman [...] Continue Reading »
The deadline for making the state pothole free was given as January 15, 2012 by the Chief Minister. However, BBMP indulged with its own activities is yet to act upon the notice. A large budget of about Rs 1,000 crore was sanctioned to work on the potholes roads. The count of potholes has been 47000 [...] Continue Reading »
The slum dwellers in Karnataka have a reason to be happy! The state cabinet have agreed to give land deed titles to the slum dwellers. The motive is to make it a slum free state and to provide basic level infrastructure to the residents. There are in total of 40 lakh population in slum areas [...] Continue Reading »
Karnataka state alone has spent around Rs 3,847 crore to buy power since 2010! This is a huge sum where the state could have built a brand-new 800-1,000MW thermal plant utilizing the same budget. Again summer is back and the state is planning ahead and the cabinet has decided to buy 1,290MW daily upto the [...] Continue Reading »
Koyambedu is soon going to get a tertiary sewage treatment plant to get rid all the garbage menace. Metrowater has taken up the initiative to set the plant on a two-acre land in the same sewage treatment plant premises. This will help in reducing the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in the waste for a better [...] Continue Reading »
Property buyers in Karnataka can now breathe a sigh of relief because of the Confederation on Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI). The state based CREDAI has initiated a phase called Mission Transparency which will bring in more speed and accuracy in the sector. The body’s main motive was to join hands with the [...] Continue Reading »
Now there would not be a single case of land titles, at least from now onwards in Karnataka. The state will be the first one in the country to guarantee land titles. There have been many previous cases of illegal land titles. To resolve this, the land titles will be issued under the Urban Property [...] Continue Reading »
Odisha government is all set to pave in a new law to keep a check on the illegal encroachments of land in the state. The new law will be similar as per the laws issued in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Land encroachment has been noticed in all the major districts of the [...] Continue Reading »
