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Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is bent on amending its building rules to regularize minor deviations by the middle class. The civic body plans to amend its rules in case of violations like additional constructions or renovations to the houses. The move comes in spite of a Calcutta high court order restricting KMC from legalizing unauthorized [...] Continue Reading »
The roots of the trees in Kolkata is mercilessly being chopped by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) private contractors. The residents of apartments in Kolkata were left shell-shocked when they noticed 20 feet trees being axed down mercilessly. Meanwhile, none of the shop persons were even bothered to stop or protest the tree being pulled [...] Continue Reading »
Cellphone towers have been all around in the Kolkata city and to top it all, some of them are illegal! Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has not taken any care in recent times about the health hazards due to electromagnetic radiation emitted by the towers and also illegal building rules and loss of finance due to [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata is soon going to sight a new look of its garbage disposal system. In coming March, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has promised no overflowing of garbage from the bins. The civic body has taken initiative of replacing the earlier larger vessels into smaller movable compactors. These improved bins will be bought by Kolkata Environment [...] Continue Reading »
Salt lake residents have a reason to make merry! The residents were earlier worried over Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) of not providing the property tax waiver scheme for the ward. However, the state government has been working on the scheme and very soon will be launched for the Bidhannagar Municipality. The scheme has not been [...] Continue Reading »
A sign of relief for property tax payers within a month. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has finalised the much awaited property tax waiver scheme to be on February 1, 2012. The civic body has worked day and night to prepare the list of big tax defaulters of the city. A target of around Rs 500 [...] Continue Reading »
Political and revenue tough decisions have been changed frequently resulting in the high rise in water tax in Kolkata. Mamta Banerjee has been around handling issues against water tax since the time Subrata Mukherjee was a mayor in the year 2000. The fact lies on the other side that Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been secretly [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is ahead in giving a new look to its city. All the roads now have median strips dividing the lanes, beautified with colorful saplings. Decorating these medians has been the biggest city beautification drive by the prevailing KMC board. After a success in the pilot project, there are now plans to [...] Continue Reading »
