Mumbai
According to a survey by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, there were more than 1,000 unauthorized towers in the city at last count.High-power committee examining health hazards lays down ground rules for installation of cell towers. The panel, set up earlier this year to examine health hazards caused by mobile towers, has in its report said [...] Continue Reading »
Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal has said that builders should play a more pro-active role in developing green building such as developing facilities for recycling of water, rainwater harvesting, sewage treatment as this will help reduce the load on Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), in return, the PMC offers a 10% reduction in property tax that will make [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is maintaining an e-database of all the Ganesh mandals to simplify the permission procedure.The e-database includes name of the mandal, location, size and permission period among other details. Electronic database of the Ganesh mandals simplifies the permission procedure and helps to book those mandals that flout norms. The Ganesh festival begins [...] Continue Reading »
Navi Mumbai’s senior citizens are planning to organize a mass protest on August 16. Dr. SP Kinjawadekar, ‘All India Senior Citizens Association‘ president and resident of Nerul regretted the ‘cold response’ of Central as well as State governments in solving problems of senior citizens. The mass protest will be held at Azad Maidan, CST, Mumbai [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay High Court has granted an interim stay on service tax levied by the Union Government on buildings under construction. The interim stay was granted by Justice V C Daga and Justice S J Kathawala, who admitted a petition filed by Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI). The MCHI challenged the constitutional validity of [...] Continue Reading »
After recent media reports claimed that malaria is now also affecting heart and is causing strokes in patients with no history of heart ailments, guardian ministers Naseem Khan (suburbs) and Jayant Patil (island city) held meetings to review the situation and Khan directed the civic body to carry out precautionary measures to curb malaria which [...] Continue Reading »
According to the source, a service provider can erect a tower only after obtaining a structural stability certificate from a certified architect as well as a no objection certificate from the housing society where the tower is supposed to come up. “We are making changes in the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning (MRTP) Act to [...] Continue Reading »
Home loan seekers can access their credit information details from the Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd (CIBIL). Credit Information Reports (CIRs) of CIBIL have become an important tool for banks and housing finance companies. They provide vital information on the credit history of applicants. A home loan application was liable to be rejected on account [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra State Consumer Commission recently directed a developer to shell out Rs 20 lakh at the rate of Rs 2,000 a day for a delay in giving possession of a shop premises to a purchaser. The purchaser Dharshi Dedhia was a tenant who a possessed a shop & godown in Rajhans building in Thane [...] Continue Reading »
