Municipal Commissioner
Many new residential and commercial buildings are coming up in Wakad, Moshi, Ravet, Chikhli and Pimple Nilakh and due to this increase in the realty activity, the civic body earned Rs 335 crore in 2013-14, which is the highest collection so far. Mr. Ayubkhan Pathan, chief of the building permission department, says that more approvals [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC has requested chief electoral officer to appoint a contractor to demolish 35 floors across seven buildings in Worli’s Campa Cola society. The residents have been told by the Supreme Court last November to vacate the flats by May 31 to allow the BMC to demolish the illegal flats. Additional municipal commissioner Mohan Adtani [...] Continue Reading »
Mr. Sitaram Kunte, municipal commissioner, of the BMC has given time till 10 April to issue the notices for structural tests to over 18,000 buildings that are more than 30 years old. It is compulsory for the societies to organize a non destructive test before the submission of the structural audit report to the BMC. [...] Continue Reading »
A latest order by BMC spell trouble for the Breach Candy tower built on a one-acre plot by the Singhanias of Raymond. A report prepared by municipal commissioner Sitaram Kunte says that the so much concession approved to the developers is responsible for huge construction. The report also says that the construction area is more [...] Continue Reading »
Taking into account the recurrent problem of illegal constructions and violations in zoning regulations and building bylaws within the limits of Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), the state government has decided to levy a ‘composition fee’ for all the illegal constructions and variations from the sanctioned building plans. As per the officials, this is meant [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation (MC) and the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Department are engaged in a serious blame game over the 178 high-rise buildings that have been constructed in the city and its peripheries located in the seismic zone V. Many of the buildings have hostels in the top floors making it really difficult to [...] Continue Reading »
In a bid to keep the builders on toes and shift the onus of structural stability of a building on developers, Sitaram Kunte, the Municipal Commissioner has made building proposal approvals more stringent. In addition to other things that builders need to factor in , they will now have to ensure that precautionary measures are [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government seem not to be bothered about the issue of illegal buildings as no measures have been taken to implement a March 2009 order to set up special civic police stations and special courts across 22 municipal corporations to regulate unauthorized construction. Over 70 people lost their lives in a recent incident [...] Continue Reading »
Ghaziabad- It was earlier planned that Delhi Metro will be extended from Delhi’s Dilshad Garden to New Bus Stand. But now since the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam is unwilling to fund the project, controversy has begun. The municipal commissioner has sought help of the Uttar Pradesh government’s permission to overrule the board and allow to proceed with [...] Continue Reading »
Rajkot- Property tax payment has now become more stringent and no one can escape the payment. One of the first cities to have a unique property identification number for the property tax payment for commercial, institutional and residential units is Rajkot. Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) will now have a unique identification number for all the owners using [...] Continue Reading »
