municipal corporations
A complaint was filed in the Bombay high court by a Thane resident claiming that two civic bodies had authorized cluster redevelopment in their areas without doing any impact evaluation study of the scheme. On March 19 hearing will be done on the PIL filed by Dattatray Daund. Daund alleged that impact assessment study should [...] Continue Reading »
On Tuesday, the city government and municipal bodies were stopped by High Court from changing the land use of any road in Delhi without its approval. Commenting on the Court’s order, Justice Manmohan questioned the Government and the three Municipal Corporations to seek a judicial order in a pending petition in the HC on this [...] Continue Reading »
The state government continues to follow the J&K Development Act-1970, which has an outdated land acquisition provisions, although the population of Jammu city is expected to touch 19 lakh in 2021. The government has also confessed that the failure of Municipal Corporations, Urban Development Department and other agencies to match with rapidly growing demands of [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai: In order to control unauthorised constructions in the state, following the appalling building collapse in Mumbra, Thane, the state government has planned to appoint special officers at the municipal corporations. The Minister for State for Housing, Sachin Ahir, stated that the government has decided that an officer will be appointed for each ward who [...] 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 »
The municipal corporations are finding it difficult to check structural safety of buildings as only less than 5% of property owners applying for completion certificates. The civic agencies are planning to convince the people of the country to incur the completion certificate. S.S. Yadav, commissioner, East Delhi Municipal Corporation said that in Hyderabad the owners [...] Continue Reading »
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) commissioner R A Rajeev has offered a 5% property tax reduction to housing societies who reduce their waste by more than 50% and recycle the waste generated in their compounds. More than 700 plus metric tonnes of waste is generated every day and dumped into the private landfills or illegally burnt [...] Continue Reading »
After issuing the notification for regularisation of 895 unauthorised colonies, the Delhi government has now asked the city’s municipal corporations to clear the layout plans for these colonies. The layout plan includes boundaries of the unauthorised colonies and it is to be drawn in consultation with the resident welfare associations(RWA). The layout plans are to [...] Continue Reading »
Property tax for the commercial properties located within a radius of one kilometres from a Metro line may soon see a hike, however residential properties will be spared from the hike. All five-star and three-star hotels, private hospitals and industrial areas in the city will also be brought under the same tax net. Leaders of [...] Continue Reading »
Team Anna members is soon going to have a rally in Lucknow. This rally will oppose paying tax to municipal corporations who do not provide proper basic amenities. As the polls are nearing in UP, the team sense that this threat can work for getting civic amenities like clean drains, good roads and drinking water [...] Continue Reading »
