Residents
In order to facilitate 24-hour surveillance, residents of TVS Colony and Officer’s Colony in Anna Nagar Western Extension have collectively collected Rs 10 lakh from their own pockets to set up 14 CCTV cameras. The surveillance system consists of eight hi-focus speed dome cameras and six fixed cameras covering a radius of three kilometres around [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) began re-carpeting of Gurgaon city roads after rains had caused waterlogging and potholes on the city roads. The impact of rains on the city roads, including those carpeted a couple of months ago, has been highlighted in the press and the authority has promptly reacted to the matter. The [...] Continue Reading »
Gurgaon Citizens Council (GCC) held a meeting on Sunday. The main orientation of the meeting was to discuss the issue of bringing private areas under the purview of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG). Representatives from various Resident Welfare Associations (RWA) demanded a democratically elected municipality to ensure transparency in governance and better management of civic [...] Continue Reading »
Residents and industry owners in Ghaziabad have forwarded their suggestions to the authorities on the proposed redevelopment of national highways passing through the area. The Ghaziabad Residents’ Welfare Association Federation and the Ghaziabad Industries Federation have submitted their suggestions on environment and infrastructure of the highway in a meeting attended by National Highways Authority of [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Koramangala say that the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) manipulated tenders to favour contractors and floated tenders to move trees after they were already moved. Between May 26 and 27, the BDA cut over 34 trees along Sarjapur Road for the signal-free corridor extending from Sirsi Circle to Agara Junction and passing through Koramangala, [...] Continue Reading »
In order to improve garbage collection, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to start a second shift. The BBMP council passed a resolution to hike the tender amount for garbage contractors by 20 per cent. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy pointed out irregularities among garbage contractors as many of them claim bills without cleaning [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of east Delhi have protested against power supplier BSES Yamunadue to long power outages in their areas. Residents are worried due to frequent power cuts in the Mayur Vihar Phase III, Vasundhara and Kondli areas. Residents said power supply was cut from Friday 10pm to Sunday morning, and then again on Sunday night in [...] Continue Reading »
Residents across Chennai have been complaining about sewage overflow for the last few months. However, the civic bodies are yet to take up any action to address the issue. Residents of Sixth Street, R.V.Nagar, Anna Nagar, have been putting up with stench, flies and sewage on the road. Sewage has been overflowing from manholes in [...] Continue Reading »
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) had released the draft master plan for the extended area of Hyderabad Metropolitan Region on July 22, 2011. Then they invited objections and suggestions on the draft master plan from citizens. A year has gone by, and the authority has not even finalized the applications which have to be [...] Continue Reading »
In a case involving residents caught between the civic body and the builder, the residents of Green Heritage society at Kharghar in Navi Mumbai were in shock as portion of their society has been ordered to be demolished by the civic authorities. The authorities have issued notice to vacate the premises to facilitate the demolition [...] Continue Reading »
