urban development department
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is in dilemma over the implementation of its proposal to raise the property tax by 15%. In the BBMP council meeting, commissioner Siddaiah has proposed a hike in property tax, but the minister in charge, Ashoka has opposed the property tax hike proposal fearing the backlash of voters in the [...] Continue Reading »
Ahmedabad- Apart from Ahmedabad, other major cities have also given nod for higher FSI levels and changed design plans by the state urban development department (UDD). With affordable housing and transit oriented housing playing a key role in solving the housing issues, there has been a large scale redevelopment in major dilapidated areas in the city of Ahmadabad. With [...] Continue Reading »
If garbage menace and failing infrastructure in the city was not enough, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is all set to give another blow in the form of hike in property tax. It is said that BBMP Standing Committee on Tax and Finance has submitted a proposal to increase unit rates of property tax by [...] Continue Reading »
All through the year, the infrastructure development in the city by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) went very slow. However, the civic body should be given the credit of completing the task of preparing a Development Plan (DP) for the old city areas. For the pending works, the civic body and parties are blaming each other. [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- An RTI activist’s queries revealed that Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has to recover rental dues of over Rs 15 crore from the shops and office spaces it had leased out in its 15 shopping complexes in the city. Several media copies of documents obtained through RTI were released on Tuesday by the activist, BM [...] Continue Reading »
Its been two months since the Delhi Government has made an announcement concerning the permission to allow the sale and purchase of properties in 300 unauthorised colonies which were regularised along with other 538 settlements. On September 6, the Delhi Government had set a deadline of about one month in order to allow the purchase [...] Continue Reading »
A statement passed by the Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte, last month about the re-development of about 300 proposed heritage structures has created confusion among the civic bodies, i.e. the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) and the state government. It was said by the municipal commissioner that the re-development of the projects will continue uninterrupted due [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of cities and towns across Assam will be able to use their mobile phones to check their property taxes from next year onwards. Assam’s urban development department has decided to launch an e-governance project, under which the property tax collection system will be streamlined to bring in more transparency. The programme will include 89 [...] Continue Reading »
The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday sent a notice to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in a petition alleging irrational lease of public properties. Five Year Law Course Students’ Association, the petitioner, had approached the Court alleging that the Palike has leased out its property for a pittance. The petitioner had claimed that [...] Continue Reading »
The opposition leader MK Gunashekar has said that the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) budget for 2012-13 is highly unrealistic and many infrastructure projects planned for this year will not be executed in the BBMP council on Monday. Ruled by BJP, the BBMP has failed to maintain transparency in preparing the budget and the budget [...] Continue Reading »
