Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s Fire and Emergency Services Department has identified 78 more coaching classes operating without mandatory fire safety measures, expanding its ongoing crackdown launched in the wake of last month’s fatal blaze at a coaching institute in Lucknow.The latest inspections, carried out across the jurisdictions of all 12 fire stations, uncovered widespread…
Second Live Cable Exposed At Taj Nagar Nagpur: Barely days after the electrocution of 60-year-old Afroz Begum in Auliya Nagar exposed glaring safety lapses in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) Amrut 2.0 sewerage project, another damaged underground power cable has surfaced at a nearby worksite, intensifying allegations of poor supervision by the Public Health Engineering…
Flaws in sewer put PHE on dock Nagpur: The public health engineering (PHE) department of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has landed in another controversy, with allegations of gross negligence in execution and supervision of an Rs11 crore sewer trunk line project forcing the Chief Minister’s Office to intervene.The latest controversy comes at a time when…
Nagpur: Alarmed over the growing impact of illegally operated private buses on the city’s Aapli Bus, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Saturday directed transport authorities and police to launch a coordinated crackdown on contract carriage buses violating permit conditions.The decision was taken at a meeting convened by the NMC transport department and chaired by mayor…
Nagpur: In a startling allegation against the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), Standing Committee chairperson Shivani Dani-Wakhare on Friday claimed that some civic engineers accept money to avoid visiting project sites, raising serious questions over supervision of public works and accountability within the civic administration.Addressing reporters after the Standing Committee meeting, Dani said she has directed…
Nagpur: Even as civic officials routinely defend poor-quality roads and repeated repairs by blaming contractors, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) continues to approve public works contracts awarded at dramatically lower-than-estimated rates. The trend is reviving concerns over whether such steep below-estimate bids are financially sustainable without compromising quality.The agenda for the July 10 standing committee…
Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has proposed to prepay the balance Rs14.77 crore loan taken for the AMRUT water supply project to improve its credit rating before raising Rs600 crore for two major river pollution abatement projects.The proposal will come up before the Standing Committee meeting chaired by chairperson Shivani Dani Wakhare on Friday.As…
Nagpur: With the BRICS transport ministers’ meeting beginning on Thursday, authorities have launched a frantic citywide facelift, fixing potholes, repairing streetlights, repainting dividers, washing statues and clearing stretches ignored for months. It’s deja vu for citizens who saw the same drill ahead of the C20 Summit Nagpur hosted 3 years ago.Over past few days, civic…
Nagpur: Even though no new taxes or increase in existing taxes were announced in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation standing committee’s budget presented on June 27, a proposal to increase property tax by 10% has been placed on agenda for the committee’s first meeting after the budget presentation, to be held on July 10.According to the…
Nagpur: A seven-day delay in initiating action against the Gujarat-based contractor held responsible for a woman’s electrocution in Auliya Nagar has drawn sharp criticism from the Opposition in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).Leader of Opposition and local corporator Sanjay Mahakalkar alleged that the contractor was being shielded by NMC brass despite a departmental inquiry blaming…
