Standing Committee chairperson Prabhakar Shinde also defended the proposal Mumbai: BMC’s proposal to replace Mahindra Scorpio-N SUVs with six new Toyota Innova Crysta vehicles for key political office-bearers led to a heated political slugfest at Thursday’s standing committee meeting, with the opposition questioning the expenditure and the ruling BJP accusing it of backtracking on a…
A street in the Azad Nagar area of the city Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Saturday announced a Rs 147 crore property tax and user-charge relief package covering 3.54 lakh residential and commercial properties. The move aims to ease the financial burden on residents and businesses as recovery efforts after recent flooding continue.The…
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is set to prepare a 30-year master plan (up to 2057) for the city’s drainage and stormwater network. It proposed appointing IIT Gandhinagar for the exercise at a cost of Rs 8 crore. The proposal will be placed before the standing committee for approval at its meeting on Wednesday.According…
The civic body had taken up special strengthening and restoration of the 1892 British-era bridge on Sep 11, 2024 Ahmedabad: The extended deadline to restore Ellis Bridge expired in March, but the strengthening work on the city’s oldest bridge remains incomplete. The AMC is now likely to grant the contractor yet another extension, even as…
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: 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…
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) standing committee on Thursday approved a proposal worth more than Rs 10.5 crore to purchase 20 new water tankers and manage their operation and maintenance for five years to water trees planted across the city. The civic body sanctioned Rs 5.5 crore for procuring the tankers and another Rs…
Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh DGP Rajeev Krishna on Sunday said that the special investigation team was formed to probe into the allegations of irregularities in the Ram temple donation funds on the request of the Temple Trust.Talking to reporters after chairing a meeting of the standing committee on Kashi Vishwanath Gyanvapi in Varanasi, the DGP said,…
The flyover was scheduled to be completed by July 2026. The new project completion deadline is June 2027 Ahmedabad: The completion deadline for the Naroda Patiya flyover – to be the city’s longest at 2.5km – has once again been extended. Scheduled to be completed by July this year, the project will continue till June…
Panaji: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) held a standing committee meeting where councillors and CCP officials reviewed ongoing infrastructure projects, public services, environmental preparedness and heritage conservation.“With the monsoon season under way, significant attention was given to preparedness measures, including the ongoing maintenance of drains and water channels, public infrastructure, and efforts…
