Tag: #BMC

BMC resumes infrastructure work amid lockdown, explains as the pre-monsoon measures.

April 10, 2020

Despite the lockdown, BMC has begun pre-monsoon road-resurfacing, desilting and bridge-building work to prevent accidents, flooding, water-logging and rainfall diseases — it has a little over a month and a half to complete the job. On 6 April, BMC resumed 112 works on roads, bridges and stormwater drains (including desilting) with 2,500 labourers. Additional Municipal […]

BMC resumes infrastructure work amid lockdown, explains as the pre-monsoon measures.more

COVID-19: BMC prepares 20 additional hospitals in Mumbai along with quarantine wards.

April 9, 2020

The coronavirus is Spreading like wildfire, the amount of people in Mumbai testing positive for COVID-19 is rising constantly. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has prepared, with this rise, 20 more hospitals with doctors and nurses at standby. “Two, 140-bed hospitals in Vikhroli and Ghatkopar have been equipped with different entry gates and quarantine wards. In […]

COVID-19: BMC prepares 20 additional hospitals in Mumbai along with quarantine wards.more

BMC Commissioner seeks to provide temporary shelters for the homeless labourers.

March 31, 2020

BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi has instructed building proposals department officials to locate recently built unoccupied buildings in their regions so that they can act as temporary shelters for homeless labourers and other emergencies. Civic officials said there were several such buildings in the city, so it was necessary to use the first few floors of […]

BMC Commissioner seeks to provide temporary shelters for the homeless labourers.more

BMC expects to receive Rs 600 crore through the Vacant Land Tenancy (VLT) scheme.

March 13, 2020

The civic general body approved a vacant land tenancy scheme (VLT) on Wednesday in a view to boosting revenue. The BMC plans to receive Rs 500-600 crore one-time revenue from 213 plots, covering more than 125 sq ft, which will be leased at 62.5% of ready reckoner rates. These involve gymkhanas, cricket fields, community centres and godowns […]

BMC expects to receive Rs 600 crore through the Vacant Land Tenancy (VLT) scheme.more

BMC intends to retrieve Rs 10 crore tax from Nirav Modi’s properties.

March 6, 2020

In a desperate bid to recover Rs 9.42 crore, owed by alleged economic offender Nirav Modi as property tax, the BMC has written to the Enforcement Directorate seeking to be paid as soon as the agency auctions the three commercial properties of the elusive diamantaire. A senior civic official said BMC has the first claim […]

BMC intends to retrieve Rs 10 crore tax from Nirav Modi’s properties.more

High Court orders demolition of illegal building, following a resident’s complaint.

January 25, 2020

A professional in service management shows the way for citizens forced to live in illegal buildings. Jaswinder Bansal not only refused to allow the ageing parents to inhabit their redeveloped apartment, constructed in a completely illegal building but also filed a lawsuit in the High Court of Bombay against the builders and the BMC. On […]

High Court orders demolition of illegal building, following a resident’s complaint.more

Developers are avoiding redevelopment projects – proposals down by 50% in the past year.

January 20, 2020

Redevelopment of housing societies, once a capital spin-off for most of the builders in Mumbai, has almost ended. In addition to a sluggish real estate market, developers say projects such as these, which earlier gained huge revenues, are no longer profitable because of the BMC’s high premiums and construction expenses. Throughout the city, developers have […]

Developers are avoiding redevelopment projects – proposals down by 50% in the past year.more

Wadala Chawl residents ask BMC to forfeit redevelopment agreement with East & West Developers.

November 20, 2019

Residents of Azad Nagar chawls in Wadala, in violation of the Bombay High Court ruling in March 2019, wrote to Municipal Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi to terminate the development agreement with East & West Developers, a part of RNA Group, for failing to pay transit rent to 324 residents. On 1 September at the project location […]

Wadala Chawl residents ask BMC to forfeit redevelopment agreement with East & West Developers.more

Government clears 25 structures, reduced travel time from 1hr 20mins to 10mins.

November 18, 2019

During rush hours, most motorists used to take 1hr 20mins to clear Lower Parel railway station to the Doordarshan junction in Worli which is just 1.7kms. This is the chaos that Mumbaikars ended up walking to their destination because there was no way to find a taxi. Finally, on Saturday morning, the decades-old problem came […]

Government clears 25 structures, reduced travel time from 1hr 20mins to 10mins.more

Mumbai Officials claim to have achieved 70% of potholes complaint under Pothole Challenge 2019.

November 7, 2019

It was an exercise in public relations fraught with potential pitfalls. But the BMC seems to be sitting nicely at the end of the seven-day #PotholeChallenge2019—the corporations claim to have fixed nearly 70% of their complaints about potholes and also decide to call up all of their complainants and confirm that their concerns are dealt with ‘Satisfaction’. The […]

Mumbai Officials claim to have achieved 70% of potholes complaint under Pothole Challenge 2019.more