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Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation plans welcome boards at joint capital borders

Monday, 09 December 2013 12:07 administrator
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The Times of India               09.12.2013

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation plans welcome boards at joint capital borders

HYDERABAD: With the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) jurisdiction to be joint capital for the proposed state of Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh, the corporation has decided to erect welcome gates on the borders of Greater Hyderabad.

According to GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar, the welcome boards and other signages would be erected at 14 locations - Kurnool road on National Highway 7, Srisailam road, Sagar road, Vijayawada highway, Uppal-Warangal road, Keesara road, Dammaiguda crossroads, Alwal on Rajeev Rahadari, Medchal-Kompally NH road, Jeedimetla-Narsapur road, Ramchandrapuram-Patancheru road, Expressway- Nanakramguda road, Osmansagar road and Himayatsagar road.

GHMC officials said the limits have nine 200-feet wide roads and four 100-feet roads and the entry point would be either a gantry or portal frame across the road wherever possible with signage indicating commencement of GHMC limits. The entry points would be developed with footpaths for about one km inside the limits with dividers, landscaping, greenery up to one km, road markings and modern streetlighting in central median. Wherever gantry was not possible, butterfly cantilever structure in the central median and signages could be wall mounted with thematic on shoulder.

 

Educated evading taxes: Mayor

Monday, 09 December 2013 09:44 administrator
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Deccan Chronicle               09.12.2013

Educated evading taxes: Mayor

Biocon CMD and B.PAC president Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, secretary Jairaj, mayor Katte Satyanarayana and city police commissioner Raghavendra H. Auradkar at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan on Friday —DC
Biocon CMD and B.PAC president Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, secretary Jairaj, mayor Katte Satyanarayana and city police commissioner Raghavendra H. Auradkar at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan on Friday —DC

Bangalore: Less than 24 hours after high court rapped BBMP for its ‘uncivilised’manner of property collection, Mayor Katte Satyanarayana on Friday said the educated class figures prominently among tax defaulters. When the BBMP resort to a collection drive it hurts them, he said.

At the inaugural session of 'B.PAC Civic leadership Incubator Program (B.CLIP)'  he said that industries making a profit of Rs 5 crore and above have to pay two per cent of their profits to the local municipal body.

But IT-BT companies are paying all forms of taxes to the state government. If it is paid to the civic body, the BBMP would get Rs 250 crore, which can be utilised for development work, the Mayor said.

Although the BBMP jurisdiction houses over 16 lakh properties, less than 10 lakh property owners pay the tax and it has become tough to bring everyone under the tax net.

The BBMP revenue authorities are taking the help of technology to bring all the property owners under the tax net, he added.

 

BMC yet to get 100 Euro-IV garbage collection vehicles

Monday, 09 December 2013 05:29 administrator
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The Indian Express                09.12.2013

BMC yet to get 100 Euro-IV garbage collection vehicles

Even as the December 31 deadline for replacing all garbage compactors with Bharat Stage IV or Euro IV category vehicles in Mumbai approaches, over 100 such vehicles are yet to be acquired by the BMC. To plug the delays, the corporation has begun levying fines of Rs 50,000 per day on its garbage collection contractors.

Of the 988 vehicles required in Mumbai, the BMC has so far managed to add 875 to its fleet. These compactors are of varying capacities, ranging from a tonne to six tonnes. The corporation claims that it has acquired all 1-tonne vehicles, but is facing a shortage of 6-tonne and 2.5-tonne compactors.

"We are hoping to procure the vehicles by the end of the year. In the meantime, to offset the shortage, we are allowing the use of Euro III compactors in some parts of the city," Additional Municipal Commissioner Mohan Adtani said.

The areas affected by the delay include A (Fort, Nariman Point, Cuffe Parade), B (Dongri), C (Chandanwadi), H-East (Bandra, Khar east) and K-East and K-West (Andheri) wards.

 
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