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Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation plans welcome boards at joint capital borders
Monday, 09 December 2013 12:07
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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.
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Educated evading taxes: Mayor
Monday, 09 December 2013 09:44
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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
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
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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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GHMC to install welcome gates
Monday, 09 December 2013 05:02
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The Hindu 09.12.2013 GHMC to install welcome gatesStaff Reporter The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is
planning to install 14 welcome gates disclosing the GHMC border with an
estimated cost of Rs. 1 crore per each gate. These
gates will be established on NH-7 Kurnool Road, Srisailam road, Sagar
road, Vijayawada road, Uppal - Warangal road, Keesara road, Dammaiguda
crossroads, Alwal - Rajeev Rahadari, NH7 - Medchal - Kompally Road,
Jeedimetla - Narsapur road, Ramchandrapuram - Patancheru road, Express
Way- Nanakramguda road, Osmansagar Road and Himayathsagar road. These
gates will have signage indicating commencement of GHMC border and
thematic information on shoulders, indicating city’s importance and
significance, said a press release.
Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation puts up fences to save green cover in Digha
Saturday, 07 December 2013 09:42
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The Times of India 07.12.2013 Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation puts up fences to save green cover in Digha
NAVI MUMBAI: The civic body has approved the erecting of fences to ward off encroachment around the green patch on the 1km-strecth from Digha junction to Mukand bus stop.
The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) had received complaints that slum dwellers have been cutting down trees and hanging their clothes at the green patch on the dividers. The civic body had repeatedly asked the slum dwellers to not uproot saplings and cut trees to make space, but to no avail.
TOI had reported last week that the civic body had made huge investments to plant ornamental trees on the dividers as part of its beautification drive.
"Slum dwellers have made this particular patch ugly by hanging clothes on the shrubs planted on road dividers," said an NMMC official. "Except for this portion, we have been successful in maintaining green cover all along the 15-km Thane-Belapur road," he said.
The official added that since both the sides of the road are densely populated with slums, it was a problem that was bound to occur.
"Fencing was the best option to prevent errant dwellers to hang clothes on the dividers, so we asked for funds to erect them," he added.
The civic officials had pitched the idea of a fence a month ago but the "seniors delayed the project".
The fencing will take a week to complete, after which the civic body gardeners will replant saplings that have been uprooted. Digha: Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation's (NMMC) garden department and engineering wing in-charge of maintaining beautification of Thane Belapur freeway finally made budgetary provision to save the green patch spreading over a kilometer from Digha junction to Mukand bus stop. The stretch has apparently lost its green cover, owing to rampant encroachment of local dwellers who had been using the trees for drying clothes. The civic body had splurged huge money in creating the green zone, but in vein. Thanks to dwellers nearby who did not even spare the saplings.
On TOI report published a few weeks ago about rampant destruction of ornamental trees and green stretch along the road dividers at Sathe Nagar and Ram Nagar near Digha on Thane Belapur corridor, civic body swung into action to put up fencing to thwart local slum dwellers from encroaching trees for drying clothes. NMMC has started work on erecting steel fencing on the dividers to get rid of the social disorder when it failed to change the mindset of people here after a round of interaction with the locals.
"Slum dwellers painted this particular patch ugly with clothes covering green patches on road dividers. Except for this portion of road dividers we have been successful in keeping developing and maintaining the green cover all along the 15-km TB road. Both the sides of the road here are densely populated with slums. Saplings and grown up trees have been victimized s the dwellers turned this into barren land. We took serious note of this issue and appropriated a budget to fence the area," said an official.
NMMC's green city initiative to beautify the road dividers with ornamental plants had faced a major setback near this slum pockets which will now retain the greenery. "Fencing was the best option to prevent errant dwellers on the dividers. After the work is completed in a week's time we will replant the barren portion and depute gardners here to guard and maintain its green cover. Proper maintenance mechanism will put in place," said an official.
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