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Get your building permit in 4 days

Wednesday, 20 October 2010 11:15 administrator
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The New Indian Express  20.10.2010

Get your building permit in 4 days

HYDERABAD: GHMC will launch ‘Green Channel’ for the automatic approval of Building Permissions in its zonal offices and circle offices from tomorrow. Through this, the owners and builders will get permissions within four days after submission of the application.

The permit will be granted for building up to a limit of 1,000 sq mts area and a height upto 12 mtrs (3 floors) excluding the parking floors.  Applications will be scrutinised by the concerned town planning officials. After the approval of deputy commissioners/ zonal commissioners, the permission will be given.

The staff concerned will inspect the site within 15 days of issuing the permission and confirm the permission on file to the competent authority.

Permission granted will be cancelled if it is found to have been obtained through misrepresentation, falsifying facts or in any other way which is misleading to the GHMC. Penal action will also be initiated against such Licensed Technical Personnel.

Your right to know:

In case the staff fails to process the application and inspect the site within the given time frame, a penalty of `50 per day will be levied on the concerned staff as per Citizen Charter.

The deputy commissioners and zonal CPs are personally responsible to issue or reject the permission within four days. Rejection has to be given in a speaking endorsement with valid reasons.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 11:16
 

BDA's bid to make veggies cheaper

Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:34 administrator
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The New Indian Express  19.10.2010

BDA's bid to make veggies cheaper

BANGALORE: Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is planning to construct markets in 39 localities in the city where people can buy vegetables and groceries at wholesale rates.

The proposed markets would be built on public private partnership. Of the 39 localities, 10 have already been identified: Cambridge Layout, HSR Layout, HAL II Stage, Jnanabharathi Layout, Vidyaranyapura, BDA ward office, Kothanur, Banashankari VI Stage, Anjanapura Township and two sites at Sir M Visvesvaraya Layout. Of the remaining 29 sites, 10 are in Bangalore East, four in Bangalore West, four in Bangalore North and 11 in Bangalore South.

Around 20 per cent of the constructed area can be used for commercial purpose. According to BDA estimates, the private partner will have to spend `15,000 to construct every square metre. This takes the estimated cost of all the markets to around `107.13 crore. The BDA is planning to share the market with a private partner who is willing to give it the maximum area after constructing the market at its own cost. The BDA will fix the area that can be given to private players after assessing the market value of each site.

BDA Commissioner Bharat Lal Meena said all the projects were still in the tendering stages and thus it was difficult to say when they would be completed. He said detailed project reports and plans for each proposed market were yet to be prepared.

Concerned officials said the proposed markets were expected to reduce the heavy inflow of people to the crowded markets such as K R Market, Yeshwantpur market and others.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:35
 

‘Identify government land for dumpyards'

Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:41 administrator
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The Hindu  19.10.2010

‘Identify government land for dumpyards'

Special Correspondent


K. Rosaiah

HYDERABAD: District Collectors have been asked to identify government land for setting up dumping yards in urban local bodies where acquisition of private land has run into legal hurdles to give thrust to solid waste management projects.

Earlier government had given permission to 29 Urban Local Bodies for acquiring land from private persons for setting up dumping yards. But 10 of them which faced problems requested the Government for alternative arrangements.

Chief Minister K. Rosaiah held a meeting with Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy and officials here on Monday to review the status of solid waste management (SWM) to discuss the steps to be taken to reduce delays in setting up SWM projects.

Mr. Rosaiah said the government would institute awards to recognise local bodies that did well in waste management like Green Leaf, a voluntary organisation that started the concept.

He said that plastic covers not less than 40 microns should be allowed in municipalities in view of Supreme Court ban on plastic covers of 20 microns.

Later briefing reporters, Mr. Ramnarayan Reddy said that door-to-door collection of garbage, segregation, carting it to transfer centres and from there to dumping yards was being taken up in 74 urban local bodies thanks to awareness campaigns and involvement of Indira Kranthi Patham groups under Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas(MEMPA).

Andhra Pradesh stood fifth in the country in solid waste management and door-to-door collection of garbage went up from 50 per cent in 2005 to 92 per cent now in the municipalities and corporations. Government utilised 100 per cent fund sanctioned under 12 {+t} {+h} Finance Commission on solid waste management, he said.

He said all the 124 urban local bodies were grouped into 19 clusters for taking up projects to generate energy, manure from the waste with private participation.

Tenders were awarded to five companies in Nalgonda, Karimnagar, Kakinada, Chittoor and Chirala and the projects were under progress.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:43
 
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