Civic drive throws up 1,700 mosquito breeding spots
Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:00
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The Times of India 14.05.2017 Civic drive throws up 1,700 mosquito breeding spotsTNN | May 14, 2017, 11.01 PM IST
Navi Mumbai: With many residents not adhering to the health department guidelines for preventing of breeding of mosquitoes in their houses, NMMC has started a drive to located breeding spots within households.
"This is a regular activity of the health department before the onset
of the monsoons, in which residential areas are inspected for mosquito
larvae. Breeding spots are removed and the residents are made aware
about the measures to be adopted for curbing malaria and dengue," said
the in-charge of malaria department Dr Ujwala Oturkar.
The drive, which started from April 1 and has been extended till May
15, will have health workers visiting 3,37,008 houses. Until May 9, each
of these houses were checked for breeding in tanks, drums, lofts and
flower pots.
Of the 6,24,152 spots inspected, officials found larvae of aedes,
anopheles and culux mosquitoes in 1,711 places. The number of breeding
spots was found to be more than last year's count of 1,514.
"The findings show residents were not following guidelines. In the
past four years, there has been a dip in dengue and malaria cases, but
residents need to be cautious as dengue mosquitoes breed in fresh
water," said a health department official.
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PCMC asks residents of ‘dangerous’ bldgs to vacate
Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:00
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The Times of India 14.05.2017 PCMC asks residents of ‘dangerous’ bldgs to vacateUmesh K Parida | TNN | May 14, 2017, 11.00 PM IST
Navi Mumbai: The PCMC had asked citizens living in 'dangerous buildings' to vacate before the monsoon kicks in.
The residents have been served with a public notice to either vacate or repair the dilapidated buildings.
PCMC has also asked Cidco to inform the residents as a major part of
the newly formed civic body is still handled by the town planning
authority which also has data on the number of buildings.
PCMC engineer S B Katekar said, "The civic body in a public notice have asked the residents to vacate their dangerous buildings ahead of the monsoon. They have been asked to repair their houses too."
As per PCMC data, 37 buildings or houses were dangerous. "Most of them
have either been vacated or redeveloped. However, the remaining number
of buildings have to be checked,"Katekar added.
Cidco possibly has the count of buildings that fall in the dangerous category, the engineer said.
"PCMC has issued notices and given advertisements in local newspapers
without doing a structural audit. They have not even prepared a
technical report for issuing these notices," a city resident, R Ingole,
said.
Some of the old buildings include the abandoned sub-divisional office
in Line Ali area of Panvel. A few other buildings are located near Swami
Nityanand Marg, Panvel.
"Many children play in the open area of the sub divisional office.
This building had also housed many offices," a Panvel resident, Rakesh
Thakur, said.
In the absence of Cidco records, PCMC cannot declare buildings in
Cidco nodes as dangerous. Further, the grampanchayats do not keep record
of such buildings or houses that are dilapidated and dangerous.
BBMP collects Rs 587 crore in property tax; glitches remain
Friday, 12 May 2017 10:18
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The Times of India 12.05.2017 BBMP collects Rs 587 crore in property tax; glitches remain
BENGALURU: Although it's been more than five weeks since the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
(BBMP) started collecting property tax - both via online portals and
offline payments - some of the technical glitches that have hampered the
process are yet to be completely resolved. Property owners are eager to
pay their tax before May 31, the extended deadline announced by the BBMP'for availing of a 5% concession in the tax amount. Frustrated citizens have taken to airing their grievances with the BBMP's process on online public forums.
Raghavendra Kumar (name changed), a resident of Mysuru who owns
property in the city, said that the online payment portal had not made
the process any easier. "I was very happy that I would be able to pay my
tax sitting in Mysuru this year. Last year, I received the challan from
the BBMP office, and paid the specified sum. But, every time I have
tried to make an online payment in the past two weeks, I have received
an error message stating, 'previous payment invalid'. When I paid the
amount specified in the challan generated by the system last year, how
is that possible?" he asked. After an unsuccessful attempt at
registering a complaint with the BBMP's customer care cell, Raghavendra
was asked to wait till the glitches were fixed. "The worst case scenario
is that I will have to come to Bengaluru and pay the sum in person," he
added.
Kumar's is not an isolated case. Errors in the system have resulted in
payments being rejected. However, in the absence of a proper refund
policy, many owners are still awaiting reimbursement. Nagarajan K, who
owns a property on Sarjapur Road, said, "I was able to pay the tax in my
second attempt when I used netbanking. But I have not been reimbursed
after my first attempt through Payumoney, an e-wallet, failed."
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