Mumbai: After adopting various measures to save water, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) now wants to improve the quality of water supplied to Mumbaikars. The BMC plans to map, inspect, repair and replace, wherever necessary, the sanitary sewers in the island city.
Mumbai: While campaigning for the recent assembly elections chief minister Ashok Chavan had promised legal water supply for non-notified slums built before 2000. What Chavan did not know is that many of these slums already have legal water supply connections.
The Maharashtra government has proposed to enact a law jailing manufacturers and even stockists of thin plastic bags in a bid to prevent them from clogging up sewage networks.
Three months after the state government released funds worth Rs 800 crore for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for Commonwealth Games-related projects, the cash-strapped civic agency is set to receive additional funds worth Rs 1,000 crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
Delhiites welcome MCD's new billboard campaign to teach city civic sense
In an attempt to persuade Delhiites cultivate good sanitation habits and create civic awareness ahead of the Commonwealth Games, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has come up with a sanitation drive, but with a difference.
The high court on Thursday directed four traders, who claimed to have purchased a part of the East Calcutta Wetlands from the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), to hand the plots back to the civic body by February 15.
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had plans to curb the plastic bags menace that date back to 2008. The civic body had asked the state government to make a provision for stringent action to discourage the manufacturing and circulation of plastic bags.
The Delhi government today asked the MCD to help in making Delhi a world-class city and develop dumping ground and create more zones for door-to-door solid waste collection.
Finance minister A. K. Walia warned the MCD that no garbage should be visible on roads, as a large number of visitors would be here during the Commonwealth Games.
