New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Monday announced that special underground dustbins will be installed in the city to do away with dhalaos before Commonwealth Games 2010. MCD plans to install 67 such dustbins in phase-I. The civic body will spend Rs 3.25 crore on each dustbin and the task of installing them has been given to a company from Finland.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided shift all garbage dumps in the city underground. The move comes in view of beautification of the Capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
Officials feel this will also ensure hygienic garbage collection.
MUMBAI: In a bid to bring about greater transparency in the utilisation of funds allotted for urban development projects, the civic body will video-tape its under construction buildings and post it on its portal. Agencies will soon be appointed for the video-shoots.
THANE: The remaining green cover in the city may soon vanish completely under the growing jungle of concrete, thanks to the inability of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to preserve the trees.
The civic authorities on Tuesday deferred the planned two-day drive to free the city markets of banned plastic bags under pressure from traders.
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation had declared last week that officials would visit markets on Tuesday and Wednesday and slap fines on traders and customers found using plastic bags thinner than 40 microns.
Jammu : Deputy chairman of the Legislative Council, Arvinder Singh Micky has asked the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) to strictly enforce ban on polythene in the city and involve the public in creating a mass movement against the use of polythene.
Chairing a meeting of the Jammu Development Authority (JDA), JMC and
LUCKNOW: As part of celebrations on completion of Dinesh Sharma's three years as mayor of Lucknow, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) organised a cleanliness drive on Sunday.
Cyclone Phyan may have spared the city, but the downpour it caused didn't. The unexpected showers have made the civic health authorities worried about a fresh spurt in cases of malaria, which, they say, is now bound to rear its head in the city again.
