NEW DELHI: Delhi Municipal Commissioner K. S. Mehra presented revised budget estimates for the current financial year and budget estimates for the next fiscal in respect of the general wing and slum and jhuggi-jhonpri wing of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Friday.
It is bad news for the residents of Bhanpur that they are under the grip of death. Hundreds of truck garbage dumped by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) spreading various diseases in the area, compelling them to die slowly.
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is soon going to do away with the old garbage trucks with its new garbage cleaning mechanism becoming fully operational from December 1.
The Municipal Corporation (MC) will be outsourcing sanitation services in the city. The issue was discussed in the General House Meeting held on Thursday.
Even after controlling Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) for over two decades, the CPI-M led board has failed to stop pollution created by industries in most of its wards.
City roads will soon present a smoother ride. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will now take up works for the improvement of more than 60 roads, including major ones.
The decision to close down the Deonar dumping ground was embroiled in an ugly debate, as members across party lines raised more than a 100 questions at the BMC
The colonies of Kolar municipality are filled with garbage and filth and stray cattle can be seen 24 hours feeding on the garbage. Time and again the Municipal authorities give assurances of getting the area cleaned. In the Municipality there are 174 sanitary employees but they seldom work.
Mumbai's civic body has come up with a plan to generate nearly 4 MW of power from a closed garbage dump, even while the open surface is turned into a nine-hole golf course.
Apart from doing its bit to improve Mumbai's power supply, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will also earn more than Rs 60 crore over ten years by way of carbon credits, according to civic officials.
At a time when the spurt in vector borne diseases have caught both the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department unaware, bureaucrats and politicians are busy passing the buck. And this has resulted in confusion over the fate of the dengue kits, which were sought by the civic body.
