People are beginning to feel the effect of scorching heat in the very beginning of April. Most of the wells have dried. There is no water in ponds. Either the hand pumps give impure water or they have started to go out of order. Water crisis is also prevailing in cities. In several cities water has become a scarce commodity. Water level of big reservoirs are decreasing rapidly. Dams are in deteriorating condition. The members of municipal corporations and municipal councils often argue with one another. Water is being sold in all the big cities including capital.
About 35 per cent of municipal water is wasted daily in the city because of leakage and misuse, scientists said today. Out of seven million children aged less than five years who die in the world due to water-borne diseases, 1.5 million are from India alone. Alarming figures such as this were revealed during the National Symposium on Environment and Water (NSEW) organised here today by the Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH), West Bengal regional centre.
Call it the horns of a dilemma. The BMC cannot decide whether to keep male and female dogs together or separately in the two proposed shelters for canines in Palghar and Thane. The problem will be highlighted in an affidavit the civic body will submit to the Bombay high court during a hearing scheduled for Friday. The court had ordered the BMC to set up two shelters for the city's strays on the outskirts of Mumbai. But the BMC, while going about the task, has come across several points that it cannot make up its mind about.
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is to receive over Rs 179 crore from the State Government on account of outstanding shares of various taxes, etc., under the provisions of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation Act, 1971. The Corporation was to receive around Rs 179 crore from the Government on March 31, 2006.
Wiser after a series of fatal mishaps, police have been seeking help from various municipalities for better traffic management. The civic bodies have been requested to join hands with the cops to spread awareness about traffic norms and take steps to ensure road safety. The municipalities have responded to the plea and are in talks with the police over the measures to be taken.
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), which is undergoing problems of severe fund crunch, has finally heaved a sigh of relief after the State Government released Rs 5 Crore to tide over the prevailing situation recently. The Government has released the money as part of the GMC's dues pending with the State Government since the last many years. A GMC official while talking to this correspondent said that the Government has released the money from the Motor Vehicle tax collected by it in the city.
As a reactionary measure to mushrooming unauthorised constructions in the Capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has launched a software for detecting and monitoring such constructions and encroa
30 With the rising temperatures marking the arrival of summers, the city is all set to sizzle in the scorching heat. As the sun shines in all its fury, water becomes the elixir of life.
