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Bellandur lake hinterland development

 

The agricultural land below the Lake abutment forming the Bellandur Lake is being developed for residential / commercial use as the case may be. It is the present owners choice to convert agricultural land in to residential / commercial purposes as it has now come within BBMP area. Some who may not like to convert have that choice too.

Bellandur Lake Bed - Land fill activity in full swing!?

Environment

Massive land fill operation seems to be on in the Bellandur Lake bed area. Marking the exact location on the map below.

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Vignan Nagar Roads - Miserable

Roads of Vignan Nagar were recently tarred for first time, which reduced mud and diseases to great extent. Shortly after this BBMP dug up all the roads for laying water pipes, leaving no way even to walk for weeks. After lying the pipes, deep holes were filled back with loose mud, leaving Vignan nagar once again in mud and pollution.

Is Service tax applicabe for Monthly Maintenance Charges by Apartment Association?

The Maintenance Charges are collected by Apartment Association which is not a profit making body.

As per law, does service tax need to be collected from Aprtment members?

Is the Service tax appliable to be levied on the maintenance charges? even though the Apartment is maintained by the Association and not by the Builder.

BBMP now in tree nurturing mode

Environment

While doing up the footpaths/ roads, a few years back, the paving/ concreting was done almost choking the tree trunks/ roots, as seen in the pictures below:

Decentralized urban poor rehabilition strategy

In the run up to Anna Hazare's fast & IAC's drive to the Jan Lok Pal bill one of the key topics that emerged was the kind of politicians & corporators we end up electing. It can be easily proven that this is not a countryside phenomenon and that the BBMP council also has its share of corporators with criminal history or no intention to address civic issues.

ST Bed Koramangala area, Is this rework of drainage-covering height increase needed?

Have a look at these 2 photos, the footpaths over the drainage lines in ST Bed, Koramangala area.

HAL III Stage Park Beautification 2011

To day March 24, 2011 the Beautification programme of our Park at HAL III stage Bangalore 560075 was kick started by our MLA Mr. Raghu and Corporater Mr. Vijay Kumar.  The function started at 9:30AM and went on till 11:30 

Why the need for ration card to get a gas connection only in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu?

Any citizen of India is eligible for a subsidized gas connection for household use.I am not able to get even a single cylinder for household cooking since I do not have a ration card, nor can I transfer the cylinder I have on my name in Maharashtra to here.I have to pay more than a Rs.1000/- for a cylinder from a private vendor.

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