BMC comes up with an official theme and a logo

Monday 13 May '13

Inspired by cities such as New York and Melbourne, BMC has undertaken a branding exercise for Mumbai. It has come up with the official theme

Rainwater harvesting success a trickle: study

Saturday 4 May '13

More than 10 years after it was made mandatory, BMC has failed to ensure rainwater harvesting in most new buildings.

Adjoining plot offers ray of hope to Campa Cola residents

Friday 3 May '13

After the Supreme Court (SC) granted them a five-month breather, occupants of the 35 unauthorised floors in the seven buildings at Campa Cola Compound in Worli are exploring options to get their flats...

Mumbai's massive pulldown operation

Wednesday 1 May '13

25 years after they were built on unauthorised additional floors

BMC proposal seeking builder accountability in cold storage

Tuesday 30 April '13

Had a BMC proposal to make registration of builders compulsory been approved, the three developers who added illegal floors to the high rises in Campa Cola Compound in Worli could be held accountable.

The A, B, C of LBT that has got businessmen all worked up

Tuesday 30 April '13

As a bandh fever grips the state, with transporters, traders, builders, wholesalers, pharmacists and others protesting local body tax (LBT) in the past few weeks, we look at the new form of indirect t...

BMC had rejected proposal to dereserve garden plot at Worli highrises

Thursday 25 April '13

The BMC had in 2001 rejected a proposal by the Sukhada and Shubhada cooperative housing societies to de-reserve a garden plot and rezone it for residential purposes.

City anchor: Architects, engineers present 'corrupt'' picture of civic officials

Wednesday 24 April '13

Greedy civic officials, lack of services despite huge payments, extortion by politicians and RTI activists, and a deaf administration these were a few of the issues raised by a forum of architects and...

In other buildings, fear of crash and eviction too

Monday 15 April '13

One of these has been rebuilt, apparently after such a declaration.

Forest dept issues notices to 16,500 illegal structures

Wednesday 10 April '13

The forest department, while distancing itself from in Mumbra building collapse, has now issued demolition notices to owners of 16,500 illegal structures on its land.

On shaky ground in Thane

Tuesday 9 April '13

On Thursday, a seven-storey building collapsed in Mumbra, a town 40 km north-east of Mumbai

In less than a month floors had come up, says man who complained thrice

Saturday 6 April '13

The civic administration received various complaints regarding the illegal structure and yet failed to take action.

Pancake collapse a rescue challenge

Saturday 6 April '13

NDRF officials say this leaves little space to conduct rescue operations, extreme caution being exercised

Pre-monsoon patchwork to cost BMC Rs 40 crore

Wednesday 3 April '13

With concretisation and asphalting of roads beset by inordinate delays, BMC has now decided to spend an additional Rs 40 crore on resurfacing uneven and pothole-ridden roads before this monsoon.

Only 22 clear BMC exam for engineers'' posts

Thursday 28 March '13

This is the first time BMC conducted an online entrance exam for screening applicants for engineering posts and 17,000 applied.

Key BMC papers to be preserved at Stock Holding Corporation

Wednesday 20 March '13

BMC is keen on preserving its important documents and records by storing them with the Stock Holding Corporation of India.

City anchor: 3 yrs on, BMC''s Marathi classes for corporators fail to take off

Thursday 14 March '13

A civic body proposal to teach Marathi to its non-Marathi corporators has failed to take off, three years after it was first approved by the Shiv Sena led-Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.

Rs 1-cr Bal Thackeray memorial plan draws flak

Thursday 7 March '13

Corporators say money should be spent on providing amenities instead.

BMC panel to chalk out new meal plan for students

Thursday 28 February '13

Following complaints of food poisoning due to consumption of flavoured milk by civic school students, BMC has now set up a panel to suggest alternatives.

BMC woos foreign companies to set up waste-to-energy plants in city

Thursday 21 February '13

The BMC will invite proposals from companies across the world to set up plants in order to treat the 6,500 metric tonnes of waste generated.

Toilets built by MLAs, MPs raise a stink

Thursday 21 February '13

Most toilets not connected to main sewers; BMC initiates survey.

BMC to take up survey of public toilets in city

Wednesday 20 February '13

More than 12 years after it undertook a survey of the city''s toilets, the civic administration will once again map all toilets across the city.

BMC to rope in retired employees to set right island city water supply

Thursday 14 February '13

BMC, which outsources a large number of projects for want of expertise, is planning to seek help of its retired engineers to expedite repair and replacement of old water pipelines in south Mumbai to p...

City anchor: Harbhajan wants to open academy in city, eyes Andheri Sports Complex

Tuesday 12 February '13

A day after making a comeback into the national Test side, offspinner Harbhajan Singh was found in the unlikely corridors of the Brihanmumbai Corporation.

Repair what you dig: Civic body to external agencies

Tuesday 12 February '13

Corporators oppose decision, say it may cause loss of revenue