Posts Tagged ‘Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012
According to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) officials, the work of Metro rial on the Chaderghat-Malakpet stretch will hopefully start soon.
The Chaderghat-Malakpet stretch falls on the LB Nagar-Miyapur corridor (Corridor Number 1). On December 20, the corporation started removing properties in Hyderabad which mainly comprised of commercial property.
For this purpose, corporation already marked the area to be demolished for each property as the extent of work varies with the alignment of the work. For example it varies from 12 ft to 18 ft for demolition lie on the stretch from Imlibun to Mahbub Mansion and few other areas also.
Most of the owners of the properties in Hyderabad have given their consent in this case while others have obtained stay against the demolition. The agreed owners accepted the compensation which was paid on par with the market value. They were paid Rs 32,000 per square yard of property acquired.
City Model High school obtained stay against the demolition. The matter was then moved to State Human Rights Commission. The district collector then announced not to demolish school buildings until the students are shifted to another place.
This demolition by GHMC will hopefully end by February 2013 after which Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) would take over the charge.
Tags: Chaderghat-Malakpet metro rail work, Chaderghat-Malakpet stretch in Hyderabad, demolish buildings in hyderabad, GHMC, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad Metro Rail, Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited, Properties in Hyderabad
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Friday, August 17th, 2012
Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) faced criticism from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recently for their failure for not upgrading sewerage network in the Greater Hyderabad limits.
Not even five percent of the new sewage pipelines were laid in the last ten years. Due to lack of sewerage network, nearly 75 percent of sewage that is generated in the city is diverted into the storm water drains maintained by GHMC and house owners.
GHMC top officials stated that they will take up the issue with the HMWS&SB and request them to lay adequate sewerage lines wherever required and asked people to connect the sewage lines instead of letting into the storm water drains.
Tags: GHMC, GHMC Hyderabad, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, sewage pipelines, storm water drains
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Sources reveal that even after a year is passed of the report on flyovers and bridges were submitted to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Hyderabad (GHMC), the civic body has not yet taken up any initiative to address the repairs needed.
The condition of nearly 40 flyovers, rail over bridges (ROBs) and other bridges and suggested repairs were contained in the report.
However, since the repairs might incur cost of several crores of rupees, the corporation is hesitating to take up repairs.
The inventory reports revealed that many bridges had problems due to worn-out condition and attention is required like wearing coat joint, expansion joints (gap between two slabs), pedestals, bearing pads and hairline cracks on main girders.
The corporation has not shown any initiative even after a year has passed on and in regards to flyovers like Narayanguda and Basheerbagh, the GHMC officials have maintained that since the flyovers were built by the urban authority they should take up repairs and the responsibility for them does not lie with the corporation.
Tags: Basheerbagh, flyovers, GHMC, GHMC Hyderabad, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad, Narayanguda, rail over bridges
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to collect surcharge and other taxes in colonies where new development works will be taken up under Total Infrastructure Program (TIP). The works would be taken up in new colonies in surrounding municipal circles with a loan of Rs 600 crore proposed to be taken from various financial institutions and banks.
Four options are being considered for collecting surcharge and other taxes from residents of the new colonies.
* As per the first option, colonies that benefit should pay special betterment charges till repayment of the loan is completed.
* The second option is property tax should be increased by five to 10 per cent per year on all properties like in the case of gram panchayaths as a surcharge.
* While the third option is to collect 10 per cent surcharge on property tax from residents of the colonies where infrastructure is created through the loan amount. The Total Infrastructure Program (TIP) surcharge would be in force for 10 years from the year of completion of works.
* The last option is in lieu of TIP surcharge, the colony associations might be given an option to pay 10 per cent of the project cost.
More News: http://www.commonfloor.com/stories/ghmc-to-impose-surcharge-on-development-works-3777
Tags: GHMC, GHMC standing committee, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad, Hyderabad Real estate, Loan from banks, proposal to burden the residents, Real estate in India, Surcharge on development works, Total Infrastructure Program
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
With sanitation workers of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) having stopped lifting of garbage from the twin cities on account of the two-day bandh, heaps of garbage have piled up in almost all lanes and by-lanes.
Because of garbage not being cleared, foul and nauseating smell has started emanating in localities.
About 3,800 metric tonnes of garbage, generated daily in the GHMC limits is lifted by 18,000 sanitation workers.
Even mechanized sweeping units used during night have stopped because of the bandh. GHMC commissioner Sameer Sharma held a meeting with union leaders and it was decided to resume the lifting of garbage from Wednesday morning. However, leaders said the non cooperation movement would continue.
Read More: expressbuzz.
Tags: garbage not being cleared, Garbage piles up in twin cities, GHMC, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, sanitation workers
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Corporators of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) have demanded an amendment of the New Building Rules (GO 86) on collection of 200 per cent property tax from unauthorized buildings and buildings which did not take occupancy certificates from the corporation.
The GHMC council has decided to send a delegation of all floor leaders to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking amendment of the New Building Rules.
Telugu Desam floor leader Singireddy Srinivas Reddy raised the issue soon after the special GHMC council meeting on budget began on Monday. He said the corporation has been collecting 200 per cent property tax from unauthorized buildings and buildings which were not regularized. He said as per the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, only 25 per cent tax could be levied on unauthorized structures.
MIM corporator from Hussaini Alam, Mir Zulfeqar Ali, said the standing committee of the GHMC resolved to collect only 25 per cent additional property tax on the unauthorised structures till they were regularised or demolished by the corporation but not 200 per cent. Another corporator Diddi Rambabu said they would oppose any move to collect 200 per cent tax.
GHMC commissioner Sameer Sharma said as per GO 86, 200 per cent additional tax has to be collected from buildings which did not have occupancy certificate and did not talk about unauthorized structures. He said he had written to the government for amendment of GO 86 on the resolution made by the standing committee.
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Times of India
Tags: amendment of New Building Rules, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, Hyderabad Real estate, levying property tax on illegal buildings, property tax from unauthorized buildings, Real estate Hyderabad, unauthorized structures, Unauthorized structures Hyderabad
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Option IV of the panel: Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Seemandhra and Telangana with enlarged Hyderabad Metropolis as a separate Union Territory. This Union Territory will have geographical linkage and contiguity via Nalgonda district in the south-east to district Guntur in coastal Andhra and via Mahboobnagar district in the south to Kurnool district in Rayalaseema
(a) This option flows from option (ii) which highlights the characteristics of a growing global city. The city’s boundaries have recently been revised to extend the municipal limits from the 175 km of the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) to 625 km of the current Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The erstwhile Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has been replaced by an expanded Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), headed by the Chief Minister, with a substantial area of 7073 km, which is about twice the size of the state of Goa. In this option an extended Union Territory of approx. 12,000 km has been proposed.
(b) In the view of the Committee, Hyderabad region is critical to the growing economy of the state and the nation as a whole. Its GDP is becoming increasingly centred in the modern services and transport sector which accounted for 58% of its GDP in 2005-06, up from 43% in 1999-2000. Being the main software centre of Andhra Pradesh it also accounts for 15% of the national IT exports. Besides, infrastructure and real estate are the other key growth areas in Hyderabad. The city has deep social linkages with the rest of the state and this is reflected in the transport links as well as in the immigration from the other regions. Earlier migrants from outside the state were mainly from Karnataka and Maharashtra but of late the share of eastern and northern states has visibly increased and the pattern is now closer to that of Mumbai which reflects its growing integration with the national economy. Hyderabad is also a strategically important city for the nation. It hosts many institutions of excellence and establishments of strategic importance. These not only source talent from all over the country, but are also vital from the national security perspective.
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Tags: Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, growing economy of the state, Hyderabad can be a Union Territory, Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, infrastructure and real estate, Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Tax payers are crying foul over the fact that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has levied a penalty on property tax without serving notices to the concerned tax payers. In fact, several property owners have not received notices till date.
The contract of issuing the notices was given to the postal department but the officials of the department claim that many of the addresses that the GHMC provided are incorrect.
The GHMC had transferred the job of issuing notices to the postal department following complaints against the manner in which the GHMC was issuing property tax bills.
There are around 12 lakh property tax payers in Greater Hyderabad, of which, 2.50 lakh have paid their tax before October 31. Notices were to be served to the remaining property owners but not even 30 per cent of the property owners were served with notices.
As per the Municipal Corporation Act, the tax officials can levy an interest of two per cent on the total tax along with arrears if the same is not paid by the due date. Therefore, the officials of the tax wing at the GHMC are asking property owners to cough up an interest or penalty for late payment.
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to levy property tax on buildings that have come up in an unauthorized manner on government, ceiling, assigned and notary lands. The corporation hopes to raise over Rs 50 crore by bringing illegal properties under its tax net.
Among the properties that are under the GHMC scanner are numerous buildings that have come up in Gurukul Trust Lands at Madhapur. GHMC officials point out that the civic body is providing all amenities including roads, street lights, garbage removal and other infrastructural facilities to the localities in which these illegal constructions were located.
However, a majority of the owners of these buildings are not paying property tax to the GHMC
Source: Deccanchronicle
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