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Udupi Village Decides To Boycott Upcoming Elections Over Poor Facilities
Residents of a village in Kapu assembly segment of the Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha constituency have decided to boycott the upcoming election, in protest against the poor civic amenities there.
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First-Time Voters In Delhi Civic Polls Seek Cleaner City, Better Amenities
First-time voters batted for a spick and span Delhi with better civic amenities as they queued up for the MCD elections on Sunday.
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BJP's Delhi Civic Polls "Wachan Patra" Promises Houses For Slum Dwellers
The Delhi BJP today issued a 'Wachan Patra' ahead of the MCD polls, promising to provide EWS flats equipped with all the amenities to every slum dweller in the city.
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Bought A New House? How House Tax Is Calculated And Ways To File It
Local municipal authorities collect property tax for the maintenance of civic amenities and services like parks, sewer systems, roads, and street lights among other facilities.
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UP Snake Charmers Seek Caste Recognition To Avail Government Benefits
Snake charmers of UP's Sirsela village, who are finding it difficult to earn a livelihood, sought the government's support for civic amenities and asked for caste recognition to avail the benefits.
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COVID-19 Patient, 70, Flees Isolation Facility, Walks 17 km To Reach Home
A 70-year-old COVID-19 patient ran away from an isolation facility in Pune's Balewadi area and apparently walked 17 kilometres to reach his home in Yarwada. He alleged that he escaped the civic body's quarantine facility as it did not provide food to patients and lacked basic amenities like clean washrooms.
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Restoration Of Flooded Bengaluru Lake Soon, State To Compensate Victims
Kempajamma, who weaves flowers into garlands for a living, is still trying to clean up her home in Bengaluru's Krishna Layout that was flooded with water from the nearby Hulimavu Lake on Sunday afternoon. Like hundreds of others, Kempajamma is spending the night in a shelter set up by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) - the administrati...
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"Govern Or Resign": Angry Bengaluru Residents To Lawmakers Over Bad Roads
The residents of Bengaluru's Mahadevapura today gathered at one of the worst traffic zones in the city to protest against the crumbling infrastructure and poor civic amenities, demanding that their elected representatives either improve the situation or resign.
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Before Changing Delhi's Master Plan 2021, Consider Impact On Environment: High Court To Authorities
Before making any change to Delhi's master plan, policymakers should consider its possible impact on the environment as well as the burden it would impose on civic amenities, the Delhi High Court has said.
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Sachin Tendulkar Bats For Deonar Ground Residents, Writes To Civic Body
Batting for the Deonar residents, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to find long-term solutions to the problems, related to health and lack of basic amenities, faced by slum-dwellers residing near the waste dumping ground.
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Black Friday to Mark Lack of Civic Amenities in Parts of Bengaluru
Bengaluru may have been ranked as the country's cleanest state capital based on Swachh Bharat parameters of open defecation and solid waste management, but some of the residents would disagree about the city's overall civic amenities. In the IT hub of Whitefield area, members of the citizen's group, Whitefield Rising, are observing Black Friday as ...
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NDMC to Soon Launch App for Grievances About Poor Civic Amenities
The app will allow residents of New Delhi to take a photo of a poor civic amenities, and alert the authorities.
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Desperate Uttar Pradesh village offers cash for visit by MLA or MP
In a unique form of protest, the villagers of Bagholwa in Allahabad district have announced a reward of Rs 10,000 if their MLA and MP visit them. The reason: The villagers are fed up with the poor state of their roads, and other civic amenities and say that the ministers are not bothered about these after winning the elections.
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High Court stays proceedings against Higher Education minister
The Karnataka High Court today stayed proceedings for three weeks against Higher Education Minister C T Ravi and others in connection with a private complaint in a lower court accusing them of securing civic amenity sites and multiple housing sites in Chikmagalur.
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Two villages 'boycott' Delhi civic polls
Voters in two villages of the capital today "boycotted" the Delhi municipal polls protesting against authorities' apathy towards them in providing civic amenities like proper roads and drainage.
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Udupi Village Decides To Boycott Upcoming Elections Over Poor Facilities
Residents of a village in Kapu assembly segment of the Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha constituency have decided to boycott the upcoming election, in protest against the poor civic amenities there.
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First-Time Voters In Delhi Civic Polls Seek Cleaner City, Better Amenities
First-time voters batted for a spick and span Delhi with better civic amenities as they queued up for the MCD elections on Sunday.
-
BJP's Delhi Civic Polls "Wachan Patra" Promises Houses For Slum Dwellers
The Delhi BJP today issued a 'Wachan Patra' ahead of the MCD polls, promising to provide EWS flats equipped with all the amenities to every slum dweller in the city.
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Bought A New House? How House Tax Is Calculated And Ways To File It
Local municipal authorities collect property tax for the maintenance of civic amenities and services like parks, sewer systems, roads, and street lights among other facilities.
-
UP Snake Charmers Seek Caste Recognition To Avail Government Benefits
Snake charmers of UP's Sirsela village, who are finding it difficult to earn a livelihood, sought the government's support for civic amenities and asked for caste recognition to avail the benefits.
-
COVID-19 Patient, 70, Flees Isolation Facility, Walks 17 km To Reach Home
A 70-year-old COVID-19 patient ran away from an isolation facility in Pune's Balewadi area and apparently walked 17 kilometres to reach his home in Yarwada. He alleged that he escaped the civic body's quarantine facility as it did not provide food to patients and lacked basic amenities like clean washrooms.
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Restoration Of Flooded Bengaluru Lake Soon, State To Compensate Victims
Kempajamma, who weaves flowers into garlands for a living, is still trying to clean up her home in Bengaluru's Krishna Layout that was flooded with water from the nearby Hulimavu Lake on Sunday afternoon. Like hundreds of others, Kempajamma is spending the night in a shelter set up by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) - the administrati...
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"Govern Or Resign": Angry Bengaluru Residents To Lawmakers Over Bad Roads
The residents of Bengaluru's Mahadevapura today gathered at one of the worst traffic zones in the city to protest against the crumbling infrastructure and poor civic amenities, demanding that their elected representatives either improve the situation or resign.
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Before Changing Delhi's Master Plan 2021, Consider Impact On Environment: High Court To Authorities
Before making any change to Delhi's master plan, policymakers should consider its possible impact on the environment as well as the burden it would impose on civic amenities, the Delhi High Court has said.
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Sachin Tendulkar Bats For Deonar Ground Residents, Writes To Civic Body
Batting for the Deonar residents, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to find long-term solutions to the problems, related to health and lack of basic amenities, faced by slum-dwellers residing near the waste dumping ground.
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Black Friday to Mark Lack of Civic Amenities in Parts of Bengaluru
Bengaluru may have been ranked as the country's cleanest state capital based on Swachh Bharat parameters of open defecation and solid waste management, but some of the residents would disagree about the city's overall civic amenities. In the IT hub of Whitefield area, members of the citizen's group, Whitefield Rising, are observing Black Friday as ...
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NDMC to Soon Launch App for Grievances About Poor Civic Amenities
The app will allow residents of New Delhi to take a photo of a poor civic amenities, and alert the authorities.
-
Desperate Uttar Pradesh village offers cash for visit by MLA or MP
In a unique form of protest, the villagers of Bagholwa in Allahabad district have announced a reward of Rs 10,000 if their MLA and MP visit them. The reason: The villagers are fed up with the poor state of their roads, and other civic amenities and say that the ministers are not bothered about these after winning the elections.
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High Court stays proceedings against Higher Education minister
The Karnataka High Court today stayed proceedings for three weeks against Higher Education Minister C T Ravi and others in connection with a private complaint in a lower court accusing them of securing civic amenity sites and multiple housing sites in Chikmagalur.
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Two villages 'boycott' Delhi civic polls
Voters in two villages of the capital today "boycotted" the Delhi municipal polls protesting against authorities' apathy towards them in providing civic amenities like proper roads and drainage.
