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Bhubaneswar: A month-and-a-half after the cyclone Fani battered Odisha, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Wednesday started validating a list of the city’s street vendors affected by the calamity in order to provide each of them an assistance of Rs 10,000, officials said. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced last month that about 30,000 street vendors […]

Bhubaneswar: Kendrapara Collector Prem Chandra Chaudhary was today appointed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner after a major bureaucratic reshuffle in Odisha.  Samarth Verma, presently posted as BMC Commissioner, has been appointed Kendrapara Collector. Following the reshuffle in IAS and OAS levels, 32 officers were transferred and given assignments. District collector of Cuttack, Aravind Agrawal, has […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sealed the Judicial Complex at Lewis Road here for seven days following the detection of Covid-19 positive cases in the court complex. The…

Bhubaneswar: With Covid-19 spreading its tentacles far and wide across the State, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday has cautioned that it will be forced to take stern measures if…

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up a team of experts to investigate the incident of wall collapse at Pimpripada in Malad, in which 26 people were killed. The team, which comprises experts from the IIT Bombay and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), has been asked to submit a report within 15 days, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday sealed the Market Building in Unit-2 over alleged violation of social distancing and other Covid-19 protocols. The market area, one of the…

Bhubaneswar: Around six houses that were illegally constructed on government land at Haldipadia slum were razed to ground in a special drive undertaken by the joint enforcement squad of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday. All the unauthorized constructions were demolished amidst tight security arrangements by Commissionerate Police. The authorities […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Orissa High Court restrained BMC from collecting enhanced holding tax, the State unit of Congress on Monday demanded that the civic body should return the…

Bhubaneswar: After 21 years, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to revise holding tax collected from land owners based on the updated benchmark value of land cost. As per existing rules, State government increases the benchmark value of land in every two years. Based on that, BMC is supposed to fix the holding tax […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to make the capital city open-defecation free, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to impose penalties for open defecation and urination. While Rs 200 will be charged as penalty for open defecation, a fine of Rs 150 will be imposed for urinating in the open. According to the official notification […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun the process of shifting major markets (Haats) in the capital city to decentralised alternate locations in view of the alarming rise in…

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) jointly began a demolition drive at decades-old Lingaraj Market complex in the Old Town here on Friday. Four JCB machines were engaged by the authorities for the demolition drive which began as per a prior notice. One platoon of police force has been deployed […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday announced to seal as many as 29 Marriage Mandaps and Kalyan Mandaps under its north zone jurisdiction while acting on allegations of their functioning without valid trade license and other necessary prerequisites. Issuing a notification in this regard, the BMC authorities mentioned that the aforesaid venues are […]

Bhubaneswar: With a steady and rapid increase in the number of Covid-19 positive cases across the State especially in the Capital city, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has come up…

Bhubaneswar: The city administration in the capital city of Odisha on Wednesday asked all employees to come to office on cycle or by walking once in a week to promote a better city environment, healthy lifestyle and sustainable urban habitat. The city administration comprising Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL), Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar […]