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2 weeks ago

Andhra Pradesh govt initiates reforms for better municipal school management

VIJAYAWADA: Municipal schools in the State are poised for improved management and better educational outcomes, benefiting both students and teachers with the government directing Urban Local Bodies to address key administrative and maintenance issues. It called for reinstating non-teaching staff, improve school sanitation and infrastructure, and funding provisions to ensure smooth operations and enhanced educational standards at municipal schools. He …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Naga body temporarily suspends ‘public emergency’ in 6 districts after 4 months

Hindustan Times

The Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation has announced a temporary suspension of the “public emergency” imposed by it in the tribal areas under six eastern districts of Nagaland. According to ENPO, the step to suspend the “public emergency” was a measure aimed at fostering mutual understanding and pursuing a peaceful resolution regarding the creation of autonomous Frontier Nagaland Territory by the …

Eastern Naga Nagaland Enpo Ulb Tuensang Frontier Nagaland

5 months, 3 weeks ago

2 years after ban, single-use plastic still a common sight in Delhi

Hindustan Times

It has been two years since the country-wide ban on 19 single-use plastic came into force to phase them out but little has changed on the ground — indicating the need for stricter enforcement, and the lack of cheaper alternatives — spot checks by HT on Monday found. The ban was notified on July 1, 2022, after which enforcement teams …

Delhi Vendors Ban Plastic Dpcc Sup Ulb

5 months, 3 weeks ago

NDPP sweeps historic civic polls in Nagaland, wins all 3 municipal councils, most town councils

The Hindu

GUWAHATI Fresh from an upset in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party swept the urban local body elections in Nagaland on Saturday. State Election Commission officials said the NDPP won 152 seats across the municipal and town councils. “Out of 198 women candidates, 102, including eight in unreserved wards, emerged victorious, making a significant milestone …

Women Bjp Seats Polls Councils Nagaland State Ndpp

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Nagaland holds civic polls after 20 years

The Hindu

A majority of more than 2.23 lakh voters in Nagaland exercised their franchise in the elections to the urban local bodies held on June 26 after a 20-year gap. Boycott in 6 districts The elections, however, were not held in 14 town councils across six districts where the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation boycotted the polls, claiming their region has faced …

Women Election State Polls Nagaland Ulb Mokokchung

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Focus on women in Nagaland civic polls

The Hindu

After 20 years of resistance to the reservation of seats for women, Nagaland will vote for the urban local bodies on Wednesday. Of the 16 districts in the State, the civic polls will be held in 10 because of the non-participation of the communities in six eastern districts where the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation exercises its clout. Church appeal The …

Women Election State Vote Bjp Nagaland Ndpp

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Nagaland to hold first civic polls in 2 decades on Wednesday; 198 women in fray

Hindustan Times

Nagaland will hold the state’s urban local body polls in two decades on Wednesday with first-ever allocation of 33% quota of seats for women. A total of 523 candidates are in the fray across 25 ULBs, including three municipal and 21 town councils. Initially, 238 women had filed nominations but 23 of them from the eastern region withdrew in view …

Party Nagaland Ulb

6 months ago

Nagaland: 523 in fray for ULB polls, ENPO to abstain

Hindustan Times

Kohima: As Nagaland gears up to hold its first civic polls after two decades, the people from six eastern districts have planned to abstain from participating in the polling. On June 26, 24 ULBs across the state will go to polls to constitute the long overdue civic bodies The six districts – Mon, Tuensang, Longleng, Kiphire, Noklak and Shamator – …

State Polls Nagaland Enpo Ulb

6 months ago

A total of 79 candidates withdraw nomination from ULB election in Nagaland

The Hindu

“Altogether 79 candidates have withdrawn their nomination from the Urban Local Body election in Nagaland,” an official of the State Election Commission said, adding June 18 was the last date for withdrawal of nomination. A total of 669 candidates, including 238 females had filed their nomination papers for the three municipal and 36 town councils spread throughout the State, including …

Election State Nomination Nagaland Enpo Ulb Ulb Election

6 months, 1 week ago

Bonus for Congress in Nagaland: 3 civic poll candidates elected unopposed

The Hindu

GUWAHATI The tide seems to be turning for the Congress in Nagaland, a State where it had been almost wiped out before the Lok Sabha election on April 19. Three Congress candidates were elected unopposed in the urban local body polls for Mokokchung district’s Tuli Town Council on June 15. Defying the odds The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee congratulated the …

Congress Candidates State Poll Polls Ward Nagaland

6 months, 1 week ago

Swachh survey: Be ready for assessment, Odisha govt tells ULBs

New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: The state government has asked all its urban local bodies to remain prepared for Swachh Survekshan 2024 field assessment of the progress they have made in cleanliness and other parameters. Officials in Housing and Urban Development department said as per the direction of the national mission director of Swachh Bharat Mission Roopa Mishra, the state mission director, municipal commissioners …

Waste Management Assessment Waste Ulb

6 months, 1 week ago

Nagaland Urban Local Bodies elections: 669 candidates file nominations

The Hindu

A total of 669 candidates filed their nominations for the elections to the Urban Local Bodies in Nagaland that will be held on June 26. According to the State Election Commission, 669 candidates, including 238 women, filed their nomination papers for the three municipal councils and 36 town councils. Data | Nagaland women are socially empowered but underrepresented in politics …

Elections State Nagaland Enpo Ulb Filed Nominations 669 Candidates

6 months, 1 week ago

Nagaland Urban Local Bodies elections: 669 candidates file nominations for historic polls

India TV News

Nagaland is holding Urban Local Bodies elections after 20 years. A total of 669 candidates filed their nominations for the elections in Nagaland that will be held on June 26. 669 candidates, including 238 women, filed their nomination papers for the three municipal councils and 36 town councils, said the State Election Commission. Meanwhile, defying the call of the Eastern …

Elections State Election Nagaland Enpo Ulb 669 Candidates

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Nagaland to hold civic polls after 20 years, adds women’s quota

The Hindu

GUWAHATI The Nagaland Cabinet has approved the elections to the urban local bodies with 33% of the seats reserved for women. On April 27, Nagaland’s Municipal Affairs Department said that the State Election Commission approved the election schedule, which specified the number of wards reserved for women on rotation as mandated by the Nagaland Municipal Act of 2023. The Nagaland …

Women State Municipal Nagaland Ulb Mokokchung

9 months ago

It is March and drinking water woes loom large in four Urban Local Bodies in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu

It is March and drinking water crisis is looming large in several districts in Andhra Pradesh if the data revealed by the officials are any indication. The data suggest that residents of at least four Urban Local Bodies of Kadapa, Penugonda, Ongole and Hindupur are getting drinking water supply only once in three days. Water Resources Principal Secretary Shashibhushan Kumar …

Water Drinking Drinking Water Ulb

9 months, 1 week ago

Urban Agenda | After 10 years of vending law, 4 of PM SVANidhi scheme, are hawkers leading a better life?

Hindustan Times

On March 14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that his government was the first to safeguard the interests of street vendors. The Street Vendors Act received the President’s assent on March 4, 2014, after it was introduced by the erstwhile Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance government and passed by both houses of parliament. Until the Street Vendors Act, 2014 was …

Law Delhi Urban Street Vendors Survey Singh Act

9 months, 1 week ago

Finally, Nagaland prepares ground to hold civic polls with 33% reservation for women

Hindustan Times

Nagaland is readying to hold elections for its urban local bodies after a gap of 20 years following the receipt of Governor La Ganesan’s assent to the new Nagaland Municipal Bill 2023, recently. How the women’s reservation is connected to it Despite the constitutional requirement to ensure that a minimum of one-third of the total number of seats to be …

Elections Women Reservation State Seats Sec Polls

10 months, 1 week ago

Cabinet gives nod for granting B-Khata to constructions on unauthorised layouts under ULBs

The Hindu

The State Cabinet has reportedly approved a proposal to grant B-Khata for constructions that have come up on illegal layouts on non-government revenue lands in all the Urban Local Body areas as well as buildings without building plan and collect property tax from them. According to sources, the Cabinet’s decision to allow collection of property tax from such constructions may …

Properties Property Tax Cabinet Unauthorised Provisions Unauthorised Layouts Layouts

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Raising high stink: Tamil Nadu’s bulk waste disposal issues

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu, despite all its industrial prowess, seems to be grappling with an issue that jeopardises its environmental well-being — the violation of waste disposal norms and “clandestine auction” of waste by the very same industries that are driving the State’s economic advancement. According to the SWM Rules, “BWGs must ensure segregation of waste at source, facilitate collection of segregated …

Waste Management Tamil Nadu Chennai Industrial Tamil Tiruchi Rules

11 months, 1 week ago

T.N. begins ‘exploratory process’ for potential merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies

The Hindu

The Tamil Nadu government is undertaking an “exploratory process” to ascertain the possibility of merging village panchayats with nearby urban local bodies. It is against this backdrop that officials of two departments in charge of rural and urban local bodies - Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, and Municipal Administration and Water Supply - have begun the exercise of gathering inputs …

Local Rural Urban Local Bodies Official Panchayat Village Bodies

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Haryana MCs failed to conduct survey,maintain record: ACB probe

Hindustan Times

Almost five months after a Panipat resident filed a complaint with Haryana Lokayukta demanding action in alleged fraud worth crores during a property survey by a private agency in Haryana, the anti-corruption bureau has submitted its preliminary probe report. The ACB probe report submitted by Kushal Singh, SP, ACB, Panchkula, to the Lokayukta, said the errors in the surveyed work …

Record Haryana Lokayukta Survey Physical Verification Kapoor Certificates

1 year, 2 months ago

Fix property ID errors in 2 weeks or face action, Gurugram civic officials told

Hindustan Times

Amid complaints from residents over incorrect details in their property IDs, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram commissioner has warned employees that action will be taken if these errors are not rectified in the next two weeks, officials aware of the development said. Several residents have been complaining about the property IDs having incorrect details due to which they are facing …

Tax Property Property Tax Residents Mcg Meena Ids

1 year, 3 months ago

Understanding enablers and barriers to social protection of sanitation workers

Hindustan Times

There has been a strong focus on improving the sanitation situation in the last decade in India due to the Government of India ’s flagship program called Swachh Bharat Mission. Recognising the high level of social and economic vulnerability and discrimination faced by sanitation workers, GoI and several state governments have initiated many programmes and schemes, including social protection measures …

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1 year, 5 months ago

NOTA option to be made available to voters during urban local bodies’ polls in T.N.

The Hindu

The NOTA option will, hereafter, be a part of the electronic voting machines for urban local bodies in Tamil Nadu. This marks the State government fulfilling a long-standing demand of activists for the introduction of the NOTA option in polls to the ULBs. Nearly for nine years, the State Election Commission had pressed the State government to introduce NOTA. A …

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Andhra Pradesh govt initiates reforms for better municipal school management

Naga body temporarily suspends ‘public emergency’ in 6 districts after 4 months

2 years after ban, single-use plastic still a common sight in Delhi

NDPP sweeps historic civic polls in Nagaland, wins all 3 municipal councils, most town councils

Nagaland holds civic polls after 20 years

Focus on women in Nagaland civic polls

Nagaland to hold first civic polls in 2 decades on Wednesday; 198 women in fray

Nagaland: 523 in fray for ULB polls, ENPO to abstain

A total of 79 candidates withdraw nomination from ULB election in Nagaland

Bonus for Congress in Nagaland: 3 civic poll candidates elected unopposed

Swachh survey: Be ready for assessment, Odisha govt tells ULBs

Nagaland Urban Local Bodies elections: 669 candidates file nominations

Nagaland Urban Local Bodies elections: 669 candidates file nominations for historic polls

Nagaland to hold civic polls after 20 years, adds women’s quota

It is March and drinking water woes loom large in four Urban Local Bodies in Andhra Pradesh

Urban Agenda | After 10 years of vending law, 4 of PM SVANidhi scheme, are hawkers leading a better life?

Finally, Nagaland prepares ground to hold civic polls with 33% reservation for women

Cabinet gives nod for granting B-Khata to constructions on unauthorised layouts under ULBs

Raising high stink: Tamil Nadu’s bulk waste disposal issues

T.N. begins ‘exploratory process’ for potential merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies

Haryana MCs failed to conduct survey,maintain record: ACB probe

Fix property ID errors in 2 weeks or face action, Gurugram civic officials told

Understanding enablers and barriers to social protection of sanitation workers

NOTA option to be made available to voters during urban local bodies’ polls in T.N.