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After deluge, House sees stormy scenes

Chandigarh, Aug. 21 -- Two days after an unprecedented deluge laid bare the inadequacies inChandigarh's drainage system and disaster management plans, the municipal corporation (MC) General House meet... Read More


House 'kept in dark' over scrapping of free water agenda

Chandigarh, Aug. 21 -- The proposal of providing 20,000 litres of water to every household, which topped the manifesto of the now dismantled Congress-Aam Aadmi Party alliance during 2024 Lok Sabha ele... Read More


Minutes of meeting show 9 table agendas passed sans requisite quorum

Chandigarh, Aug. 19 -- Amid the controversy surrounding the table agenda worth Rs.227 crore being passed without discussion in the previous MC House meeting on July 31 resulting in backlash by the opp... Read More


MC to make NOCs mandatory for all shops, eateries selling meat

Chandigarh, Aug. 18 -- The municipal corporation (MC) is set tooverhaul rules governing meat, fish, poultry shops andcommercial food establishments in Chandigarh, with a detailed agenda regarding the ... Read More


Submit suggestions to MC on waste mgmt rules within 15 days

Chandigarh, Aug. 17 -- A fortnight after the General House of the Municipal Corporation approved the Solid Waste Management-2026 bylaws, the civic body has invited suggestions and observations from th... Read More


Rs.7 cr since '24: Crackdown against squatters boosts UT MC revenue

Chandigarh, Aug. 10 -- The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, which has collected nearly Rs.7 crore by issuing challans to 64,806 encroachers across the city since 2024, has seen a sharp rise in revenu... Read More


Congress brings back Bansal, Tewari in-charge of poll panel

Chandigarh, Aug. 8 -- Ahead of the municipal corporation (MC) elections slated for December, the Congress high command has accommodated former Chandigarh MP and Union minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, 78, ... Read More


Rs.227-crore agenda passed without discussion, withdrawn after outcry

Chandigarh, Aug. 6 -- A table agenda costing Rs.227 crore - one third of the total grant-in-aid received by the municipal corporation (MC) this financial year - was hurriedly passed during the House m... Read More


Under fire for sanitation employees' deployment, civic body seeks report

Chandigarh, Aug. 3 -- Concerns over the deployment and distribution of safai karamcharis in the city's northern sectors were raised during the Municipal Corporation House meeting on Friday, with counc... Read More


No hike in user charges but waste rules violators to pay through nose

Chandigarh, Aug. 1 -- While approving steeper penalties for littering, throwing waste in public and dumping garbage in water bodies, the General House of the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) reje... Read More