Carrying out public works not a favour to people, Bombay HC tells BMC

Mumbai | Wednesday | 28th June, 2017

Summary:

The work order issued by BMC on October 2016, included carrying out construction of a storm water drain and re-asphalting the surface roads. It can always be given notice, and a proper acknowledgement obtained. The BMC in its reply in May 2017, claimed that a notice relating to this work was pasted on the society’s gates in April 2013. The High Court said that since BMC says it is fully digitized and has “fine e-capabilities,” it should start using them and adjust its procedures to ones that are more contemporary. The BMC expects citizens to accept that a so-called notice given four years ago, merely pasted somewhere is one of which a citizen or a society will keep track..