ENPO reject Nagaland govt’s appeal, says firm on decision to abstain from Urban Local Bodies electionsThe Eastern Nagaland People's Organisation (ENPO) rejects Nagaland government's appeal to participate in the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elect...
Urban local body polls likely to be held in Nagaland in AprilMunicipal elections in Nagaland were first conducted in 2004, and the terms of the civic bodies ended in 2009-10. The State Election Commis...
Counting of votes for ULB polls, assembly bypolls in UP beginsThe ULB polls were held in two phases on May 4 and May 11. About 53 per cent of voters exercised their franchise during the ULB polls out o...
Housing Minister releases guidelines for ranking cities based on financial performance, beautificationAccording to Manoj Joshi, Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, it is also an effort to analyse and help the ULBs in iden...
Fiscal azaadi for our cities: The mechanism urban local bodies must findThere is a need for urban local bodies across the country to find an alternative mechanism for financing development and reduce their depen...
Centre grants Rs 4,898 crore of reform-linked additional borrowing limit to Andhra and MPWhile AP received permission to mobilise Rs 2,525 cr through market borrowings, MP can raise an additional Rs 2,373 cr, according to a fina...
Bengaluru ULBs look to take over state-run librariesUrban Local Bodies in Karnataka will soon be in charge of maintaining the state's many public libraries, pending approval from the governme...
ULBs contribute to less than 37% revenue of total receiptAmong the 12 states analysed in the study, Punjab (74%), Goa (55%) and Andhra Pradesh (54%) were the only ones whose municipal bodies contr...
Nagaland government to go ahead with polls despite protestsThe polls to ULBS are slated for February 1 and a section of tribal bodies have formed Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) to oppose the mov...
Centre asks states for report on funds utilisation for ULBsUrban Development Ministry "sought utilization reports in respect of FFC grants for the year 2015-16 by the end of next month," a statement...
Odisha Urban Infrastructure Development Fund approves nine projects worth Rs 905.19 cr for ULBsApproval to urban infrastructure projects were made at the OUIDF's Board of Trustees Meeting held here under the chairmanship of Chief Secr...
Only 9 states eligible for performance grants of ULBsOnly nine of 29 states in the country were found eligible for getting performance grants of urban local bodies during 2014-15, Rajya Sabha ...
- Odisha urban polls tomorrow
An estimated 18 lakh voters will go to polls tomorrow in 1,968 booths to elect 1,103 ward members in 66 urban local bodies (ULBs) including...
Omar Abdullah government exposed over failure to hold ULB polls: BJPSharma said that BJP's rise in the state, too, had served to discourage the NC-government from going ahead with the said elections.
Yeddyurappa says his next target is to storm assembly polls"My first target was to finish the BJP in ULB elections because they had ditched me. People have taught them a lesson," Yeddyurappa said.
- WB, ADB may lend directly to urban bodies
The government may allow multilateral funding agencies such as World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) to directly extend debt to urban...
- Municipalities may get access to funds abroad
The Centre may allow urban local bodies (ULBs) or municipalities to mobilise resources directly from multilateral funding agencies like Wor...