Between April and June 2017, the school of health systems studies at TISS surveyed 375 tribal hutments with children aged under six, including 166 boys and 209 girls, in Vikramgad block of Palghar district.
Olirum Erodu Foundation has teamed up with Annai Cauvery River Protection Trust to carry out remediation of environmental pollution in the Cauvery River. The two organisations have resolved to organise
TISS survey throws up alarming results. While only six per cent surveyed schools in rural Maharashtra had some basic provision for assisting children with special needs in the toilets, of the 97.8
Atleast 50 per cent households in every area in the M-East ward stay in average or inadequate housing conditions, the highest being in Mankhurd (63.76 per cent in average and 10.72 per cent in inadequate
Alang se palang” (from Alang to the deathbed) is a grim saying among workers at the ship breaking yard in Alang in Gujarat. This proved true for five workers who died in a gas explosion on June 28, sparking
Hopes Rise For Better Quality Of Life Mumbai: Maharashtra’s urban population growth is slowing down. The latest Census 2011 figures show that in the 2001-2011 decade, the state urban population grew
Mumbai: In a sign that the government’s efforts to curb female foeticide may be bearing fruit in the city, Mumbai’s sex ratio at birth has inched up in comparison to the previous year. Sex ratio at birth
Mumbai: If one goes by the survey conducted by citizens groups and NGOs, there are 227 errors in the existing land use (ELU) plan for two wards in the eastern suburbs M East and M West wards in Chembur. The plan was recently made public by the civic body. The errors were identified by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, YUVA (Youth for Voluntary Action), SMS (Stree Mukti Sangathan) and Apnalaya. “All these errors are in M-East and M-West wards, which have the worst human development index in Mumbai.
Brazenly flouting environmental norms, hundreds of manufacturing units in Mumbai are operating illegally, without even the most basic “consent to operate” from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB).
