Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Mumbai, September 10 Months after visiting World Bank officials suggested that laws should be changed to allow Mumbai grow vertically like New York, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Wednesday asked the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to conduct a study on the policies to be adopted for such a development. He was speaking at a meeting of the MMRDA, which also discussed key projects like Sewri-Nhava Shewa Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), Mumbai Metro, monorail and construction of two feeder flyovers for the under-construction Bandra-Worli sea link being.
Mumbai, September 09 Publishes pamphlets asking people to use artificial ponds;
Civic body to take over reins, develop garden and children
Mumbai, September 08 Seven mechanised parking lots to be constructed at Dadar, Borivali, Kurla, Powai, Matunga on PPP basis Commuters can soon look forward to parking their four-wheelers inside mechanised multi-storey parking lots before walking across a spiffy skywalk connecting to the nearest railway station.
Mumbai, September 7 As Reliance-led consortium frets, Scomi-Larsen & Toubro consortium agrees to pay Rs 50 lakh for every day beyond deadline, says metro development agency
Mumbai, September 7 If an annual visit to the Lalbaugcha Raja is mandatory for you during Ganeshotsav, here
The mosquitoes seem to have woken up the government after taking 72 lives and spreading the malaria germ in at least 16,000 people since June. Minister of state for public health Ranjit Kamble convened a meeting with civic authorities on Thursday, asking them to go on an overdrive against malaria. The state health authorities have admitted that malaria cases have touched newer levels in Mumbai as well as Maharashtra this year. At least 5,394 people have been admitted to various civic hospitals in the city because of malaria since the beginning of monsoon.
Mumbai, September 5 Plagued with the increasing malaria cases in the city, with highest numbers observed in urban Maharashtra, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to step up the surveillance activities and anti-malaria measures.
Mumbai, September 4 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to set up a Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste recycling facility on the premises of Deonar dumping ground soon. According to the sources, the plant will be operational in the next two years. Interestingly, the construction waste will be recycled to make building tiles, bricks and paver blocks.
Palak Shah / Mumbai September 3, 2008, 0:40 IST Over 100 chemical storage tanks built at the Pirpav jetty near Chembur have been operating without approvals from the ministry of environment and forests for over 18 years. Each of these tanks has an average capacity of 200,000 kilolitres of oil.