Thane creek: No clean up only apathy
Over Rs '1000 crore has been sanctioned to clean up Mithi River the plight of thane creek just a few kilometers away form it worsens every day. The problems for it are similar to those which
Over Rs '1000 crore has been sanctioned to clean up Mithi River the plight of thane creek just a few kilometers away form it worsens every day. The problems for it are similar to those which
With Monsoon Round The Corner, TOI Does A Rain Check Yogesh Naik & Sanjeev Shivadekar | TNN Mumbai: The part of the Mithi river that flows under the runway of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport will be widened soon. Announcing this, chief minister Ashok Chavan said that GVK, which manages the Mumbai airport, will have to undertake the work after October 1.
The fact finding committee appointed by the Bombay high court to look into allegations that sludge removed during the Mithi River clean up operation was being dumped into mangrove pockets in
With about 45 days left of the time allotted by the Bombay High Court to the state agencies to clean up Mithi river, the work is still behind schedule. The authorities had planned to vacate and start
Former member of Parliament (MP) Kirit Somaiya on Saturday submitted a report to the Bombay High Court on the condition of the Mithi river. Directed by the high court on March 3 to study the abuse of
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh morning flagged off the desilting and deepening of the Mithi river in Kurla with much fanfare. But if the scene two hours later was any indication, a pre-monsoon
Coming down heavily on the state government, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for the slackening pace of the Mithi river clean-up, the
The Bombay High Court directed various government agencies to file in a week's time an affidavit detailing the action plan for Mithi river. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
The Mumbai metropolitan regional Development Authority has prepared a blueprint fot he restoration of Mithi river. The Project at a cost of Rs 125 crore would be completed in 2007.
The state government would require at least Rs 200 crore to clean up the heavily polluted Mithi river that casued a havcc during the july floods in the metropolies. A meeting of the development
The Mithi river, which originates in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivli, and flows through the city collecting nearly 800 million litres of sewage and toxic effluents from Dharavi and other
Mumbai: The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the state pollution board to ensure that the Mithi, Waduli, Ulhas and Patalganga rivers be restored to pure forms.
Mumbai needs to grapple with real questions
Mumbai: Mithi river, much abused by encroachment and pollution, is set to receive a fresh lease of life. In a bid to revive Mithi's pristine glory, a group of environmentalists from the city, inspired by Magsaysay Award-winning conservationist, Rajendra Singh, formed a core group, christened Mithi Sansad, with 60 members and a five-member coordination committee, for the purpose.
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday appointed a three-member expert committee to study the tidal movement of the Mithi river after construction of a 300-metre long wall on the Vakola Nalla. The committee, which has been told to submit a report in four week, will also look at the effects the wall construction has on the surrounding mangroves.
With the next hearing posted on September 26 in the Maharashtra high court on a public interest litigation (PIL) for the Mithi river, various government agencies like the Maharashtra pollution
Siddhesh Inamdar MUMBAI: The Mithi river, whose flooding had brought Mumbai to a standstill during the deluge in 2005, threatened to go out of control on Tuesday, following heavy rains since the previous evening. In Kurla, a low-lying area, 140 hutment dwellers from Kranti Nagar were evacuated by fire service officials as the river crossed the danger level of 2.8 metres.
In October 2013, the Nation Green Tribunal had ordered all 239 ‘polluting’ industries on the banks to be shut. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has recently issued closure notices to
Mumbai, July 04 Making a pitch for Central funding of its ambitious Mumbai makeover projects, the state government has demanded that the Rs 2,356-crore first arm of the Mumbai Metro project be granted viability gap funding (VGF) by the Centre. According to senior government officials, in a recent meeting at the cabinet secretariat in New Delhi they had also demanded that the Union Ministry of Urban Development fund 35 per cent of the Rs 1,300-crore Mithi river clean-up project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
MUMBAI: Prashant Kolwadkar, a resident of Ashtavinayak Apartment, Bandra (E), cannot open the window close to his dining table even at breakfast time. His Kalanagar friend Ajit Verma also has a similar problem. To blame are the sudden swarm of mosquitoes flooding the area as if it were the monsoon. And making matters worse is an unbearable stench emitted by a stretch of the Mithi.