Mumbai

Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change regarding CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from Amra Marg to …

Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Gavhan Koliwada Matsyavyavsayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Vs City & Industrial Development Corporation & Others dated 28/01/2025. City & Industrial Development Corporation submitted a proposal for CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from …

Thinking out of a box

Recycling of tetra pak cartons has started in Mumbai following a joint venture between their manufacturer, Tetra Pak India Pvt Ltd (tpil) the Daman Ganga Paper Mill (dgpm) and a non-governmental organisation, Stree Mukti Sanghatna (sms). "A few months back I did not even know what a tetrapak is. But …

There s nothing august about Mumbai

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After 26/7

after rains, it is pouring committees, commissions and fact-finding teams in Mumbai: the Mithi River Development and Protection Agency, an eight member fact-finding team; a team lead by Pune-based Central Water and Power Research Station (cwprs), another three member fact-finding committee; the Maharashtra Disaster Management Authority. These committees have almost …

Alternative transport facilities

The rainfall of 26 July 2005, which deluged Mumbai city and parts of Mumbai Metropolitan Region (mmr), was unprecedented. In the city of Mumbai, water logging has been more or less an annual feature, but not flooding of this kind. It caused floods, the depth of which even reached near …

A rug over Bombay High fire?

A major accident that hit a platform of Bombay High (bh), India's largest offshore oil facility, on July 26, 2005, has put a question mark on the safety measures taken by the country in oil-exploration activities. The fire killed 12 employees of the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc) …

In Short

sonia's take: While the Centre plans to move the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill in the current session of Parliament, Congress president Sonia Gandhi recently suggested four amendments to it. She said employment should be guaranteed to anyone who offers to work for the prescribed wage, not merely to the …

Receiving end

Release of water from Maharashtra's reservoirs following heavy rain flooded Karnataka, especially Bijapur, Raichur, Gulbarga and Belgaum districts. Seven other districts were also affected. The death toll touched 111 on August 6, 2005. Villages along the Krishna, Bhima and Ghataprabha rivers were the worst hit. Crops worth Rs 160 crore …

Mill land boon

On April 1, 2005 the Mumbai High Court stayed the sale of textile mill lands in the city. The order was a pleasant surprise to many who have, over the years, seen the state machinery degenerating into a handmaiden of real-estate operators. It was also heartening that the court had …

Animal treatment was an alien concept for us

"Our wild carnivore rescue team in Jalgaon was created in the middle of last year. It consists of five members

Proper channel online

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) is reaping the benefits of e-governance. A software it introduced in 2003 is fast changing the image of its 24 ward offices of being sluggish and incompetent, at least with regard to tackling people's complaints. With the help of the Online Complaint Monitoring System (ocms), …

Shanghai ed

Finance minister P Chidambaram goes to Mumbai to deliberate, with its corporati, upon urban renewal, and promises sparkling growth for this bursting metropolis. On the way to the venue, he is confronted by angry slum-dwellers whose homes have been demolished to make way for the new age city. They say …

In court

Time to tell all: The Delhi High Court has issued notices to various departments and functionaries of the Union and Delhi governments on a public interest litigation seeking to ensure that manufacturers of tobacco and alcoholic products disclose the list of ingredients on product packets. Replies to the notices have …

Clean blow

mumbai-based Reliance Energy Limited (rel) is in the soup following a March 19, 2005, order of Dahanu Taluka Environment Protection Authority (dtepa) of Dahanu, Maharashtra. rel has to furnish a bank guarantee of Rs 300 crore in favour of the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) within a month …

World Bank funded slum sanitation programme in Mumbai

Mumbai’s Slum Sanitation Programme that seeks community responsibility and its involvement in the setting up of sanitation facilities in living areas holds out important lessons for similar collaborative endeavours between the government, funding agencies, civil society organisations and the affected community. While such a broadly participatory approach ensures the accrual …

Wrong path

The old Mumbai-Pune highway (NH-4) is getting a makeover and will be turned into a toll expressway by 2006. The Maharashtra State Road Corporation recently awarded a tender of Rs 918 crore to Mumbai-based Ideal Road Builders Private Limited (IRB) to overhaul NH-4. This is bad news because the present …

In Court

Burn the hazard: The Supreme Court (SC) on January 5, 2004, ordered the destruction of illegally imported hazardous waste oil, lying at Mumbai's Nhava Sheva port, by incineration. The consignment of 133 containers was illegally imported in August

The long and winding road

The chaos on the roads is choking the growth of India's IT capital, Bangalore You just cannot build a competitive economy with pot-holed roads, erratic power supply, choked ports, dirty cities and thirsty villages. It is a bit like batting on a bad wicket: you may be good, but the …

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding dumping of hazardous waste in India, 05/01/2005

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Research Foundation for Science Technology and Natural Resources Policy Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/01/2005 regarding dumping of hazardous waste, India. The matter relates to 133 hazardous waste oil containers lying at Nhava Sheva Port, Mumbai, Maharashtra. …

Simmering

Before every Diwali Kumbharwada, the potters’ colony in Dharavi, Mumbai

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