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 …
Greenpeace campaigners on board their ship Rainbow Warrior, on a Corporate Accountability tour, get into a conflict with the Indian authorities. When Rainbow Warrior began its tour of India in November, the international crew on board the ship expected the usual resistance and conflict that Greenpeace campaigners had come to …
Everyone loves a good cause. And helping the world's biggest slum metamorphose into a swish suburb is a great one just for its sheer pluck and potential. Located in the middle of Mumbai, the 432 acres of Dharavi straddle the western and eastern lines of the city. Any business district …
what do cities like Mumbai, Karachi, Sao Paulo and Johannesburg have in common besides their high population? A strong reliance on forests for their drinking water, reveals Running Pure, a study by the World Bank and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Around a third of the world's top 105 …
The quality of drinking water is plumbing new depths in Mumbai. Sample this. Not only is water in localities such as Chembur (east), Assisi Nagar and Dockyard Road turbid, it contains worms and mosquito larvae too. Also, while some parts of the city get faecal coliform-laced water, alkalinity is high …
This paper presents and discusses primary data from a survey of 1,070 households in four poor settlements in Mumbai comprising slum-and pavement-dwellers and squatters on the living environment and health conditions. The study attempts to examine the consequences of socio-economic and environmental factors in terms of income, literacy, sanitation and …
The news is out: water levels in Mumbai are over 15 per cent less than last year. It might seem routine but it has the city up in arms. Mumbaikars have hit the roads demonstrating on the painful summer that came in early this year. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) …
function openroad(){ var popurl="html/20030515_moreroads.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Foremost among the traditional approaches governments take is to increase existing road capacity (see table: More roads...). But how effective is this method? New roads and flyovers invite more traffic and get filled up within a few years. Experts argue that drivers are induced …
How is India responding to the crisis? In March 2003, the finance minister of Delhi, delivering his budget speech, promised more money so that the capital could become, as its chief minister has put it, "the flyover city of Asia". Think more road; give vehicles more space: this grand, now …
A ccording to the World Bankif gdp grows at 7-8 per cent a year over the next decadethe demand for transport will grow by at least 10 per cent a year. The worsening traffic situation and increasing travel demand has compelled a number of cities to at least put up …
Rows of human hands hanging on inside claustrophobic buses, trams and metros…Bodies packed like sardines, jostling against each other...Tempers at breaking point. And outside, more chaos - thousands of cars, jeeps, vans, two-wheelers, three-wheelers…all groaning through a choking haze of pollution in interminable traffic jams that test one"s patience and …
it is a clear sell-out. The Union ministry of road transport and highways (mrth) has given ground to truckers who ended their strike recently: the striking truckers had demanded a waiver on the proposed Mumbai High Court ban on 15-year-old commercial vehicles in the city. The ministry has helped them …
timely action by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( bmc) has led to the detection of 280 tonnes of contaminated alum in drinking water. Alum, used to purify the city's water, was contaminated with organic compounds such as chloroform and benzene. Both are carcinogenic in nature. The polluted alum was found …
Our houses gobble up energy and spew out carbon dioxide. Shocking, but true. Buildings, primarily residential and commercial facilities, are responsible for approximately 35 per cent of us greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. Ventilation and insulation are not given adequate emphasis in urban layouts. Consequently, urban sprawls manage to use more …
After we released our study on pesticide residues on bottled water, an experienced science journalist called me to verify something I had said in the press conference. He wanted to know if it was really true that the government had not laid down quantified standards for pesticide residues in drinking …
the rising incidence of malaria in Mumbai does not seem to be reason enough for the authorities to declare it a notifiable disease. Even as the death toll due to the disease was being chalked up, particularly in upmarket areas of the city, Subhash Salunke, director of health services, Maharashtra, …
The biggest garbage dump in Mumbai will be closed now, courtesy the Supreme Court. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the resident welfare association of Chincholi Bunder area where the dumpyard is located, the court ordered its closure as it was posing a serious health hazard. The …
After Delhi, it is Mumbai's turn. Taking a cue from the Supreme Court's directive on conversion of Delhi's bus fleet to CNG (compressed natural gas), the Mumbai High Court has in its final order favoured alternative fuels such as CNG and LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). It has almost prohibited the …
The data is so old it is almost obsolete. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has brought out its report on the incidence of cancer five years too late. For all that it is worth, the "Consolidated Report of the Population Based Cancer Registries' provides information on the incidence …
with the Mumbai High Court (hc) refusing to dilute its directive, transporters in the city went on a strike from March 17-21, 2002. On October 17, 2001, the court had ruled that all commercial vehicles more than 15 years old should either switch over to alternative fuels or be phased …
