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 …
Purpose is to place monetary value on services — absorption of carbon dioxide, cleansing oxygen and supplying water Authorities at Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) have started a study to assess how much the park contributes to the ecosystem of Mumbai and the well-being of its residents. The aim of …
The city council has for five months been dawdling with the task of declaring silence zones in the city, even after getting the state urban development department's nod for notifying 110 such zones across Mumbai. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had last year submitted its list of 110 fresh silence …
In Mumbai, of every three public toilet seats, two are for men and just one for women. A white paper on civic issues released by NGO Praja Foundation says that as of December 31, 2017, there were 10,778 toilets for men against 3,909 for women across the city, a disparity …
MUMBAI: Dengue, in rare instances, has been known to cause blindness. A 23-year-old accountant from the western suburbs suffered from this relatively uncommon complication in November last year and is yet to regain her vision completely after four months and three surgeries. The woman, who didn’t wish to be identified, …
Worli resident files criminal complaint alleging an ambulance passes through silent zone with siren Mumbai: A doctor and a trustee of a charitable trust, which runs an ambulance service, has moved the city civil and sessions court seeking to quash an order by a magistrate, who issued them notices because …
MUMBAI: The most common complaint for which a Mumbaikar visits the BMC’s 175 dispensaries is acute respiratory illness (ARI). The civic morbidity survey shows that respiratory illnesses, including cold, cough or viral/bacterial infection, account for 20% of the patient load at the dispensaries. The BMC’s executive health officer, Dr Padmaja …
Activist Stalin Dayanand alleged that the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is building walls on the Oshiwara river in Aarey Colony and preventing its natural flow. Drawing attention to an alleged attempt to concretise a river in the city, activist Stalin Dayanand, has written to several government agencies on …
The Bombay High Court today directed the Maharashtra government to scrupulously follow its direction to protect the identities of people lodging complaints of noise pollution. A division bench of Justices A S Oka and Riyaz Chagla was hearing a bunch of petitions seeking strict implementation of the Noise Pollution Rules. …
Worlds cleanest petrol and diesel are now being supplied in Delhi after state-owned oil firms advanced rollout of Euro-VI grade fuel by two years in a bid to combat alarming levels of air pollution. Since yesterday, Delhi has become the first city in the country to leapfrog from Euro-IV grade …
The move comes after the Union Environment Ministry told the Lok Sabha in a written statement last year that industrial effluents and household sewage flowing into the Powai lake had raised its pollution levels, eight times above safe standards. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has shortlisted a contractor to measure …
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Monday directed that a report by a two-member committee appointed to check allegations of ecological damage by developers of Nahar Amrit Shakti township in Chandivli be placed before it. A division bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Riyaz Chagla was hearing a public interest litigation …
“We are yet to ascertain the cause of the fire. But, it was a minor fire, and people need not worry. Our teams have managed to get the fire under control,” said Chief Fire Officer Prabhat Rahangdale. As temperatures continued to stay well above normal in Mumbai, a fire broke …
The maximum temperature recorded for Sunday was 33.2 degrees, at par with the normal average for March. Mumbai: The city witnessed a dip in the air quality on Sunday with Mumbai’s Air Quality Index (AQI), the indicator that measures air pollution, recorded as 237. The AQI comes under “poor” category. …
MUMBAI: A 500-acre sprawl of privately-held land in Goregaon (W) has had no mangroves since 2006, says a state panel tasked to determine if the site was reclaimed and mangroves destroyed. The panel took 2006 as the cut-off date for its study as directives notifying mangroves as ‘protected forests’ came …
Shantaram Bhoye walked for six days to cover the 180km from Nashik to Mumbai. Hailing from Orambe village in Surgana, Nashik, Bhoye tills three acres for a living. But, the land is not in his name. He said he didn’t get something as basic as a ration card because of …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry Vs Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai & Others dated 15/03/2018 regarding constructions in the city of Mumbai. Supreme Court lifts the ban on construction in Mumbai imposed by the Bombay High Court with a …
NEW DELHI: As part of its dedicated air pollution abatement programme for 100 polluting cities, the Centre has formulated a National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to fight the menace through a long-term strategy. The programme focuses on target oriented approach with specific time-lines to reduce various pollutants in cities including …
MUMBAI: About 3,600 patients with TB died in Mumbai in the last three years, said state health minister Deepak Sawant in the legislative assembly on Wednesday. In a heated discussion on the disease, the minister said that over 20,000 patients succumbed to TB in the same period across the state. …
This study examines the political economy of road safety in India, with a focus on Mumbai. The idea is to identify the underlying factors embedded in the political, economic and social framework of the city which influence road safety. This case study is part of a broader project that analyses …
An estimated 1.25 million people are killed and a staggering 50 million are injured in traffic collisions each year. Yet, road safety remains a remarkably low political priority in cities around the world. In many cases, road safety is seen to be in direct conflict with other priorities, such as …
