Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Vanashakti & Others Vs Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai & Others dated 15/04/2024. The matter related to removal of debris (construction and demolition waste) dumped at Mithi river, Mumbai. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), February …
Water at 75 locations of major rivers, such as Ganga, Yamuna, Chambal, Sone and Wainaganga are not fit for drinking, the Government said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The Central Water Commission (CWC) under the Water Resources Ministry, which monitors water quality at 396 stations located in all the …
Mumbai : Eight years after a deluge claimed 450 lives in the city in 2005, the ambitious revival of the choked Mithi river to check floods is far from complete. The deadline for the Rs 1,700-crore two-phase project undertaken by BMC and MMRDA was 2008. While widening and deepening of …
Mumbai: Even as the state government is running behind schedule to complete the development work on the 18-km long Mithi river, it has now approved an ambitious plan to increase the catchment height of Powai lake so that additionally collected rainwater could be infused to rejuvenate the polluted river, which …
The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) to determine within a month whether a proposed hoarding site in an area of mangroves on the Mahim Causeway falls within the Coastal Regulatory Zone-I. The court has also said until the MCZMA’s report comes in, …
Eighty percent of sewage in India is untreated and flows directly into the nation’s rivers, polluting the main sources of drinking water, a study by an environmental watchdog showed. Indian cities produce nearly 40 billion liters of sewage every day and barely 20 percent of it is treated, according to …
It is not just the Mithi river that is susceptible to degradation due to encroachment and dumping. There are at least two more rivers and six natural drains in the city that are highly vulnerable and in need of immediate attention, as per a recent study funded by the Mumbai …
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has claimed that it has completed the desilting of the Mithi river, removing 1.49 lakh cubic metres of silt from the river. MMRDA commissioner Rahul Asthana on Wednesday said they had cleaned a 6-km stretch of the river. “The rock blasting at Mahim …
To guard against any disaster situations this monsoon, the MMRDA opened its 24-hour Control Rooms on Friday, ahead of its pre-monsoon desiltating and Mithi-river deepening work. Five nodal officers will monitor the rooms to be managed by 35 officials in three shifts. “We have also asked all concerned to strictly …
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has laid down a detailed programme to avoid water logging in the monsoon at sites which are under its jurisdiction. Speaking to reporters on Monday, MMRDA commissioner Rahul Asthana said they would put up barricades at construction project sites like the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro …
After repeated squabbles with the civic administration over desilting of the Mithi river, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has now sent an ultimatum to the BMC that it will be doing the desilting work this year for the last time. Both agencies have been at loggerheads for the …
Rampant dumping of scrap into the Mithi at Kurla has undone all the effort to de-silt the river. The residents of Kapadia Nagar, Kurla (West), complained that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has started the work a bit too late to finish before monsoon. Besides, the work will …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has purchased a new robotic multi-purpose excavator machine for the desilting of major drains in the city, as well as the Mithi river. On Thursday, the sewerage operations department of the corporation demonstrated the machine’s operations for the first time. The excavator works as three …
MUMBAI: Satisfied with the performance of robotic multipurpose excavator to clean the nullahs, the BMC may go ahead and buy more of them. A decision on this is yet to be taken, but senior civic officials and the ruling alliance leaders expressed their satisfaction after seeing a demonstration of the …
The growth of water hyacinth-like plants in Mithi river near the international airport in Andheri has turned the stretch into a breeding ground for mosquitoes, complain civic activists. While activists blame water blockage due to on-going construction of two bridges (Lathia Rubber and MTNL) over the river in Chimatpada leading …
When the first set of detailed data from Census 2011, Houses, Households Amenities and Assets, was released a couple of weeks ago, there was much flinching at the fact that around half of all Indians still defecate in the open. The census data also showed that piped and treated drinking …
Indians know little about the water they use and the waste they discharge Water is life, and sewage tells its life story. This is the subject of the “Citizens’ Seventh Report on the State of India’s Environment”, Excreta Matters: How urban India is soaking up water, polluting rivers and drowning …
If a new report is to be believed, India is swimming in its own sewage and turning its rivers into drains for its ever-expanding cities. The Center for Science and Environment, a 22-year-old New Delhi-based advocacy and research organization, has just released its seventh report—this one entitled, “Excreta Matters: How …
MUMBAI: The Mithi River Development Project Phase 2 is set to get a little more expensive. The civic administration has floated a Rs 1.15 crore proposal to allow the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) to check for the presence of rocks on the riverbed. The proposal will be tabled …
More than six years after it was proposed, the civic administration has now asked the Central Government to fund the Rs 1,675 crore Mithi River Project, with a view to ease the financial burden. So far the the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the MMRDA have spent Rs 827 crore …
The stalled infrastructure projects in Mumbai and around, according to a PIL before the Bombay High Court, are a result of the lack of a reserved place for dumping construction waste. The future of the construction business within the limits of Mumbai and its neighbouring municipal corporations is at risk, …
