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 …
At a time when the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are known not to have the best of relations, the former has agreed to hand over tenements to the BMC to rehabilitate its Project Affected Persons (PAPs) at no cost. Earlier, the authority …
The project to prevent flooding of the Mithi river has received a boost with the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) recently according CRZ clearance for a 13-km retaining wall along the much-abused river. The clearance was needed to build the wall taking into consideration the tide lines of the …
The film begins with images of a gushing stream, birds chirping and a typical audio overlay of the santoor that captures any pristine environment. It then cuts to a lament; the story of the Mithi river hard done by. The filmmakers have done well to capture the state of the …
MUMBAI: The state government and the municipal corporation have to join hands and ensure that the flood prevention work on the Mithi river is carried out fully if Mumbaikars are to be spared the same fate which overtook the city in 2005 resulting in chaos and deaths of almost 1,000 …
With barely 45 days to go before the monsoon begins, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has woken up to realise that a part of their responsibility is also to clean up the Mithi river. The authority has now called for tenders worth a whopping Rs30 crore and expects …
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is undertaking desilting of the Mithi river and Vakola Nullah. The desilting will cost the authority an estimated Rs 30 crore. MMRDA officials said that this was part of the work being undertaken to improve the overall discharging capacity of the river, which …
After scrapping its earlier project of oxygenating a stretch on the Mithi to minimise stench emanating from the severely polluted river, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to now restart the exercise. While work is still on to clean the river and and revamp its banks and …
MUMBAI: The crime branch of the police on Wednesday invoked the stringent Environment Protection Act on six oil mafiosi arrested last month in connection with an adulteration racket. The police had written to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), asking it to inspect illegal godowns in the Kurla-Kalina belt since …
Kartikeya | TNNMumbai: That the Mithi has been reduced to a filthy nullah is well-known. However, now a report of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) shows that Maharashtra has the largest number of polluted river water stretches in the country. The CPCB draws up a list on the basis …
Mumbai: The Mahim coastline is fast disappearing, claim fishermen residing by the seafront. On Monday afternoon, sea water came gushing in and claimed portions of the land. Chandrakant Keni, chairman, Mahim Nakva Macchimaar Sahakari Society, a representative outfit for the local fishermen, said that a makeshift asphalt road constructed to …
Mumbai The Mumbai Metropolitan Region development Authority (MMRDA) has moved a step closer to Mithi River development with the construction of a wooded bund on its banks as per the recommendations of the Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune. The Rs 50-lakh development of the wooded bund on …
Mumbai Five years after the deluge on July 26, 2005, a public meeting held at the Maharashtra Nature Park, Mahim, to discuss the status of the Mithi river and the work done by officials to combat future floods, saw just a handful audience. Organised by NGOs Jal Biradari and Mithi …
MUMBAI: A Rs 1.2-crore experiment has not been able to rid the Mithi of its stink. So the MMRDA is back to its favourite olfactory laboratory in the city, the bed of the Mithi. The MMRDA will commission on July 23 a new experiment to stop the stench at the …
mumbai the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) told the court on Thursday that the expert committee appointed to suggest ways to make Mithi river encroachment-free, has gone
TOI Spot Check Before Rains Reveals River And Nullahs Are Clogged At Several Points Viju B | TNN Mumbai: Though the monsoon is expected to arrive in less than two weeks, work on desilting and widening the Mithi River is far from complete. Not only that, a spot check by …
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 …
AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER AWAITS MUMBAI AS SLUMS PROLIFERATE ALL ALONG ITS CREEKS, KILLING INVALUABLE MANGROVES Standing on the terrace of his residential complex at Link Road, Harish Pandey points to the twokilometre-long slum settlement snaking through the lush green mangroves adjoining Gorai creek. Around 8,000 illegal shacks have come up …
