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 …
OUR understanding of Indian cities— their history, geography, sociology, politics— is seriously limited. At the time of its Independence, India was primarily a rural country. The government invested heavily in understanding rural India. Take the case of the adivasis. The government assigned sociologists and anthropologists to understand the Scheduled Tribes; …
What led you to file the public interest litigation (pil)? On July 26, 2005, there was a deluge in Mumbai. It caught the administration unawares; all utility services broke down. I was one of those stranded, who spent the night under a flyover. I started wading back home at about …
Until five years ago very few people in Mumbai were aware of the Mithi river running through it. Then, in the monsoon of 2005 it flooded, drowning 500 people. With the devastation it erupted into public consciousness, dark and stinking. Ever since the authorities have been trying to revive it. …
Mumbai Nearly 75 Mumbaiites gathered near Mithi River to participate in the Wild River dance contest. Citizens, who gathered at Vakola nulla, recorded their dance on video cameras. The recordings will be uploaded on the website of International Rivers, a Berkeley-based welfare group working to save the rivers of the …
MUMBAI: Prashant Kolwadkar, a resident of Ashtavinayak Apartment, Bandra (E), cannot open the window close to his dining table even at breakfast time. His Kalanagar friend Ajit Verma also has a similar problem. To blame are the sudden swarm of mosquitoes flooding the area as if it were the monsoon. …
The historic Panvel (or Ulve) creek gets special mention in the Bombay Gazette records. Centuries ago the creek used to have pearls on its sandy bed and was a focal point of trade and commerce with Persia. Today, the creek is mined for a different kind of treasure
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday appointed a three-member expert committee to study the tidal movement of the Mithi river after construction of a 300-metre long wall on the Vakola Nalla. The committee, which has been told to submit a report in four week, will also look at the …
Mumbai The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have approached the Union Urban Development Ministry once again for financial assistance to the Mithi river rejuvenation project. The joint proposal was sent to the Ministry in the last week of December. The demand is for …
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has given the Mumbai International Airport Ltd (Mial) an ultimatum. In a recent meeting, the agency said that it won
Mumbai Chief Secretary J P Dange reviewed the progress of desilting, deepening and widening of Mithi river on Sunday along with Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya. Dange said,
Mumbai As part of its effort to develop a stretch of Mithi river as a tourist spot , the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Friday began the process of infusing oxygen into the river to control its stink. The metropolitan commissioner of MMRDA, Ratnakar Gaikwad said:
MUMBAI: Environmentalists are furious at the manner in which MMRDA has laid utility lines on pavements, as the contractor has dumped truckloads of the debris on the mangrove plantation in the Bandra-Kurla Complex. Rishi Aggarwal of Mangroves Society of India (Mumbai Chapter) said, "When I was passing by this area, …
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has come up with an alternative method of protecting the Mithi river from encroachment, reclamation and siltation, after environmentalists protested against the proposal for concrete walls in a coastal regulation zone. Although the MMRDA terms its new wall-being built using the Gabion method-eco-friendly, …
This could be yet another Mithi controversy brewing. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has constructed a temporary road right at the mouth of the river near the Mahim Causeway. A senior MMRDA official said that the road would cease to exist after the completion of the rock blasting …
BMC, MMRDA Officials Grope For Solution; Blame Each Other Manthan K Mehta | TNN Mumbai: The Tiger does not like the stench from the Mithi. And BMC and MMRDA officials have now put their thinking caps on to prevent the smell from reaching Matoshree. BMC officials said on Thursday that …
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to revise the danger level of Mithi River from 2.7 metres to 3 metres. Stating that the Mithi improvement project has facilitated faster flow of the river, civic officials said, there is no threat to the hutments and structures adjoining Mithi …
Residents of Mumbai hit the panic mode today as the Mithi river, flowing through its suburbs, breached its danger mark, thus reviving memories of the July 2005 floods that claimed over 150 lives. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said this afternoon that its disaster management cell was working on emergency mode …
Siddhesh Inamdar MUMBAI: The Mithi river, whose flooding had brought Mumbai to a standstill during the deluge in 2005, threatened to go out of control on Tuesday, following heavy rains since the previous evening. In Kurla, a low-lying area, 140 hutment dwellers from Kranti Nagar were evacuated by fire service …
MUMBAI: The Mithi could pose a serious threat to life and property in case of heavy rain. Although the former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had approved the widening of the Mithi at CST bridge near Kurla up to 100 m in the aftermath of the July 26, 2005 deluge, a …
