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Corporators, ministers, and even the chief minister have questioned the BMC’s efforts in repairing the potholes. Potholes have become a major point of argument among the political parties in the civic body. Bad roads are being discussed at every civic body meeting, and a few times, the opposition (Congress-NCP) staged walkouts. The issue has become [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC (Mumbai corporation) has given assurance that potholes and bad patches will be filled up by August 15. Our officials will carry out road repairs before the start of Ganesh Chaturthi. Since it has been raining continuously, we could not do it so far, but now there is a dry patch,” additional municipal commissioner [...] Continue Reading »
Corporators say that the change in the development control rules (DCR) and plan to do away with the civic chief’s discretionary powers and bring lift spaces, flower beds, ducts, upper-level car parking, voids and so on, under chargeable FSI, will hurt the common man. While the builders are angry that the BMC has decided to [...] Continue Reading »
BMC Mumbai sinks Rs 64 Lakh in renovation of a half-acre park in Sion Mumbai. The shoddy work has already left much of the facilities unusable. Local corporator Upendra Doshi billed the BMC Rs 9.52 lakh for carpeting H B Shivdasani Udyan, the public park opposite SIES College, Sion (West), with red earth, revealed an [...] Continue Reading »
The Byculla plot is occupied by 11 dilapidated municipal tenanted buildings constructed after 1940 with 278 tenants of Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) as well as 162 slumdwellers. BMC has decided to call for public bids to benefit tenants as well as boost its coffers while developing its property at Saat Rasta, Byculla, the Bombay High [...] Continue Reading »
The Juhu Citizens’ Welfare Group (JCWG), an umbrella body of 18 advanced locality management groups , has supervised garbage collection patterns in the area. On Thursday, a group of locals gave a PowerPoint presentation in front of civic solid waste management officials on how to keep Juhu clean. Following the presentation , officials from the [...] Continue Reading »
on Day 1 of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Zero-Garbage Week, a total of 150 unauthorized waste dumps in the city were identified. The drive, to go on till May 8, is not only aimed at keeping the city litter-free,but also studying the patterns of garbage generation so that the routes of waste collection vehicles can [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sold the 105 lakh kg of seized plastic bags to a private firm for Rs 25 lakh for recycling them to make thick plastic bags. The BMC had seized plastic goods products thinner than 50 microns in raids and stored them in 24 godowns across the city. After the deluge [...] Continue Reading »
If your builder going out of the way to offer a mouth-watering deal, trudge carefully or else you will end up inviting troubles home, literally. Resident of Joy Sapphire apartments in Juhu-mumbai gets BMC notice for constructing an unauthorized lift and for occupying a part of terrace. According to sources, the builder had apparently lured [...] Continue Reading »
BMC to recycle, sell water for use in hosps, gardens The civic body has plans to improve the conditions of marine life and save on potable water for citizens. Sewage will be given secondary treatment and it will not be discharged into the sea. The civic body also plans to generate electricity from recycled water [...] Continue Reading »
