Mumbai civic authorities
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has addressed the central environment ministry to acknowledge a regularization statement registered by Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in Mumbai following the most advanced 2018 announcement that agreements with installations in coastal zone regulation (CRZ) regions. The applications registered by the society against the April 2016 order of annihilation relinquished by the Bombay [...] Continue Reading »
The Mumbai civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), plans to restructure its water supply system to ensure equitable supply to all areas in the city. The BMC has decided that each person in the city should get at least 135 litres of water per day. Earlier, in 2009, it had set 90 litres per capita [...] Continue Reading »
Some Juhu citizens have been fighting to save their area from being flooded. The crisis came up after the civic storm water drains (SWD) department allowed a developer to cover and build a recreation ground on top of a section of Irla and Koldongri nullahs. NGOs have joined hands with the residents in their protests [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will undertake a pilot project of the newly adapted technology of geo-tagging all the garbage collection points in the city. The geo-tagging will help the BMC keep a close check on the garbage collection process. The tracking would be done with the help of GPS devices fitted in the garbage [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally taken steps to get a team of independent experts to conduct a technical audit of pothole repairs of Mumbai roads. The audit is to start from next week and it will examine why the BMC had failed to rid roads of potholes this monsoon despite introducing cold-mix technology [...] Continue Reading »
The newly constructed buildings in Mumbai lack rainwater harvesting system. The fact has been brought into notice by social activists. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) made it mandatory for the new buildings to have rain water harvesting system in 2007. The civil administration has allocated about Rs1 crore to the rain water harvesting cell under the [...] Continue Reading »
A public interest litigation (PIL) filed last month by a social activist has grabbed attention in Mumbai. The Mumbai resident moved the Bombay high court over 4,400 leases executed by the BMC, through which nearly 6.48 crore square feet of the city was leased to private entities. The PIL states that most of the land [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given a three-day deadline to engineers of the roads departments to inspect the major Ganpati routes in their jurisdiction. The engineers are asked to report all potholes that need to be attended to. They have been asked to report the potholes on the civic body’s website following which the [...] Continue Reading »
As per new initiatives taken by Briahmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC), the citizens of Mumbai will have a greater say in resolving civic issues at ward level. BMC officers have been asked to attend meetings conducted by the advanced locality management (ALM) and local area citizens committee (LACC). BMC commissioner Sitaram Kunte has come up with the [...] Continue Reading »
In order to tighten its grip over errant contractors, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to double the fine imposed on them if they fail to fill potholes in the stipulated time limit of 48 hours. Moreover, the civic body has also announced that five complaints against a contractor will lead to termination of [...] Continue Reading »
