Mumbai
The senior forest officials approved an ambitious scheme to plant 100 crore saplings across the state in Maharashtra. The principal forest secretary Praveensingh Pardesi reported saying that they have come up with a comprehensive plan to plant 100 cr saplings within a year. However the government agencies are initiating NGOs, educational institutions and entrepreneurs for the [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) ordered for the power distributors in Mumbai to supply power to the Group Housing Societies (GHS) in bulk. Also to consider GHS as franchise which also has many possibilities for common power consumers. MERC has made a mandatory rule for the power suppliers to sign a franchisee agreement including [...] Continue Reading »
The rising interest rates in Mumbai have an impact on home loans. Home loan borrowings have gone up by 21% since March 2010. The property prices have remained relatively subdued in several sectors. Reserve Bank of India have been tracing the latest data that have aggregated home loans by the commercial banks rose 21% till [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is on a new drive ahead in maintaining the Mumbai city. The concerned civic bodies have taken initiative of two new drives in aiming the city being free from garbage issues. “Zero garbage drive” is a new mantra in Mumbai now. The frequency of garbage collection from all over the city [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has handed over the Rs 577 crore road contract to nine contractors of the same company which has been taking over the bid from past 22 years. The other contractors were disqualified for submitting fake documents. The remaining eight contractors are in low feel for quoting bids below rates. The Vitraag [...] Continue Reading »
The World Bank (WB) has joined hands with the Indian banks and also India Development Foundation and the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility to fund for the infrastructure development in cities in India. Vijay Kelkar the chairman the finance commission has been given the initiative to investigate on the excess public land in India. One [...] Continue Reading »
The chief minister Vasantrao Naik a few decades ago reported over the land expansion of Mumbai over the sea coast reclaiming that the Cuffe Parade and Nairman Point sea coast. This has resulted on the population surviving over this sea coast. These community people have been paying price for the Naik’s decision. The chief minister [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is introducing a set of tender rules to stop illegal bidding encouraged from the builders in Mumbai. The civic body is ahead to takeover this tender contract and the security deposit given by the road contractors will only be given after the bidding documents are checked throughly. Satish Badve the [...] Continue Reading »
The civic officials in Mumbai have found to be running loss to effectively follow up the waste disposal system, nearly 6,000 odd tones of waste that can be re-cycled and also the non-degradable that are dumped frequently. The sites where the dumping is encouraged is traced out to be illegal. The dearth waste being dumped [...] Continue Reading »
In Mumbai there is frequent complaint over the issues of tardy roads all over the city. Henceforth to give a pause to all the issues related to road development Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has already bid orders for the improvement of the roads in Mumbai city. This authority is ahead decided to spend [...] Continue Reading »
