open spaces in Mumbai
As per a study by Praja Foundation, the citizens in Mumbai are not satisfied by the services provided by the civic body and corporators. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has not shown any good performance and according to the report, average citizen satisfaction levels with the civic body’s performance was only 58%. Around 29,852 complaints were [...] Continue Reading »
With the fast pacing growth in the city with high rise, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no idea of the number of open spaces or plots in Mumbai. The civic body which is an authority body, supposed to keep records of all the plots available in the city, but fails to do so. It does [...] Continue Reading »
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to launch a project to increase and improve open spaces in the city. The BMC has allocated Rs. 1 crore in the civic budget for 2012-13 for consultation to carry out the Mumbai’s Open Space project. The main objective is to add open spaces to the city. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has urged the public representatives to make a generous move to divert a portion of MP, MLA funds towards maintenance of open spaces. The Corporation is in need of fund to maintain the open spaces and in previous years the BMC has lost open land either because it failed to [...] Continue Reading »
After the caretaker scheme has been implemented, the adoption of the open spaces in Mumbai is getting tougher and costlier! The civic authority had earlier proposed to reduce the minimum bidding price but the groups which take care of open spaces feel it is the adoption policy which is stringent. Bandra Bandstand Residents’ Trust which [...] Continue Reading »
