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There are numerous trenches lying open across the city indicating a grim situation for the BMC before the rains set in moreover with barely seven days left to the official deadline to complete all road works. One out of every 5km of carriageways was dug up. And, the BMC doesn’t have exact data of how [...] Continue Reading »
An official says that the forest officers at the state level would be required to scrutinize applications within 10 days and if no questions are raised, the proposal is to be accepted under a new paper less approval mechanism that consists of state as well as central-level forest clearances. It is an eight stage process. [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body has started work to modify more than 1,000 roads. It will improve medians and footpaths while simultaneously taking up carriageway works. Nearly 3000 crore has been sanctioned for the road improvement project which is part of BMC’s master plan submitted to the Bombay high court last year. The BMC is searching new [...] Continue Reading »
The state housing authority has put brakes on reviewing stalled restoration contracts for some of the city’s oldest buildings and cracking the whip on delinquent developers, even though several decaying building collapses across the city. ‘No Objection Certificates’ (NOCs) for at least 18 cessed buildings have been cancelled by the repair and reconstruction board of [...] Continue Reading »
Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) is now thinking of disposing of its residential properties and plots after selling/leasing out its commercial properties last year. The consumer goods giant is focusing on selling these properties basically in the metro cities which can garner revenue of Rs 100 crore. About two dozen apartments and land parcels in posh [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai’s skyline is changing rapidly as more and more skyscrapers are soaring into the sky. On the backdrop of the city’s high population density, developers argue that high-rises are more convenient and hold the answer to the city’s housing problems. Until now, the 60-storied Imperial Towers at Tardeo which was built in 2010, is the [...] Continue Reading »
An empty four-storey building collapsed following a heavy rainfall in Mumbai. The building Gopal Bhavan, is situated in Mamlatdar Wadi in suburban Malad. Luckily, there were none living in the apartment as the residents had already been evacuated following the declaration of the structure as ‘dangerous‘ by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Sources say that five [...] Continue Reading »
