The MCZMA appraised the project for a CRZ clearance and noted the violation, eight years after the construction started.

In rural areas, farmers to get four times the price of their land to be acquired.

Move aimed at ensuring no beneficiary can avail of free or concessional housing more than once.

In a relief to several stalled development projects across the state, the Union environment ministry has reconstituted a crucial state committee that screens proposals in the Coastal Regulation Zon

SECURING environment clearances for several road infrastructure works, mostly short intra-city flyovers and road-improvement projects, is currently a time-consuming task with the proposals having t

The likelihood of having a coastal road in Mumbai after the Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar expressed his willingness to positively consider it has cast a cloud of uncertainty on anoth

After the controversy-hit Lavasa and Aamby Valley, construction of Maharashtra’s next new lakeside hill township could begin soon in Pune’s Mulshi taluka, with the state environment authority grant

The city’s development authority’s plans of roping in corporates to beautify the Mithi river promenade inside the plush Bandra-Kurla complex are losing steam, as coastal regulation zone (CRZ) norms

Anticipating resistance in acquiring land for the developers’ sale component in the decade-old Dharavi revamp project, the authority in-charge has tweaked the draft development plan for the slum sp

Will process 2,500 tonnes of garbage from MMR daily, convert it to electricity.

By the end of 2015, MMRDA expects to commission a regional solid waste management plant at Taloja with a capacity to process 2,500 tonnes of solid waste produced in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) daily, and convert the waste into power. MMRDA is in the process of awarding a contract to a consortium of Ramky Enviro Engineers and China's Chongqing Sanfeng Environmental Industry Group to construct and operate the processing plant for 25 years. The construction of the plant will cost about Rs 500 crore.