In an effort to ensure 100 per cent segregation of waste in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to start a ‘public awareness campaign’ through which the civic body ai

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday gave a fresh push for creating a national market for agricultural produce and planned reforms in food grain management through “restructuring” the FC

With another water shortage season in the city, the PMC administration is pushing for its plan to revamp the water supply system envisaging the establishment of a system for equitable and metered w

In a move set to increase protection of wetlands in Maharashtra, the state wetland committee in its first meeting has decided to speed up proposals on converting at least nine important wetlands in

Modification to the 2011 Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification to allow reclamation for the Coastal Road Project and waiver of the joint venture that requires the state to have a 51 per cent s

Of the 867 water contamination complaints received in the first five months (January to May) of the current year by the BMC, 79 per cent — the highest — has been registered from the city.

After a delay of over seven months, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will initiate its ambitious Water Improvement Development Project (WIDP) for equitable distribution and effective ma

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

For the first time, the roughly 104 sq km Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) at Borivali will have a watershed management plan, set to improve the park’s water-retaining capacity.

The status of waste management in the state is extremely poor and municipal corporations are not being serious about this issue.