In a bid to put an end to the city's water woes, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is considering to scrap the Gargai water project and instead concentrate on the Daman Ganga-Pinjal project, which is expected to provide 2,400 million litres per day (MLD) of water.
"Municipal commissioner Subodh Kumar is of the view that we must focus on big water projects like Daman Ganga-Pinjal and
Surat: If you plan to visit Daman and Silvassa to spend weekends with your family, abstain from eating fish and other staple seawater varieties. The Daman administration has advised people not to consume fish for some time, as they might be contaminated due to oil spill near the Mumbai harbour.
Surat: Come Sundays and there is not enough parking space on the approach to beaches of South Gujarat. But this Sunday the story is altogether different. Tourists preferred to stay away from Tithal, Umargam and Umarsadi beaches in Valsad and Devka beach in Daman due to the overpowering stink of chemical residue strewn all over after being washed ashore over the last week.
Narendra Plastic, one of the largest manufacturer and exporter of plastic packaging products in India, plans to invest over Rs 90 crore for setting up two new manufacturing units in Daman and Uttarakh
