With the pilot effort at cleansing the Mithi River using a microbial technology having purified a considerable amount of water and drastically reduced its odour, the city’s development authority

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

NEERI scientists believe continued efforts by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to take action against polluting industries will improve the quality further in the coming years.

The corporation has narrowed down on a consortium of Indo-French consultancy firm STUP Consultants Pvt Ltd and multinational consultants Ernst & Young.

Mumbai: The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the state pollution board to ensure that the Mithi, Waduli, Ulhas and Patalganga rivers be restored to pure forms.

Dutch Firm To Assess Impact And Feasibility

Mumbai: A governmental body is resuscitating plans needing large-scale reclamation of land from the Arabian Sea—including expansion of the financial centre at Nariman Point—by commissioning studies to assess their environmental and social impact.

The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal has ordered a stay on blasting on the Mithi riverbed till an environment impact assessment (EIA) report is prepared.

The report, the bench said, is necessary in order to locate whether blasting on the riverbed is likely to cause adverse impact on Mithi and its ecology. “We are of the opinion that activities of blasting should be appropriately evaluated by the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA).

All the 239 polluting industries on the banks of Mithi river are to be shut down with immediate effect, said the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday.