At a time when the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are known not to have the best of relations, the former has agreed to ha
The project to prevent flooding of the Mithi river has received a boost with the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) recently according CRZ clearance for a 13-km retaining wall along the much-abused river. The clearance was needed to build the wall taking into consideration the tide lines of the river.
MUMBAI: The state government and the municipal corporation have to join hands and ensure that the flood prevention work on the Mithi river is carried out fully if Mumbaikars are to be spared the same fate which overtook the city in 2005 resulting in chaos and deaths of almost 1,000 people.
A study report by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) has pointed out that though a sum of Rs 1,600 cro
With barely 45 days to go before the monsoon begins, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has woken up to realise that a part of their responsibility is also to clean up the Mithi river.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is undertaking desilting of the Mithi river and Vakola Nullah. The desilting will cost the authority an estimated Rs 30 crore. MMRDA officials said that this was part of the work being undertaken to improve the overall discharging capacity of the river, which had flooded in 2005.
After scrapping its earlier project of oxygenating a stretch on the Mithi to minimise stench emanating from the severely polluted river, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to now restart the exercise.
While work is still on to clean the river and and revamp its banks and retaining walls, the MMRDA has now invited proposals not only to oxygenate the river wa
MUMBAI: The crime branch of the police on Wednesday invoked the stringent Environment Protection Act on six oil mafiosi arrested last month in connection with an adulteration racket.
The police had written to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), asking it to inspect illegal godowns in the Kurla-Kalina belt since mafia activity caused pollution in the Mithi river.
Mumbai: The Mahim coastline is fast disappearing, claim fishermen residing by the seafront. On Monday afternoon, sea water came gushing in and claimed portions of the land.
