After the commissioning of a series of flyovers permitting a signal-free drive from South Mumbai to the eastern suburbs, the state government is now working on a plan to provide respite from traffic snarls along the arterial roads in the western suburbs.

As many as 19 trees will be felled by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike for widening the Sankey Tank Road.

Doomed: Trees marked for felling to facilitate widening of the Sankey Tank Bund Road. The trees are all set for an auction on Wednesday at 11 am.

Under the ambitious slum rehabilitation scheme of the state government, 43,000 slum dwellers will be handed over flats within the next four years in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Allegations of corruption and mismanagement have been raised against the slum rehabilitation authority (SRA), mainly regarding the delay in handing over the flats.

After five persons died of malaria this month, corporators pulled up the Brihhanmumbai Municipal Corporation for lack of action to prevent the rise in malaria cases.