Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has asked the railways to look for other sources of water to meet their daily requirements.
The Central and Western Railway require about 38.52 lakh litres of water of which the former consumes nearly 23.40 lakh litres to wash local train coaches.
Himachal High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to provide landfill site to the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) within four weeks near the location where the new bio-conversion plant was being set up.
KOLKATA 22 DEC: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will build 60 flats for economically challenged people within February, 2010 at Rajarghat off EM Bypass..
The flats will come up under the Basic Service For Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme and will be funded by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
There have been bad seasons before but poor monsoon has left the city facing its worst water crisis. As tempers rise and protests grow, Mumbai has enough to last just another 200 days
Mumbai: The BMC's order to stop supplying water to 1,000-odd parks and gardens in the city from March 2010 has put Mumbai's green cover in danger of further deterioration.
The campaign against polythene bags in the capital has so far largely been a Delhi government initiative. Now, the MCD has shown interest in taking up the campaign in a proactive way. It hopes to use the massive jurisdictional advantage it has, as it covers more than 95 per cent of the capital, to good effect.
Mumbai Plant trees and get rich. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in a bid to promote greenery in the city, will offer cash rewards to Mumbaikars who plant more trees. This despite the BMC projecting financial crisis for itself in coming years.
NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will soon be tabling a proposal to introduce a new policy under which cellular service providers would be barred from installing cell phone towers in residential areas.
Also, under the new policy those who have illegally set up cell phone towers would have to apply to the MCD for regularisation failing which the tower would be demolished.
NEW DELHI: The MCD has decided to rope in a private trust for procurement of 136 mobile health units. These mobile health units will be deployed in various parts of the Capital, with an emphasis on slums and semi-urban areas.
