MUMBAI: The BMC is proposing to undertake a comprehensive cloud-seeding project at the catchments supplying water to the city. The project, which would be carried out over a period of 60 days and at a cost of Rs 12 crore, would be in addition to a seeding experiment the civic body may carry out this week.

Mumbai: Water supply to Mumbai will be reduced by at least 200 million litres daily (MLD) in the coming 48 hours.

Mumbai: Time is running out for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to find a solution for reducing pollution caused by carcinogenic gases emanating from the Deonar dumping ground.

MUMBAI: Even as the rains remain elusive in catchment areas and contractors promoting cloud seeding technology throng BMC corridors, civic officials are not very keen to woo the rain-bearing clouds artificially.

Earlier officers of Health Department had focused their attention on trenches in dumping ground but soon they lost interest. Now the number of vehicles coming to dump garbage in trenches at dumping ground has dropped from 150 to 80 to 85 trips of vehicles. Consequently it is apparent that vehicles lifting garbage are throwing some garbage in open grounds of City instead of dumping ground.

The high court has asked the MCD to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to a woman, whose husband was killed when a stray bull had attacked him in 2005
In a recent order, Justice S. Ravindra Bhat directed the MCD to pay the compensation as the incident occurred due to the civic body

New Delhi: After the success of its pilot project in Lutyens Bungalow Zone and Rashtrapati Bhawan, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) plans to expand the segregated home garbage disposal plan to all NDMC areas.

As many as 600 volunteers from different states will arrive here to

With the rapid growth of urban localities in the city, the gap between the demand and supply of water has been widening. Avas Foundation, a city based NGO, has drawn up an action plan for raising awareness in the city regarding the need for economical and judicious use of water and its conservation, including adoption of measures, such as rain water harvesting etc.

MUMBAI: The BMC is carrying out soil testing work in the Tulsi lake area, which falls within the core zone of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). Interestingly, both park officials and those in the civic body claim ignorance about it initially. No one even has any clue about who gave permission for the work, or if any such permission was granted at all.