The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will dig deep into its pockets to ensure clean and pristine beaches in the western suburban regions of the city. It has decided to spend Rs30,500 per day on the clean-up of three major beaches of Versova, Madh-Marve and Gorai-Manori, all of which are inland tourist attractions.
Mumbai could learn a lesson or two from this: 20 dying fresh water lakes in Thane have got a new lease of life, after the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) embarked upon a drive for environmental conservation of its lakes.
Welcoming the move of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) to provide 500 dustbins across the city, the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Parisad (AJYP) today said that unless the authorities initiated practical long-term measures to rid the city of the many ills plaguing it, the grandiose plans of beautifying the city would hold little meaning.
Delhi has 13 big and small industrial areas and the roads in most of these areas have not been repaired for years. For the first time, the MCD has come up with a concrete plan and will spend Rs 426 crore on their repair.
SMALL ENGINES MAKE BIG NOISE
The city has been breathing a lot easier ever since a majority of auto-rickshaws plying the road changed to CNG a couple of years ago. But a recent BMC study shows that there has been little respite from noise pollution caused by three-wheeler cargo carriers and passenger auto-rickshaws.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday decided to defer for now the awarding of contracts for their ambitious plan to convert the Deonar dumping ground partially into a green belt and the rest into a sanitary landfill site. The Rs 4,560-crore proposal had been earlier put before the standing committee for approval.
With their proposal for dumping of municipal waste at Naubasta Kala running into rough weather following protests by locals, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) and Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) have begun the search for a new site.
