Category: urban development
Mumbai News: BMC Invites Tender For 10-Year Operation And Maintenance of Aspirational Public Toilets Despite Stay Order
Despite a stay order on the construction of aspiration toilets at seven places in Mumbai, the BMC on Tuesday invited a tender for appointing a contractor for operation and maintenance for these toilets for the next 10 years.
The crumbling gate of Anarkali Bazaar
I In Old Anarkali Bazaar stands the shop named Yousuf Falooda. In the gali immediately behind it, an old arch of small bricks survives, with a plaque above its entrance. An initial photographic examination suggested the arch might date from the British era. Yet the small bricks, coarse.
Mumbai: Central Railway Sidelines Blueprint To Triple Suburban Train Services, Despite Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Praising Sector-Based Plan
The plan, presented to Vaishnaw last year and praised for its scope, has not been taken forward by the Central Railway (CR). It was absent from the set of solutions CR submitted to the Bombay High Court earlier this year during hearings on crowding and accidents on suburban trains, an omission that has raised eyebrows, especially after the Mumbra tragedy.
Mumbai News: BMC Clarifies On Gaothan, Koliwada & Adivasi Pada Boundaries In Development Plan
The municipal body clarified this in response to statements from citizens’ groups that only 52 of the 189 gaothans in the city have been marked on the DP. The chief engineer (DP) said that under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966, the urban development department approved the DP for the Greater Mumbai area 2034 in a government notification on May 8, 2018.