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Beautification of The Gateway of India is a sham, say activists
The beautification plan of the Gateway of India has been not executed well, allege residents and activists group. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had set a deadline of July 2008 to complete the work.The up-gradation and the improvement plans proposed to mend the structure, fix the roads leading to the monument, relocate the travel stal...
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Bandra schoolkids audit local area councillors' work
Tuesday morning in Bandra saw a group of school students toiling up and down the streets to verify the work undertaken by municipal councillors in the past two years. Thirty students from St Elias High school marched with their teacher tallying every penny spent by the municipal councillor in their area.The information under RTI revealed that the m...
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Girls born in civic hospitals to get free BEST passes soon
Girls in the city will soon have free travel passes till they complete their school education. In a move to promote education girls and promote women's emancipation, the Shiv Sena led Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed to issue free BEST passes to every girl child born in civic run hospitals.The travel passes will be valid till a...
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BMC spends over twice the amount needed for road repair: RTI
How much does it cost to mend city roads? Information under the RTI has divulged that maintenance and repair work for a kilometre stretch amounts to Rs50 lakh. With a total 1900km roads under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) jurisdiction, it should cost the agency Rs950 crore to maintain the roads. However, in the last three years...
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Mumbai: Drain repairs damage Dadar roads
Shoddy work by the stormwater drains department (SWD) has once again left city roads in a miserable state. Stretches on three roads in Dadar have sunk in after repairs of box drains were carried out by the SWD.In July this year, the box cement drains were converted into pipe drains at Ghanti Road, Dinshaw Master Road and Jahangir Vima Road in Dadar...
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Mumbai: 11-year-old dies after falling into open manhole
An 11-year-old boy died after he fell into a 30-feet deep manhole at Mariamma Nagar in Worli on Monday evening. Tushar Shailesh Jadhav was flying a kite when he slipped into the uncovered manhole. Firemen struggled hard with locals to fish out his body, but it was found 15 hours later floating at Love Grove pumping station a kilometre away. "On Mon...
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Mumbai: Baby stealing continues; security lapse under scanner
The BMC continued to face wrath on the third day after a two-year-old infant was stolen from civic-run VN Desai hospital in Vile Parle on Friday.On Monday, a delegation from Mumbai Mahila Agadhi led by Shaina NC, a BJP national executive member, accused the civic body of negligence and met additional municipal commissioner Ashish Kumar Singh to sub...
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Beautification of The Gateway of India is a sham, say activists
The beautification plan of the Gateway of India has been not executed well, allege residents and activists group. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had set a deadline of July 2008 to complete the work.The up-gradation and the improvement plans proposed to mend the structure, fix the roads leading to the monument, relocate the travel stal...
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Bandra schoolkids audit local area councillors' work
Tuesday morning in Bandra saw a group of school students toiling up and down the streets to verify the work undertaken by municipal councillors in the past two years. Thirty students from St Elias High school marched with their teacher tallying every penny spent by the municipal councillor in their area.The information under RTI revealed that the m...
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Girls born in civic hospitals to get free BEST passes soon
Girls in the city will soon have free travel passes till they complete their school education. In a move to promote education girls and promote women's emancipation, the Shiv Sena led Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed to issue free BEST passes to every girl child born in civic run hospitals.The travel passes will be valid till a...
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BMC spends over twice the amount needed for road repair: RTI
How much does it cost to mend city roads? Information under the RTI has divulged that maintenance and repair work for a kilometre stretch amounts to Rs50 lakh. With a total 1900km roads under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) jurisdiction, it should cost the agency Rs950 crore to maintain the roads. However, in the last three years...
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Mumbai: Drain repairs damage Dadar roads
Shoddy work by the stormwater drains department (SWD) has once again left city roads in a miserable state. Stretches on three roads in Dadar have sunk in after repairs of box drains were carried out by the SWD.In July this year, the box cement drains were converted into pipe drains at Ghanti Road, Dinshaw Master Road and Jahangir Vima Road in Dadar...
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Mumbai: 11-year-old dies after falling into open manhole
An 11-year-old boy died after he fell into a 30-feet deep manhole at Mariamma Nagar in Worli on Monday evening. Tushar Shailesh Jadhav was flying a kite when he slipped into the uncovered manhole. Firemen struggled hard with locals to fish out his body, but it was found 15 hours later floating at Love Grove pumping station a kilometre away. "On Mon...
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Mumbai: Baby stealing continues; security lapse under scanner
The BMC continued to face wrath on the third day after a two-year-old infant was stolen from civic-run VN Desai hospital in Vile Parle on Friday.On Monday, a delegation from Mumbai Mahila Agadhi led by Shaina NC, a BJP national executive member, accused the civic body of negligence and met additional municipal commissioner Ashish Kumar Singh to sub...
