Plastics body has recycle plan
The All India Plastic Manufacturers
The All India Plastic Manufacturers
MUMBAI: After asking bulk consumers, clubs, gardens and hotels to make arrangements for their own sources of water, the BMC has now announced that it will discontinue supply to the city
Pune The Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) under JNNURM was to bring with it 117 kilometres of bicycle tracks giving fresh life to non-motorised transport (NMT) in the city. Accordingly, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had set up a cell two years ago to carry forward the NMT through its extension programme but the project has failed to take off.
Mumbai The state health department will seek 2,500 doses of H1N1 vaccines from the Centre for the immunisation of healthcare professionals exposed to the virus.
<p>The Sardar Sarovar Dam reached a height of 121.92 m in 2006 and at this height the dam has enough water to generate most of the promised benefits - irrigation, drinking water, and electricity. However, currently only 30% of the targeted villages receive regular water supplies, less than 20% of the canal network has been constructed and power generation remains well below the generation capacity reached. Even as the dam construction nears completion, rehabilitation of several thousand families is poor or incomplete. This, for a project that has had clearly laid out legal mandates to alleviate human and environmental costs, and has been under continuous public scrutiny and Supreme Court monitoring.</p>
Proposal Stuck At Feasibility Stage, Focus On 2010 Projects Megha Suri Singh | TNN
INDIAN EXPRESS/MUMBAI/29/01/10 http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/gowth-plan-for-city/572767/ The government on Thursday approved the annual plan for Mumbai and the suburbs. Municipal Commissioner and Collectors of both districts advised to avoid duplication of work, Finance Minister Sunil Tatkare said. Highlights: TOTAL OUTLAY Rs 49.80 crore, Mumbai city
Mumbai The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has proposed to the government that the Mumbai Urban Transport Project
Mumbai Manufacturers of plastic below 50 microns will face instant arrest and citizens carrying the thin polythene will be fined up to Rs 100, under a new set of restrictions proposed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
Mumbai: The historic monorail rake that did the first test run in Mumbai on Republic Day will not stay in the city for long. Though it is one of the 15 monorail trains that will run between Jacob Circle and Chembur in the city, for now it will be taken back to Malaysia by infrastructure giant Scomi for further testing.
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday appointed a three-member expert committee to study the tidal movement of the Mithi river after construction of a 300-metre long wall on the Vakola Nalla. The committee, which has been told to submit a report in four week, will also look at the effects the wall construction has on the surrounding mangroves.
Mumbai: The ban on polythene bags may get extended beyond 50 microns. The civic administration, which was recently asked by the government to formulate a draft suggesting revisions to the existing ban, is likely to recommend the inclusion of plastic bags made up of polythene thicker than 50 microns in the ban
Mumbai: Kamaraj Nagar, popularly known as mini-Dharavi, is set to become one of the biggest redevelopment projects in the city. The ownership of the 46-acre slum abutting the Eastern Express Highway in Ghatkopar (east) has changed hands and now lies with Champalal Vardhan of the Neelam Group.
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday, in an important order, banned "non-forest activities" in mangrove areas along the state's coast. A division bench of Justice J N Patel and Justice B R Gavai ruled that its directive would hold irrespective of whether the government had notified a mangrove plot as "protected forests" or not.
Mumbai: In a discovery of stellar proportions, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Colaba, in partnership with in an international team of astronomers, have found a new class of supernovae. The find uncovers a new means to detect these rare phenomena.
Predictably, plastic manufacturers are not amused. They assert that the drive contravenes State laws that ban only bags less than 50 micron thick. Alka Kshirsagar
Mumbai The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said that no non-forest activity can be permitted in the areas where mangroves grow, even if such areas have not been yet declared as
Engineering major Larsen & Toubro and Malaysia
NEW DELHI: It is probably the best news for Mumbai's leading builders who had invested thousands of crores of rupees on buying prime plots to develop flats and residences but got stuck in the environment tangle as the land was classified later as forest area.
Engineering major Larsen & Toubro and Malaysia's Scomi Group are expected to commission the first phase of Mumbai Monorail, India's first such system, by end of this year.