Delay in land acquisition, changes hit flyover project
Pune Setback in acquiring land on time and structural changes in the original project have led to a delay in completing the work of the flyover at Chapekar Junction, connecting seven roads.
Pune Setback in acquiring land on time and structural changes in the original project have led to a delay in completing the work of the flyover at Chapekar Junction, connecting seven roads.
Months after notices were issued to 56 hospital establishments in Pune, 177 hospitals and clinics in Solapur and Satara districts have been issued show-cause notices by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not treating their bio-medical waste. MPCB officials said the Pune hospitals had paid the fines and authorisation certificates had been issued to them.
Mumbai The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have approached the Union Urban Development Ministry once again for financial assistance to the Mithi river rejuvenation project.
Pune The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation
Pune Rubbishing allegations from corporators that essential ward-level works were being neglected and the civic body was paying more attention to big projects, municipal commissioner Asheesh Sharma on Monday said that Rs 404 crore has been spent on ward-level works in the past three years.
Pune A group of organic farmers from across the state has proposed that the state government should consider offering a bachelor
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to make its markets
Pune The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) recently received a Rs 39-crore grant from the central government under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for its bus rapid transit system project (BRTS).
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over the increasing incidents of suicide by farmers due to starvation, poverty and other reasons, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to come out with mirco-level steps to prevent such suicides across the country, particularly in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Despite a cold wave hitting some parts of Maharashtra, no major decline in the minimum temperature is expected in Pune, which was witnessing above normal temperatures for the past few weeks. The daily
Pune PCMC: Civic administration now aims for
Mumbai By September, Mumbai, along with six other cities, is scheduled to get a noise monitoring network. The Centre will install 10 stations across the city and record decibel levels on a regular and systematic basis. This is part of the latest amendments to the Noise Pollution (regulation and control) Rules, 2000, which the Ministry of Environment and Forest released on January 11.
Mumbai: While campaigning for the recent assembly elections chief minister Ashok Chavan had promised legal water supply for non-notified slums built before 2000. What Chavan did not know is that many of these slums already have legal water supply connections.
Nashik: Atleast 225 mcft water from the Nandurmadhmeshwar dam near here was flown away after a hole developed in it, official sources said today. The 100-year-old dam, which was renovated by the state government last year, developed a hole yesterday resulting in water-logging in nearby fields, causing threat of water shortage in Marathwada, they said. Repair work is on, sources added.
Mumbai: Renowned British architect William R Ainsworth and his German counterpart Frid Buhler have been exploring Mumbai for the past two days to check out the city
Mumbai: The state government is toying with the idea of using the state
The Maharashtra government has proposed to enact a law jailing manufacturers and even stockists of thin plastic bags in a bid to prevent them from clogging up sewage networks.
MUMBAI: Near Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, engineers with SCOMI-the monorail manufacturing company that is involved in the Mumbai project-are researching and working on advanced third-generation coaches and engines. The green technology promises to increase the carrying and speeding capacity of monorail cars and will also allow longer trains to manoeuvre steep bends.
MUMBAI: The city's monorail promises to ease congestion on roads as well as the burden on local train services, but whether the Rs 2,465-crore project will meet expectations and make good on its promises is yet to be seen. When it becomes operational by the end of the year, the monorail trains will have only four coaches instead of eight cars.
Mumbai Mumbai will have its first desalination plant in the coming months, but the BMC project, costing more than Rs 15 crore, will not be used to treat water for drinking purposes.