BMC in its budget for 2019-20 is likely to announce its intention to use their reserve funds for infrastructure projects like GMLR and Mumbai Coastal Road.
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Needed, Politics of Consensus
Mid-week, on the December 22, 2016 morning the radio channels blared out a slew of infrastructure projects the Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra would be inaugurating at the hands of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a couple of days later.
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From Waste to Wealth
Developing nations need to put in systems for efficient sorting of garbage, and differentiation into recyclable and toxic material. The financial and commercial capital of India - Mumbai city - with over 12 million resident citizens, generates 6,500 tonnes of garbage, in addition to 2,500 tonnes of construction and demolition (C&D)
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Underground Metro-3 plan
The Revised Draft Development Plan 2034 of BMC has highlighted another major loophole in the proposed Metro-3 corridor underground station at Flora Fountain. In addition, the heritage committee approval for the project is also pending
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Contractor rebuilds road to evade BMC
As the BMC prepares to launch its second phase of road inspection after lodging an FIR against six contractors accused of irregularities in the first phase of the roads
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Mumbai: Pay toll for coastal road for 30 years
Mumbai´s coastal road may reduce your travel time, but it also promises to make your pockets lighter.
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Initial green nod for Mumbai coastal road
An ambitious coastal road from Mumbai´s Nariman Point to Kandivali may be finally taking shape. CM Devendra Fadnavis has told the State Assembly that Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has given an in-principle approval to the project.
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Capital spend on roads in Mumbai increased
The Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has increased the capital expenditure on roads by almost 62 per cent to Rs 2,500 crore in 2014-15. However, it hopes to spend Rs 1,016 crore, or just about two-thirds of the budget estimate.
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Mumbai civic body’s waste expenditure on road repairs
A recent audit of the Comptroller of Auditor General in Mumbai has revealed that the Mumbai civic body BMC wasted Rs 8.44 crore of taxpayers' money by hiring a contractor to repair a stretch of SV Road that could have been done for free. The company that originally constructed the 2.5-km stretch in Borivali in 2007 was bound by the contract to fix road defects for no extra cost till December 2012.
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Mumbai Port to earn rent from land given to BMC
Media reports indicate that the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) may earn Rs 10 crore rent from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for leasing
a 2,200-sq-m plot on Reay Road for 30 years. MbPT would allot the land on a licence basis to the civic body for the proposed stormwater pumping station at the Britannia Outfall at RetiBunder on Reay Road
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