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Continue reading →: Dahisar NLRR forum to move court after BMC offers reserved plot to builder
Dahisar forum to move court after BMC offers reserved plot to builder Forum alleges the land, reserved for a fire station, was offered to a builder to construct two high-rises and the fire station, when BMC could build the station themselves and use the rest of the land for public…
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Continue reading →: Smashing Victory: Wetlands in CRZ-1 protected yet again!
In a swift response to the written and telephonic complaints by the New Link Road Residents Forum and Newspaper articles in the Times of India, the BMC swung into action and demolished barricades erected in CRZ-1 land behind Prithvi Palace in Dahisar West, north west Mumbai, on the 18th of…
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Continue reading →: Alert Dahisar residents save 3-acres of CRZ1 mangrove
Alert Dahisar residents save 3-acre mangrove 8th November 2013 Morning walkers spot workers putting up metal sheets on the marshy land, inform police, BMC Virat A Singh virat.singh@timesgroup.com TWEETS @singhvirat246 Alert residents of
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Continue reading →: Yet another CRZ encroachment
6th November 2013: This week alert members of the New Link Road Forum noticed barricades being erected in CRZ 1 behind Prithvi Palace. They promptly filed complaints with the authorities, and the MHB police swung into action and confiscated the equipment of the people doing the work. Here are some…
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Continue reading →: Factory amid Dahisar mangroves demolished
New Link Road Resident’s Forum features yet again in TIMES IMPACT Factory amid Dahisar mangroves demolished TIMES NEWS NETWORK 30th October Times Of India page 5 Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday demolished the Cement drainage pipe factory set up in the middle of mangroves at Anand Nagar,…
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Continue reading →: Illegal factory functioning amid Dahisar mangroves
Illegal factory functioning amid Dahisar mangroves TIMES NEWS NETWORK Publication: The Times Of India Mumbai; Date: Oct 29, 2013; Section: Times City; Page: 9 Figure 1 Unbelievable sight in the midst of mangroves in Mumbai Mumbai: A cement drainage pipe manufacturing plant has been functional in the middle…
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Continue reading →: New life for mangroves and wetlands in Mumbai
HC order will boost wetlands: Activists Chinmayi Shalya Times News Network 16th October 2013 Mumbai: The Bombay high court order directing the state government to ban construction on wetlands can lend a lease of life to acres around the city’s coast where either construction or dumping of debris has destroyed
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Continue reading →: High Court bans any construction on wetlands after our PIL
New Link Road Forum with Vanashakti and other NGO’s filed a PIL with the High Court, and this is the verdict we got yesterday: Ban construction on wetlands in Maharashtra, HC tells state Rosy Sequeira Times News Network 15th October 2013 Mumbai: The Bombay high court on…
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Continue reading →: Mumbai’s sea water contaminated by sewage
Slum dwellers, open defecation, untreated sewage, all cause Faecal coliform to jump by up to 103% on city’s west coast Nariman Pt To Versova, Sea Water Is Like Sewage: Data Clara Lewis Times News Network 4th October 2013 Analysis of data about the deteriorating sea water shows faecal coliform…






