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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…
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Continue reading →: Sand mining criminals escape
75 trucks with illegally mined sand give Tehsildars the slip Incident Shows Ban Remains Only On Paper Chinmayi Shalya Times News Network 7th October 2013 Mumbai: A ban on sand mining across the country by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and a Supreme Court order notwithstanding, the illegal activity…
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Continue reading →: City’s coastal waters go from bad to worse
City’s coastal waters go from bad to worse Even as the New Link Road Residents Forum has been highlighting the extremely hazardous and unsanitary condition in which illegal slum dwellers have been living in precious mangrove forests, defecating in the open and destroying mangroves, here is an alarming report…
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Continue reading →: BATTLE FOR MANGROVES
BATTLE FOR MANGROVES CONTINUES All human activity banned in city’s mangrove zones Clara Lewis Times News Network 6TH October 2013 Mumbai: Mumbai’s mangroves have recently been declared as reserved forests. The government will now appoint a forest settlement officer to settle claims of all inhabitants on mangrove land.…
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