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Continue reading →: Deadly Illegal structures
Thane civic body takes action, starts razing illegal structures ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate THANE/MUMBAI: Waking up after 75 people lost their lives; the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) began demolition of illegal structures. Additional municipal commissioner Shyam Sunder Patil said demolition of two adjoining buildings — a six-storey and a seven-storey building — had…
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Continue reading →: Air Pollution killing urban India
99% cities have critical level of air pollution ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate CPCB data shows 99 per cent of cities have critical level of particulate pollution NEW DATA SHOWS THAT SMALLER CITIES HAVE FOLLOWED THE FOOTPRINTS OF BIGGER CITIES WHEN IT COMES TO AIR POLLUTION NEW DELHI: India’s high economic growth has given…
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Continue reading →: Dry waste Sorting Centre
Corporator to demand dry waste sorting centre for each city ward ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate MUMBAI: Even as the civic body’s policy making it mandatory to segregate waste at source has received poor response, a resolution for creation of dry waste sorting centre in each ward is likely to be placed in the…
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Continue reading →: Lifestyle diseases
Lifestyle diseases claim more lives than infections in India ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate Experts demand more policies to promote healthy living This is from the Front Page headlines of Hindustan Times Newspaper today the 5th of March 2013 NEW DELHI: We have a killer lifestyle. Today, more Indians are dying of lifestyle diseases…
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Continue reading →: Environment Day Shock in Dahisar
Today as the World celebrated Environment day [2nd February 2013], some of us Forum members set out to enjoy the beautiful mangroves in Dahisar East. As we neared the mangroves, we were shocked to see a dumper truck coming out of the road leading into the mangroves! We made the…
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Continue reading →: Fake papers for Aadhaar cards
Two held for supplying fake papers for Aadhaar cards ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate Hindustan Times 19th Jan 2013 MUMBAI: The MHB Colony police on Thursday arrested two people for their alleged involvement in a racket that supplied fake documents to help people get Aadhaar cards. The accused identified as brothers Suresh Maharana, 31,…
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Continue reading →: Uprooted slumdwellers fell trees to rebuild homes
Uprooted slumdwellers fell trees to rebuild homes Phase II Of Demolition Kept Under Wraps: BMC Linah Baliga TNN Mumbai: A day after the civic body demolished over a thousand illegal shanties at Ganpat Patil Nagar in Dahisar, slumdwellers had made preparations to reconstruct shanties by felling trees. TOI had captured images…
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Continue reading →: Anti Environment Congress Party workers oppose demolition at Ganpat Patil Nagar
Residents take grouse against Cong netas to Sonia Linah Baliga TNN Times of India 12th Jan 2013 Mumbai: Attempts made by Congress politicians to stall the demolition of illegal shanties at Ganpat Patil Nagar in Dahisar on the 10th of January 2013 have not gone down well with residents. Peeved Dahisar…
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Continue reading →: Demolitions at Ganpat Patil Nagar
10th January 2013: Today the BMC [Municipal Corporation] and Police teamed up in strength to start demolition of unauthorized structures standing on CRZ 1 Mangrove forests at Borivali-Dahisar in North Mumbai. Even after repeated warnings by the Court, Police and BMC, and despite repeated complaints by local tax payer…
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Continue reading →: Ganpat Patil Slums to be removed
New Link Road Forums efforts to remove slums and restore precious mangroves continue: ‘Dahisar hutments pose a risk to environment’ Linah Baliga TNN 8th January 2013 Mumbai: A slum has been festering in a coastal regulatory zone in Dahisar despite the best efforts of locals, activists and even Corporators to…
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