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Continue reading →: Dahisar residents stop work by power major in CRZ area
Power cables were being laid in slums nearby, which encroach on wetlands Alert residents of Dahisar Link Road have temporarily brought work to lay underground cables by Tata Power to a halt after they raised ob jections to the project with various authorities including the police and the…
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Continue reading →: CRZ destroyed, now MLA wants to provide Electricity to illegal slums there?!
In a shocking development, New Link Road residents stopped what would have been a major criminal activity and contempt of court. Today alert residents noticed this in Ganpat Patil Nagar, an illegal slum colony on once pristine mangroves. They noticed a pile of cable lying on the road. Tata Power…
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Continue reading →: Water mains burst!?
A fountain of water 50 feet high erupted on Mithagar Road in North Mumbai on Thursday night. Alert residents informed the New Link Road Residents Forum members through their Whatsapp group. Immediately the Forum swung into action and the water pipe was repaired by the BMC staff. Unfortunately the pipe burst…
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Continue reading →: Simple steps to hawker-free footpaths
On the Link Road at Borivali and Dahisar West in North Mumbai, we are blessed with broad footpaths, all the more necessary since the Link Road is an arterial high traffic density road and pedestrians must walk on footpaths if they care for their lives. In the last week of…
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Continue reading →: Trench dug to prevent encroachment of Dahisar mangroves being reclaimed
The efforts made by the citizens along with Forest department and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for mangroves’ preservation in North Mumbai seem to have gone in vain. The wide trenches dug by authorities to serve as deterrent for encroachment in Ganpat Patil Nagar have been reclaimed, revealed alert residents of…
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Continue reading →: Govt looking to defang green laws to spur development
This is a horrible mistake that we citizens of India must oppose at all costs, says Stalin D of Vanashakti… Read on to see what is at stake here.. Govt looking to defang green laws to spur development 1 Sep 2014 Hindustan Times (Jaipur) Chetan Chauhan Chetan.chauhan@hindustantimes.com The National Democratic Alliance government…
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Continue reading →: Destroying nature at the altar of greed
30 Aug 2014 Hindustan Times (Delhi) Chetan Chauhan chetan@hindustantimes.com ZoomBookmarkSharePrintListenTranslate NEW DELHI: The government is under attack for going on a project-clearing spree, including field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops, without paying much heed to protection of green spaces. Prakash Javadekar, the minister for environment, forest and climate change, in…
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Continue reading →: SC upholds razing of wall around Kanjurmarg dump
Victory for Vanashakti! Well done Stalin D. and team… SC upholds razing of wall around Kanjurmarg dump Mumbai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Aug 05 2014 : The Times of India The Supreme Court has upheld the demolition of the compound wall around the 141-hectare Kanjurmarg dumping ground.…
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Continue reading →: Don’t blame God. It’s the ecology
Don’t blame God. It’s the ecology. ZoomBookmarkSharePrintListenTranslate NATURAL DISASTERS CANNOT BE ELIMINATED, BUT THEIR FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY CAN BE DIMINISHED. WHEN THE SUPER CYCLONE STRUCK ORISSA THOUSANDS DIED, BUT DEATH TOLL AND PROPERTY DESTRUCTION WAS MEASURABLY REDUCED India’s pre-disposition towards fatalism is the fig leaf behind which citizens are routinely…
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Continue reading →: Wetlands in Mumbai are dying, confirms government
Wetlands near Mumbai city are dying, confirms Government Clara.Lewis@timesgroup.com Despite a ban on their destruction, the wetlands in the coastal belts around Mumbai are being killed, a Bombay high court ordered report has revealed.The damning report, prepared by the Chief Conservator of Forests (mangrove cell) N Vasudevan who inspected…
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