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Changing City: How a twin-arm flyover is set to transform Navi Mumbai-Pune commute (opens the original)
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In what could bring down travel time to Navi Mumbai and Pune significantly, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to construct a flyover with two vehicular arms at the Sion-Panvel Highway — connecting the junction with the existing Ghatkopar Mankhurd Link Road (GMLR). The T-Junction is one of the major traffic choke-points in the eastern suburbs, located at the Sion-Panvel Highway. The congested junction records a heavy influx of vehicles travelling to and from Navi Mumbai and Pune
Fresh probe ordered into Chembur tree collapse a month after boy’s death (opens the original)
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A month after an 11-year-old student Vihaan Srivastava lost his life in a fatal tree collapse incident after a large peepal tree collapsed on his school bus in Mumbai’s Chembur area in the eastern suburbs, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has appointed an independent one-member committee headed by noted botanist and former Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Sanjay V. Deshmukh to conduct a fresh inquiry into the incident. The new committee will furnish its report within a month. Me
Environmental concerns stall Mulund land allotment for Dharavi project (opens the original)
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Citing environmental concerns, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Improvements Committee on Tuesday stalled a proposal to lease 15 acres of the erstwhile Mulund dumping ground to Navbharat Mega Developers Private Limited (NMDPL). Speaking to The Indian Express, committee chairperson and Shiv Sena corporator Sandhya Doshi said the proposal had been sent back to the civic administration after members raised several technical objections. According to the proposal, the land would be used
From El Niño fears to 3-year high: How July rains saved Mumbai’s water supply (opens the original)
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Despite an initial delay in the monsoon onset due to El Niño conditions, water levels in the seven lakes supplying Mumbai reached a three-year high Tuesday morning. Combined useful content in the reservoirs stood at 88.81 per cent, or 12.85 lakh million litres against a total capacity of 14.47 lakh million litres. On July 28, 2025, lake levels stood marginally lower at 88.70 per cent, while on the same date in 2024, the stock was at 72.97 per cent. An island city, Mumbai relies on seven reservoi
BMC QR-code drive uncovers 3,167 ‘ghost’ hawker licences (opens the original)
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A fresh verification drive undertaken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as part of its long-pending exercise to issue QR code-enabled identity cards to authorised hawkers has found that 3,167 vendors identified as legal in the city’s 2014 survey have died. The civic body is now considering a policy to transfer their vending licences to their eligible kin, even as it moves to create a verified database of nearly one lakh authorised hawkers and intensify action against illegal vendin
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