Barely a year after torrential rains submerged large parts of Mumbai’s, the city’s water sources have fallen to critical levels and water rationing has returned. This year, a bad monsoon has led to Mumbai’s reservoirs falling to barely 9 percent of its capacity, forcing water cuts across India’s financial capital. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has halted supplies to construction sites and swimming pools, and tightened restrictions on commercial users. Predictab

Mumbai: Dadar is the only railway station in Mumbai that has no authorised water connection. This, as per the sources, is due to an ongoing dispute between the Western Railway and the BMC. The tussle between the BMC and the Western Railway has led to a strange situation. The Western Railway is asking the BMC to pay Rs 338 crore for way leave charges, and the Western Railway has to pay Rs 22 Lakh to the BMC. The tussle has been going on for 12 years and remains unresolved. As

Mumbai: On May 29, the BMC decided to cut 1900 trees for Versova-Bhayandar Link Road. The decision saw a massive uproar by the opposition as well as the environmentalists concerned about the city’s rising temperature and unpredictable climate. The BMC has claimed that Mumbai’s civilisation is growing rapidly, and to keep up the pace, the city needs more roadways. This is important as current infrastructure is lacking capacity to handle the traffic. “To create this infrastruct

Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde dreams of Mumbai’s transformation with innovative ideas and team work Pic: Bhushan Koyande On May 22, Ritu Tawde completed 100 days as Mumbai’s Mayor. She is the only second Mayor of the City of Dreams from the BJP. In an exclusive conversation with Minal Sancheti, Tawde outlines her plans for Mumbai in the coming days. Excerts… What were some of the challenges you faced in these 100 days? With the support of PM Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Deve

Mumbai: Marking a decisive shift from historical administrative opaqueness to a new era of civic accountability, the ruling Mahayuti alliance completed its first hundred days in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) by showcasing a comprehensive report card of twenty-three major policy decisions. Addressing a crowded press conference at the iconic civic headquarters on Thursday, Andheri (West) MLA and Mumbai BJP chief Ameet Satam boldly declared the end of the “systema

With Ashwini Bhide helming the BMC, women in Maharashtra are no longer merely breaking bureaucratic ceilings but redesigning the building itself. India has a powerful legacy of women power in the political and administrative field, and when the power is in the administrative government, the power game is different. Take Kiran Bedi, who became India’s first woman to join the Indian Police Service in 1972, was known for her fearless approach and innovative policing techniques,

Mumbai: Amid mounting concerns over delayed emergency response in congested neighbourhoods, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is preparing to enforce parking restrictions in several narrow lanes across the city, where indiscriminate on-street parking has increasingly emerged as a critical civic hazard. The move, expected to be implemented soon, is aimed at ensuring unobstructed access for fire engines and ambulances in densely populated pockets where even minor del

Mumbai : A storm is brewing over the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s plan to set up its first-ever 4-year nursing degree college - now mired in a row with a proposal to engage a private player for the prestigious project. The civic body recently floated an e-tender to develop the proposed nursing degree college on a Design-Build-Operate-Transfer (DBOT) basis in five years, on a prime 2327 sq.mt plot on R. K. Patkar Marg, near BMC’s K.B. Bhabha Hospital, in Band

Mumbai : Creating history, senior IAS officer Ashwini Satish Bhide has been appointed the first woman Municipal Commissioner of the 160-year-old Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), bringing with her a formidable reputation as an ‘executioner’ of the most difficult assignments. With this, the country’s biggest and richest civic body will have two women at the helm – including Mayor Ritu Tawde – and Bhide, an engineer who topped the 1995 UPSC examination among women.