FPJ-MMRDA webinar: Wait has become longer but the journey will be pleasant
FPJ-MMRDA webinar: Wait has become longer but the journey will be pleasant
Mumbaikars have waited for an alternative mode of transport for travel for too long. Joining this wait is
RA Rajeev, Metropolitan Commissioner of MMRDA. Before COVID-19 struck in March last year and the subsequent lockdown, he was very optimistic that two projects â Metro Lines 2A and 7 â will be completed by the end of 2020. But the crisis delayed the project. R A Rajeev in a conversation with
R N Bhaskar, Consulting Editor, FPJ;
Shishir Joshi, CEO and Founder, Project Mumbai; and
Mumbai’s diverse bird habitats are facing a threat from rapid urbanisation
Activists suggest wetlands be developed as tourist attractions and builders incentivised to protect avian biodiversity. A black-winged stilt in a polluted creek next to Lokhandwala lake in Mumbai. | Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay.
Many popular and lesser-known bird habitats in Mumbai city are facing a threat from urban infrastructure work, while some have managed to survive despite the urban landscape closing in.
Naturalist and writer-photographer Sunjoy Monga estimates that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region has lost about 75% of habitat landscapes in just over a quarter of a century, with the most shocking and large scale devastation witnessed in just the past 7 years to 8 years in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
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After a lackluster performance in 2020 (according to expectations), India’s economy was poised to reclaim a high growth rate in 2020 and retain its mantle as the fastest growing major economy in the world. But all those hopes came to a jarring halt even before the first quarter of the year was in the books.
India’s cement consumption in CW’s Global Volume Forecast Report October 2020 update is forecasted to decline by 20% to approximately 266 million t before rebounding to growth in the next fiscal year on the back of strong and sustained demand from the agricultural sector and the slower recovery of the service and industrial sectors of the Indian economy.
“It is more a political issue than the development issue. The BMC polls are just over a year away and the BJP is attempting to project the Sena and Chief Minister as anti-development. That is why BJP is making an issue of Kanjurmarg land,” said a senior Sena leader.
The BJP has also shown willingness to see NCP chief Sharad Pawar mediate between the state and the Centre to resolve the carshed issue.
“We believe Sharad Pawar will always take a practical stand and not make wrong decisions when it comes to development projects,” Fadnavis had said earlier this week.
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