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A peek at the Bal Thackeray statue coming up at Colaba
MUMBAI: BMC on Sunday placed Shiv Sena founder, the late Bal Thackeray’s statue at a traffic island on M G Road at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Chowk in Colaba. While it is wrapped for now, officials said that some work was still pending before it is inaugurated. Some residents have opposed the installation, citing a 2013 Supreme Court order, which states that no statues must be installed on public roads.
Vice admiral (rtd) I C Rao, president of Apli Mumbai, an NGO, said residents had opposed it in December 2019. “There is a 2013 SC order which states that no statues can be installed on public roads. The safety of pedestrians is affected, and when there are events when the statue will be garlanded, the road will be closed. Ours is a safety issue and not political. There will be hundreds of people taking selfies and it will create a traffic problem. There is no space on the traffic island,” Rao said.
MUMBAI: BMC on Sunday placed
Shiv Sena founder, the late Bal Thackeray’s statue at a traffic island on M G Road at Dr
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Chowk in
Colaba. While it is wrapped for now, officials said that some work was still pending before it is inaugurated. Some residents have opposed the installation, citing a 2013 Supreme Court order, which states that no statues must be installed on public roads.
Vice admiral (rtd) I C Rao, president of Apli
Mumbai, an
NGO, said residents had opposed it in December 2019. “There is a 2013 SC order which states that no statues can be installed on public roads. The safety of pedestrians is affected, and when there are events when the statue will be garlanded, the road will be closed. Ours is a safety issue and not political. There will be hundreds of people taking selfies and it will create a traffic problem. There is no space on the traffic island,” Rao said.
Mumbai: Parsis aggrieved as BMC plans to relocate Parsi Gate to facilitate coastal road project
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Mumbai: Members of the Parsi community are aggrieved with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as the fate of the iconic Parsi Gate continues to remain uncertain. In order to facilitate the ongoing construction work for the Coastal Road Project (CRP), the civic body had approached the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), seeking its approval to relocate the 100-year-old structure.
On Wednesday, a group of concerned citizens from the Parsi community went to the BMC to meet the civic chief, Iqbal Singh Chahal, to urge him not to relocate the structure.
BMC issues tender for reconstruction of Himalaya bridge
The Himalaya bridge, which used to connect Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus over Dr D N Road to Azad Maidan police station, collapsed during the evening peak rush hour in March 2019 December 24, 2020 1:53:38 am
The new bridge will be higher than the previous one and will use a stainless steel plate girder as opposed to iron beams. (File)
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday issued a tender notice for the reconstruction of Himalaya bridge, which had collapsed in March 2019, leading to the death of six persons and injuring 31.
The civic body has said the project, estimated to cost Rs 6.38 crore, will be completed within 15 months, excluding the monsoon period, from the day the contractor is appointed. The BMC aims to begin work between January and February 2021.