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Mumbai News: Floating Garbage in Nullahs Despite Desilting

The rainfall last week caused massive waterlogging in several low-lying areas of the city

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Mumbai: After last year's flak, BMC floats desilting tenders early

The BMC will also remove silt from the Mithi, Poisar and Dahisar rivers.

Mithi , Haryana , India , Dahisar , Maharashtra , Vibhas-achrekar , Ashish-shelar , Storm-water-department , Engineer-vibhas , Mumbai , Bmc , Desilting

Navi Mumbai civic chief Abhijit Bangar inspects pre-monsoon works in two wards; see pics

While inspecting the Koparkhairane ward, Bangar directed officials to clean the nullahs so that the rainwater flows easily and no flooding is reported.

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Mumbai: After BJP's criticism, BMC reviews nullahs for desilting

Following the direction of BMC chief, Iqbal Singh Chahal, additional civic commissioner (City), Dr Sanjiv Kumar, on Thursday visited the nullahs of Matunga, Dharavi, Mahim and Dadar areas so as to review the progress of the desilting work.

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Mumbai: BMC undertakes Rs 162 cr desilting project

To unclog the city’s nullahs ahead of the monsoon, the BMC will remove 2,51,610 metric ton garbage at an expenditure of Rs 162 crore, including Rs 71 crore for big nullahs and Rs 91 crore for smaller ones.

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Children ask SC not to lift stay on demolitions along nullahs

A large number of children belonging to the families that have been affected by the evictions caused by the operation to clear the Gujjar and Orangi storm water drains of encroachments held a...

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CDA starts stone pitching of nullahs

Islamabad : The Capital Development Authority has launched the work on stone pitching and sloping of nullahs running down from Margallas and crisscrossing Islamabad, eventually falling in Rawal...

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Manual scavengers under PCMC unsafe

Manual scavengers under PCMC unsafe
Manual scavengers under PCMC unsafe
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: May 25, 2021, 18:54 IST
Two Pimpri-Chinchwad wards pulled up for negligence
Two wards of the
PCMC) have allegedly forced its sanitation staff to clean
nullahs without necessary safety precautions in clear violation of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
The negligence came to light after civic activists took photographic evidence of the work in progress over the last three days and submitted a complaint to municipal commissioner Rajesh
Patil and district collector
Rajesh Deshmukh. The pictures show the staff cleaning nullahs manually, without gloves, boots and masks. Contractors are supervising manual work by sanitary staff to allegedly save money, despite having machines.

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30-foot-wide road to be built along Orangi, Gujjar nullahs, SHC told

Karachi
April 22, 2021
The provincial advocate general has told the Sindh High Court (SHC) that the provincial government has proposed building a 30-foot-wide road along the Gujjar and Orangi storm water drains in order to ensure that no further construction takes place on the right of way and that accessibility is improved.
Filing a statement on lawsuits with regard to the demolition of houses at Gujjar and Orangi nullahs, the AG submitted that the drains were natural drains and the right of way in respect of each was originally designated in pre-Partition times between 40 and 210 feet on either sides of the Gujjar drain and 20 to 300 feet on either side of the Orangi drain.

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Residents demand immediate halt to KMC operations along Gujjar, Orangi nullahs

Residents demand immediate halt to KMC operations along Gujjar, Orangi nullahs
Karachi
April 17, 2021
The Karachi Bachao Tehreek has demanded immediately halting the “illegal anti-encroachment operation” at the Gujjar and Orangi nullahs.
Addressing a news conference at the Karachi Press Club on Friday, its members also demanded that the people affected by the operation be provided with alternative accommodation as per a Supreme Court order, and not a Rs90,000 cheque.
Since February, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) anti-encroachment department has illegally demolished thousands of leased houses constructed at a little distance from Gujjar and Orangi storm water drains, they said, adding that thousands of such more houses were to be demolished by the corporation in the future.

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