Brihanmumbai municipal corporation

The Shiv Sena’s nominee for deputy mayor’s post, Suhas Wadkar, is also set to be elected unopposed. read more

The number of students in municipal schools in Mumbai has dropped from over four lakh in 2014 to three lakh in 2018 read more

The I-T department has come across irregularities involving Rs 735 crore. Among the contractors, two were blacklisted by the BMC in 2017 after a probe into the Rs 350-crore road scam found them to blame for shoddy and substandard work. read more

The challenge invites people to click pictures of potholes or take selfies with them and upload the images via Fixit app. read more

Aarey, one of Mumbai’s few green belts, has been at the centre of a row over the possible ecological damage because of the construction by the Mumbai Metro. read more

The top court sought a status report with pictures on plantation, transplantation and felling of trees in Aarey colony area of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). read more

Khoja Florist had approached the high court last year against the municipality’s notice to take over a portion of their property for the widening of Hill Road. The court ordered the florist to vacate the required portion. read more

Despite controlling the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Shiv Sena was unable to stop the tree authority from granting permission to axe 2,185 trees and transplant 461 trees in Aarey Milk Colony for the Metro-3 project. read more

On Friday morning, the Bombay high court dismissed four petitions challenging the decision of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) tree authority permitting the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) to cut 2,646 trees to construct a metro... read more

By Saturday morning, Mumbai police had cordoned off all roads leading to Aarey which saw heavy traffic jams on Western Express Highway and Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link road. read more

Around 39,000 seats, including 4,000 in Mumbai, set aside for students from financially distressed families, remain vacant read more

The court is hearing a petition by environment group Vanashakti from July 2019 that sought a stay on the expansion of the dump saying that mangroves and inter-tidal areas around the sanctuary will be damaged. read more

The HC was hearing a plea filed by activist Zoru Bhathena, opposing the MSRDC’s plea seeking the court’s permission to cut 1,585 mangroves for the construction of the Bandra-Versova sea link. read more

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched yet another mobile application to address citizens’ grievances related to potholes. The ‘My BMC pothole fixit’ will allow citizens to upload pictures of a pothole, tag its location and track the... read more

Citizens from several areas across Mumbai complained of the smell of gas and lodged complaints with civic authorities. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is yet to figure out the source of the gas leak, but is investigating the incident. read more