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Mumbai firm bags ₹22 crore contract to digitally map Adani's Dharavi project
1 year ago

Mumbai firm bags ₹22 crore contract to digitally map Adani's Dharavi project

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai-based digital mapping firm Genesys International has bagged the contract to deploy its digital twin mapping technology for the Dharavi redevelopment project. Adani's Dharavi redevelopment project has run into trouble with the opposition parties alleging that the business conglomerate received favours from the Eknath Shinde government. In a statement issued last week, the Adani Group had claimed that the tender …

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Free of encroachments, Mahim Fort to be turned into a tourist spot
1 year, 9 months ago

Free of encroachments, Mahim Fort to be turned into a tourist spot

Hindustan Times  

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Monday demolished the last of the 267 slums encroaching upon the more than 800-year-old Mahim Fort since 1970, paving the way for its restoration. Free of encroachments, Mahim Fort to be turned into a tourist spot An official from G ward office said all the illegal structures had been demolished and around 3,000 residents had …

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In a first, BMC to set up porta cabin clinics in slums
2 years, 3 months ago

In a first, BMC to set up porta cabin clinics in slums

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai To provide primary health care services to slums, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has planned to install makeshift or porta cabin clinics and polyclinics. The porta cabins, to be set up under HinduhridaySamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Arogya Yojana, will be installed to expand and make primary health care services accessible to the community The first porta cabin clinic will be operational …

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Hyderabad slums deteriorate, turn into open toilets
2 years, 7 months ago

Hyderabad slums deteriorate, turn into open toilets

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Children and men are spotted defecating openly, majorly outside slums, oblivious of the fact that they are spreading diseases like typhoid, dengue and malaria. In a way, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has to be blamed because it has not built public toilets or provided basic amenities in a majority of slum areas. Though the civic body attained open …

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Life a struggle, can’t SC rethink decision, ask residents of Delhi slums along railway lines
4 years, 3 months ago

Life a struggle, can’t SC rethink decision, ask residents of Delhi slums along railway lines

Hindustan Times  

Sunil Kumar and his family -- wife and two children -- used to live in a south Delhi slum when their home was razed by a bulldozer during a demolition drive in December 2016. HT on Thursday visited other slums – in Azadpur, Vihar, Shakur Basti, Mayapuri and Anand Parbat -- that are all located alongside railway tracks and densely …

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Maharashtra Govt to Announce 600-acre Aarey Land as Reserve Forest
4 years, 3 months ago

Maharashtra Govt to Announce 600-acre Aarey Land as Reserve Forest

News 18  

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to reserve 600-acre Aarey land near the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in suburban Mumbai as a forest and conserve the same. The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who said, the forest would be the first example of a “huge jungle” being conserved at the centre of a …

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