The State government is in the final stages of finalising an action plan for a World Bank project to prevent floods in the city. The project will focus on three broad pillars - rebuilding storm-water drains, desilting lakes in the areas that flood and install sluice gates at these lakes to ensure they act as balancing reservoirs, and augment the …
MUMBAI: Two months after the BMC took over the Eastern Express Highway from MMRDA for maintenance, the results are on display in the stretch from Airoli bridge to Mulund toll naka. Chakrapani Alle, assistant municipal commissioner, T Ward told Hindustan Times that the T ward stretch on EEH from Nahur to Airoli up to Mulund toll naka had been spruced …
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who holds charge of Bengaluru, announced that families living in each of the homes across the city that were flooded will be provided compensation of ₹25,000 and immediate arrangements for alternative places to stay, food and other basic facilities. He also announced compensation of ₹5 lakh for the two labourers killed while working on the …
