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With their agreement on seat-sharing finalised for the BMC and other municipal corporation elections, Uddhav and Raj Thackeray will formally announce the political alliance of their parties, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS, on Wednesday. MUMBAI: With their agreement on seat-sharing finalised for the BMC and other municipal corporation elections, Uddhav and Raj Thackeray will formally announce the...

MUMBAI: In compliance with a November 7 Supreme Court directive mandating the removal of stray dogs from the premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus depots and railway stations, BMC has initiated an AI-based pilot project to survey and geotag stray dogs across critical public locations in the city.The civic body has partnered with a start-up, Indicare AI, which has been...

Mumbai: BMC is spending Rs 4.27 crores on an infection control product that infection control specialists do not seem to recognise. These are "anti-infective bed cover mats," and 43,000 of them are being bought for four medical college hospitals.These mats are supplied by a real estate firm, Veer Housing Projects LLP, procured from an Uttarakhand-based company called Pioneer Polyleather Pvt LTD....

Mumbai: Govt departments and public authorities owe the BMC more than Rs 3,000 crore in property tax dues and the civic body has managed to recover only Rs 243 crore from them over the past five years, information shared by the BMC under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed.The data was provided by the civic body in response to an RTI query filed by civic activist and advocate Godfrey...

NCP-SP gears up for civic polls, to contest all corporations MUMBAI: Laying out its election strategy ahead of the forthcoming municipal elections, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) on Monday said it will contest all municipal corporations across Maharashtra, positioning itself as a people-centric alternative focused on urban governance and civic issues.The party welcomed the...

MUMBAI: As the city heads for civic polls, a recent report on the performance of corporators from the final year of the BMC House (2017-2021) paints a stark picture of underperformance. The findings, released by the Praja Foundation, reveal that only two out of 220 evaluated corporators earned an ‘A’ grade, while the majority fell short of expectations. Grade Breakdown A (80-100 marks): 2...

Mumbai: With an eye on the polls to 29 municipal corporations in the state, the urban development department has sanctioned funds worth Rs 111.6 crore as a "special provision for the development of basic amenities in municipal corporations", over half of which is for BMC.It issued 15 govt resolutions on Saturday sanctioning the release of the funds. Once the polls are declared and the model code of...

Mumbai: Newly appointed additional municipal commissioner Avinash Dhakne on Monday signalled a tougher crackdown on construction-linked pollution, saying the BMC may consider a steep hike in penalties for sites that flout norms even after being served notice.At present, construction sites are fined just Rs 10,000 for violations — an amount Dhakne indicated is far too low to act as a deterrent....

Mumbai: Over the past weekend, the BMC called for yet another visit by an IIT-Bombay transport expert to the Veer Savarkar flyover site in Goregaon, as it works to finalise the design of a second bridge alongside the existing Savarkar structure. The civic body said it wants a comprehensive traffic management assessment before freezing the plan, especially since the new bridge will have to be built at...

MUMBAI: The BMC has pushed the deadline for opening one carriageway of Andheri's Gokhale bridge from November to February 15. The announcement came after Wednesday's joint meeting of BMC chief I S Chahal, Western Railway general manager Ashok Kumar Mishra, local MLA Ameet Satam and civic, railway and Rail India Technical and Economic Service officials for planning the launch of girders.Chahal sought...