MUMBAI: With BMC issuing new air quality guidelines for construction sites in the city, ward officers, who are supposed to ensure their effective implementation on the ground, cautioned that it would take at least two weeks before the mandated 35fthigh iron barricades or CCTV cameras are installed.Most of the ward officers, whom TOI spoke with, indicated that this week they will focus on sensitising...
MUMBAI: BMC commissioner IS Chahal on Friday morning held a meeting with officials from MMRDA, SRA, MSRDC and also members from the construction industry to tackle concerns related to pollution being echoed by various city residents.Mumbai at present is witnessing 6,000 construction works which include public infrastructure projects too. As part of the action plan, all construction sites have been...
QUETTA: Gunmen shot and killed six construction workers overnight in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province, Pakistani police said Saturday.Police officer Hidayatullah Dashti said gunmen opened fire overnight at eight construction workers in the city of Turbat, about 377 miles (about 606 kilometers) south of Quetta — the capital of the province. Two survived, he said, and were hospitalized for...
NEW DELHI: Launching a criminal investigation into the allegations of corruption in the construction of a new residential building for chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the CBI is learned to have registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) to probe the alleged “irregularities and misconduct” by yet-to-be identified public servants of the Delhi government.The probe agency has asked PWD of the Delhi...
NEW DELHI: Constructing residential buildings in south and east Delhi may soon get costlier as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) plans to levy "compensatory regulatory charges", a fee that was earlier only imposed in north Delhi so far by the erstwhile north corporation.The proposed fee would be calculated keeping in mind the built-up area of new residential buildings or new constructions done to...
NEW DELHI: Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Monday instructed government and private construction agencies to follow the guidelines to control dust pollution in the city during the winter season. He convened a meeting with government and private construction agencies at Delhi Secretariat in this regard. "All agencies engaged in construction work were instructed to follow 14-point guidelines to...
KOLKATA: The ambitious Purple Line Metro Corridor project, connecting Joka to Esplanade, continues to make significant strides in Kolkata's ever-expanding metro network. With the Joka–Taratala segment having been inaugurated on December 30, 2022, and the Majherhat Metro station nearing completion, the construction work for the Majerhat to Esplanade section of the Purple Line is now in full swing. The...
BHUBANESWAR: The Railway Board has sanctioned a fund of Rs 14.7 crore for construction of subway near Nidhipanda bridge in Balasore district. It is an important bridge in Haldipada-Balasore section of Kharagpur-Bhadrak section.During a meeting on June 21, local people had urged railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who was on a visit to the district, to construct a subway near Nidhipanda bridge (Bridge No...
Manthan Mehta has been a journalist since 1997, and is currently Assistant Editor at The Times of India, Mumbai. He covers a wide range of subjects ranging from insurance to local crimes and civic issues. Manthan reads and watches cricket matches in his free time.Read More!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {}; const { TimesApps } = window;...
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