Former Maharashtra minister and Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Aaditya Thackeray on Monday claimed nearly '50 people', including 'some middlemen' and personal assistants, will be part of the delegation that will travel with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in Davos, Switzerland.
On July 31, one of the five shortlisted companies, IRB Infrastructure, had said it would not bid for MTHL.
The Mumbai town planning agency has said it can't spare land in the commercial BKC area for a terminal due to demand from private firms
And Sachin Tendulkar came by to cheer!
Amid the continuing stand-off with the Bharatiya Janata Party over the proposal to appoint a Chief Executive Officer for Mumbai, the Shiv Sena on Monday warned its former ally to consult it before taking any such decision for the megapolis.
The government and MMRDA are keen to develop the 22-km link, which will connect Sewri on the island city to Nhava Seva in Navi Mumbai, on an engineering, procurement and construction basis and not on the build-operate transfer model, considering past experience.
Uddhav said the protesters were citizens standing up for future of the planet.
With the Japanese government taking a lead in funding the megapolis' many signature infrastructure projects, the World Bank has evinced interest in funding the proposed Charkop-Dahisar and Wadala-Teen Hath Naka Metro projects.
Realty plans hit roadblock; delay could hit modernisation
At present, Mumbai Metro One Private Ltd (MMOPL) is offering a promotional fare of Rs 10 for all the destinations till July 9.
The 102-acre government land at Kanjurmarg was handed over to the MMRDA on October 6.
Bombay HC stays proposed Metro fare hike till Jan 29.
Shiv Sena has so far expressed concerns over car shed for the city's planned metro network, the bullet train and the West Coast refinery projects.
The matter came up for hearing on Monday before a bench chaired by Justice R D Dhanuka.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is agreeable in principle to this tax, but the government is yet to take a decision.
"Does one need bullet train or improvement of basic rail infrastructure," the MNS chief said.
Expresses inability to provide land for train terminal in Bandra-Kurla Complex, a cash cow for MMRDA
The opposition demanded that the concert either be postponed or given permission after the BMC poll process is completed.
On Tuesday, the state-run Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, the planning body, indicated that it expected to award the contract before December, which would pave the way to kick start construction in the same month.
The COVID-19 hospital has a 190-bed ICU, 1,536 beds with oxygen facility, an ICU for children, a 20-bed dialysis unit, a 40-bed triage and a 384-bed isolation room with a total of 2,170 beds, the MMRDA said in a release.
Following an assurance from the state government that their grievances would be looked into, the strike -- which was to begin on Tuesday -- has been pushed back.
In a first, a public transport facility is beating its own drum.
R-Infra in its argument had told the high court that it was losing upto Rs 85 lakh a day despite being used by nearly 250,000 commuters
A total of over Rs 1,641 crore of premium is pending against five lease holders of MMRDA
The maximum inventories are in 1 and 2 BHK configurations totaling 587,500 units.
'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.'
The marshals will be provided specialised axes to snip wires and break glasses.
MMOPL has already taken a decision to extend the fare slab of Rs 10 to Rs 40.
Speed of trains would be increased up to 200 kilometres/hour.
However, the realty players will have to pursue their long-pending demands with the state government for abolition of the Urban Land Ceiling Act, speedy approvals to expedite redevelopment of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority buildings, development of cluster development, rental and affordable housing.
Blackstone has bought A Wing and some part of B Wing of the building, which has three wings with a total area of 1.5 million square feet.
Several on-site labourers in the city want to take special trains being run to transport workers back home. The rising number of COVID-19 cases in the city has caused anxiety among them.
These projects will be undertaken by BMC, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation.
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The state government's notification, which was issued earlier in the week, quoted the civil aviation ministry's letter urging quick rehabilitation of slum dwellers due to security threat.
Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a "sad reality". Dev Chatterjee and Raghavendra Kamath report.
A look at few marquee projects that are stuck for several reasons.
Mumbai metropolitan region, comprising Mumbai city, Navi Mumbai and Thane, leads the pack (in delayed projects) with 210,000 units at an approximate valuation of Rs 2.34 trillion.
He also said that it had been decided to give the houses to the MLAs at a certain price and not free of cost.
'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040'
The rise in commuters was also despite the state-run Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority filing a petition against MMOPL on fare fixation.
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