Articles by Apekshita Varshney

BMC has repeatedly tried to move towards a 24X7 water supply to meet the city’s water needs. But, leakages are a major hurdle.

Historically, Mumbai has sourced water from a variety of different lakes. Here’s how it gets its water now.

The concept of the 15-minute city is gaining ground. Can Mumbai be one?

When BMC found that its schools might not have any students left by the year 2028, it started ICSE and CBSE syllabus. Here’s the response.

Unlike cities like Pune which have provisions for participatory budgeting and provisions to accept and incorporate citizen suggestions, BMC does not.

How urban planning needs to pay attention to gender and recognise that women and men experience cities differently.

Who prepares the budget? Where does the money get spent? Who spends it? Some important questions get answered here.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is good at taking citizen complaints. How good is it at redressing these things?

Advanced Locality Management (ALM) is a voluntary body of concerned citizens to take meaningful civic action in the city.

About five years ago, Manoj Gopalkrishnan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, heard about the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus or MERS-COV outbreak.

If the markets stabilise and the economy grows, we would need to understand if the benefit will extend to the labourers, says a city-based NGO which researched on Mumbai’s informal sector.

There is no decentralised urban governance in India, but a new index conceived by a city-based NGO, can help unpack why.