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HomeAuthorsApekshita Varshney

Articles by Apekshita Varshney

About Apekshita Varshney
Apekshita Varshney was Staff Reporter at Citizen Matters Mumbai.
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Society

Mumbai College Offers Course To Understand Hip Hop

April 21, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

In 1997, Stephen Webber, a professor of music production and engineering at the Berklee College of Music, proposed teaching a course in turntablism. What DJs were doing with turntables had opened his eyes to a

Health

Explainer: how to get vaccinated in Mumbai

March 25, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

Here’s a step by step guide to getting vaccinated in Mumbai.

vaccination drive in mumbai
Health

Most Mumbaikars are unaware of the COVID-19 vaccines?

March 23, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

Health workers say many neighbourhoods in the city are unaware of the vaccine and some people are against taking them.

Water Supply

A leak here, a leak there. No way to quantify water wastage in Mumbai

March 12, 2021 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.

mumbai's water supply pipeline
Water Supply

Explainer – How Mumbai gets its water

March 5, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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

Civic

Can Mumbai ever be a 15-minute city?

February 25, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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

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Education

Desperate move to retain students in BMC schools

February 23, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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.

Health

Mumbaikars speak up about the city’s healthcare budget

February 11, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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

Infrastructure

How to make Mumbai a feminist city

February 5, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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

Governance

Here’s where your money goes. An explainer on BMC’s budget

January 29, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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

view of BMC headquarters
Governance

Accountability: how to raise complaints with the BMC

January 23, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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

Civic

Concerned citizens work alongside the municipality. Story of ALMs in Mumbai

January 18, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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

Health

Vaccines are almost here. Time for a large-scale testing system, says a Mumbai team

January 11, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

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.

Economy

COVID19 broke the backs of Mumbai’s informal sector workers. What does 2021 hold in store?

December 28, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

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.

Governance

How powerful are Mumbaikars? Turns out, not that much

December 24, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

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

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