July | 2020 | Citizen Matters, Mumbai

Want safer roads? Become better drivers.

July 31, 2020 Siddharth

In a country where you can literally buy a driving licence, why are we surprised when lakhs of people die in road accidents? The system is flawed and we are complicit.

An apartment complex saved 187 houses from going dry. Here’s how.

July 30, 2020 Dr Bharat Patel

Here’s how an apartment complex managed its water consumption and supply. By harvesting rainwater.

Want to get on Mumbai’s local trains? You’d need a QR code.

July 29, 2020 Hepzi Anthony

From 30 July, entry to the Mumbai suburban rail network will be regulated by a QR-based Electronic-pass system. Many are unhappy with it.

4Ts of Dharavi’s successful pandemic management: Tracing, Tracking, Testing, Treating

July 28, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

The daunting responsibility of managing the outbreak in Dharavi, spread over 2.5 square kilometres packed with 60,000 families. How it was done

Give birds a chance to live naturally

July 27, 2020 Dipti Humraskar Mistry

Do you feed the birds? Find out why it is not a good idea – for them, for the ecosystem and for you.

COVID-19: Numbers dip in Mumbai, surge in neighbouring districts

July 24, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

Insufficient healthcare facilities affect Mumbai Metropolitan Region’s COVID-19 response

The story of Dharavi’s elusive redevelopment

July 22, 2020 Aarohi Damle and Marina Joseph

Dharavi gives us a wake up call that social distancing is physically impossible on 250-odd hectares of land with a population of approximately 8,50,000 residents and where 10 or more people often stay in housing units measuring 250 sq. ft.

Here’s why you think you were charged more for electricity, Mumbaikar

July 20, 2020 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Customers were in for a massive shock when they received their electricity bills in June 2020. Why were the bills so high and what can people do to resolve the issue?

Studies must go on. Internet or no internet.

July 18, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

In the wake of successive lockdowns forced by the pandemic, state education department, teachers and NGOs are devising innovative ways to help students without smartphone and Internet access continue their education.

Want to compost wet waste at home? Learn from this Mumbai couple

July 17, 2020 R S Sreenivasan and Subha Sreenivasan Iyer

They live in a two-bedroom flat with no balcony and that was a reason holding them back for long. Till the lockdown happened. If you want to compost at home too, here’s their complete guide.

How visual artists in Mumbai are reinventing themselves for a post-COVID world

July 16, 2020 Hepzi Anthony

Artists in Mumbai face the same challenges as their counterparts around the world. Even so, many are quietly absorbing, visualising and recreating the imagery sparked by the pandemic.

No income, no food, no government relief: Kamathipura’s sex workers pushed to the brink

July 13, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

With no income and no food for the past three months, the sex workers of Kamathipura are desperate to go back to work, even if it gets them just a cup of tea and bread!

What to do if you’re COVID-19 positive in Mumbai

July 9, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

A step-by-step guide for COVID patients and their families on what to do during the entire phase from testing to cure

High risk, no rewards: What BEST workers get as they keep Mumbai running during COVID-19

July 7, 2020 Hepzi Anthony

After reporting eight deaths of staff members from COVID, BEST management stopped giving out numbers. A union leader puts the death toll at 74 and complains of unjust treatment.