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Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

Civic

Moving homes is cumbersome. Here’s how you can make it broker-free

January 19, 2021 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Are you wishing that you can escape paying rental brokerage charges in Mumbai? This may help you do it.

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.

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.

Governance

To Mumbai, Lessons from Los Angeles

December 15, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

Mumbai has been selected as a “C40 city”—a consortium of the world’s leading cities taking bold action against climate change. But, what does it lack?

Governance

Care about Mumbai? Here’s what you can do to make it better

December 3, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

RTI and social audits is the way to bring transparency and accountability. Veteran activist, Bhaskar Prabhu laments that few people care about accountability.

Health

COVID-19: Will Mumbai see a spike?

November 7, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

Infectious diseases, historically, have risen and fallen with season. Although numbers of positive COVID-19 cases have fallen, experts advice caution.

Civic

Funding Mumbai’s municipality: many options, no solutions

October 6, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

BMC is cash-strapped. It urgently needs to find newer sources of revenue and improve its financial management.

Civic

How the pandemic hit BMC’s coffers

October 5, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

India’s richest municipal corporation has found itself in a logjam. The pandemic has impaired its ability to meet expenses, even though its budget remains unspent year after year.

Civic

Time to involve Corporators in Mumbai’s fight against COVID-19

August 4, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

In a tussle between the Corporators and senior BMC bureaucrats, COVID-19 relief work in Mumbai is taking a hit.

Education

In e-learning push, corporation schools in Mumbai left in the lurch

June 16, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Little thought is being given to how students of corporation schools will be able to access this, given that for most of them access to quality internet connection and the devices required is severely limited.

Economy

Mumbai 24X7: Maximum city now open for maximum hours of the day

February 14, 2020 Azkeya Tase

In line with a government decision aimed at promoting tourism, Mumbai — the city that never sleeps — is running a pilot project that allows select malls and eateries to stay open all day and night. A week after the experiment started, we asked citizens and businesses about their experience.

Environment

Despite statewide ban, Mumbai still has miles to go before it can be plastic-free

February 11, 2020 Jahanvi J

In March 2018, Maharashtra imposed a blanket ban on the use of plastic in the state, particularly in Mumbai. Almost two years later, the city still finds itself grappling with plastic waste, largely due to patchy implementation by BMC and inadequate attention to processing of discarded plastic.

Education

Mumbai civic body initiative to help school kids cope with mental health issues

October 16, 2019 Jahanvi J

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Smiling School Project will train principals and teachers to identify students facing mental or emotional distress. These students will then receive free counselling. But will it be enough, given the nature and magnitude of the problem?

Civic

Why Mumbaikars are getting angrier about tree felling

July 16, 2019 Hepzi Anthony

Around 500 people from different walks gathered at a public hearing on July 8th to raise their voices against the proposed felling of 2702 trees in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony. This is just the most recent example of growing citizen engagement and efforts to save the green cover of the city.

Civic

Smoggy, but unfazed: Mumbai needs to take air pollution more seriously than it does

June 5, 2019 Apekshita Varshney

For many Mumbaikars, ‘air pollution’ is a Delhi or at most a North Indian problem. Yet, Mumbai air itself says otherwise on many a day. But are city authorities really aware and equipped to take the steps they need to?

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