Infrastructure

Citizen Matters organised a webinar on fire safety in Mumbai where we discussed reasons for fires in Mumbai’s high rises and how they can be prevented.

Citizens successfully helped build an accessible street for specially abled persons, with the help of the BMC and area corporators in Dadar Parsi Colony.

A fire in a 61-storey building has sparked debate on firefighting mechanisms in highrise buildings. Who is responsible for this?

An archival project by two artists is building a repository of Koli history and contemporary traditions, challenging their erasure from the city

The BMC is pushing for cement concretisation of several internal roads in the city to combat the pothole problem. We take a look at what this means.

The Coastal Road project and Eastern waterfront will bring acres of public land into the city. We look at some of the roadblocks to democratic planning.

As infrastructure projects engulf the coastline, Mumbai’s fishermen are finding themselves erased and sidelined from the city.

Many homes in hundreds of landslide prone areas across Greater Mumbai need immediate evacuation and permanent rehabilitation. If not, climate change induced monsoons will worsen the crisis in the coming years.

Every year in the rainy season, residents complain about potholes. This year, Twitter seems to have made all the difference.

Friction between the tenant and the landlord often result in long-drawn out legal battles. A new law is meant to govern the tenant-landlord equation through effective and faster dispute resolution. 

As Golibar residents wait for rehabilitation, citizens wonder what’s holding the government back.

New tenancy law could completely change the status of Pagdi tenants from part owners to mere tenants with no ownership or succession rights.