QMumbai: BMC’s Plans For Coastal Road; 8% Less Water This Monsoon
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1. Mumbai Got 8% Less Water This Monsoon
This year’s monsoon gave Mumbai eight per cent fewer water stock (13,13,960 million litres) than last year (14,34,103 million litres). Consequently, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is now looking at the measures to be taken – getting water from other source or imposing water cuts – in the coming months.
According to civic officials, the stock available in the seven lakes that supply water to the city is 90.78%, sufficient to last 304 days, as opposed to the 335-day stock needed to ensure there are no water cuts till the next monsoon.
Source: Hindustan Times
2. Mumbai Civic Body Plans Escape Routes, Safe Room, Better Ventilation for Coastal Road
Placing safety first, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ambitious 29.2-km coastal road — from Princess Street Flyover to Kandivli — will have an advanced ventilation system, emergency escape routes and a safe room for its underground tunnel, said civic officials.
Last week, the BMC gave a final approval for the construction of the first phase (southern part) of the coastal road, estimated at more than ₹12,000 crore. The first phase of the project is a 9.98-km stretch between Princess Street flyover and Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL). This phase will include a 3.45km, 11m-wide underground tunnel from Princess Street flyover to Priyadarshini Park, running under Girgaum Chowpatty and Malabar Hill.
Source: Hindustan Times
3. 100-Plus Statements Helped Net Nirav Modi’s Properties
More than a hundred witness statements recorded by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its money-laundering probe into the Rs 13,600-crore Punjab National Bank fraud helped the agency in provisionally attaching assets worth Rs 637 crore of Nirav Modi and his family members, said agency sources. The assets were spread over Mumbai and several locations in four countries.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
4. Kidney Transplant Racket: ‘I Had Orders’: Suspect’s Claim Suggests More Officials Were Involved
One of the two men arrested for allegedly demanding Rs 1.5 lakh to finalise a kidney transplant has claimed he was following seniors’ orders, prompting the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate the possibility of a bigger illegal scheme involving more officials.
Tushar Savarkar, a coordinator of the Zonal Transplant Authorisation Committee at the state-run JJ Hospital, made the claim in his statement, as the government moved quickly to tackle the crisis and open a separate inquiry. The Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) suspended the committee, which until now approved all live organ transplants in Maharashtra, including those performed at private hospitals. The panel will not review or clear any requests while the inquiry is underway. DMER will handle the work for now.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
5. Women, Toddler Fall To Their Deaths After Slab Covering Well Breaks In Vile Parle
Two women and a child died and seven others badly injured after the concrete slab covering a well in Jui bungalow, Vile Parle, collapsed last evening, plummeting the 20-odd women sitting on it inside. The incident happened during an annual puja that was being performed at the well, around 6.30 pm. The the local police along with the fire brigade rushed to the spot. Around 8.15 pm, the fire brigade started dewatering the well using pumps.
Four victims were sent to Babasaheb Gawde hospital, where one 35-year-old woman was declared dead on arrival. The other deceased are a three-year-old and a 48-year-old woman. Four others — Mahek Gupta, 11, Jiyalal Gupta, 38, Geeta Gupta, 36, and Sumitra Gupta, 47 — are admitted at VN Desai hospital. Most have sustained injuries to arms and legs but are in stable condition.
Source: Mid-day
6. Builder Loses Home, Farmhouse & Wife’s Jewels in Debt Battle
Troubled builder Pujit Aggarwal’s family has lost possession of its sprawling Gamdevi apartment, a Khandala holiday home and jewellery worth Rs 2 crore in a financial dispute with a fellow developer.
The Bombay High Court last week dismissed a claim of Aggarwal’s wife Gunjan, who partly owns the Mumbai apartment and the Khandala house, that she was not liable for her husband’s debts, thus allowing attachment of the assets.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
7. 67-Yr-Old Trips on Broken Footpath, Twists Her Ankle
When senior citizen Dr Rashmi Poddar, a Nepean Sea Road resident, stepped out for a morning walk last week, she failed to notice a dislodged paver block on the pavement near Petit Hall, going towards Priyadarshani Park last.
Poddar, 67, slipped, fell and twisted her ankle. She somehow managed to walk home to her Brij Kutir residence, where she called a doctor.
Source: Mumbai Mirror