A six-month-long inquiry into how a 230 acre plot at Powai meant for "affordable housing for Mumbaikars" was transformed into a plush haven for the wealthy has resulted in the biggest crackdown on a builder in recent years.
The Hiranandanis who have become synonymous with Powai have been fined Rs 3 crore for violating a 1986 agreement and a report by MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Develop
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The nodal planning agency Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has already admitted that the 135 road accidents and three deaths on the Eastern Express Highway recently were caused due to vehicles skidding on smooth mastic asphalt roads, yet the Brihanmumbai Mu
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The first metro rail corridor project in the city is beginning to move forward with a Chinese company bagging the Rs 604 crore contract to supply 16 trains.
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Mumbai’s ambitious metro rail project today received a shot in the arm with the Centre announcing the sanctioning of Rs 4,500 crore for its completion.
“Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had requested for funds from the Centre. The Centre is sanctioning Rs 4,500 crore as viability gap funding for the Mumbai Metro Rail Project (MMRP)” Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy said.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which plans to construct 50 skywalks across the city, will start work on the first pilot skywalk-cum-elevated hawking plaza at Kanjurmarg by October.
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With work on the second and third line of the Mumbai Metro project expected to begin later this year, the Maharashtra Government may turn to the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) for financial assistance, officials said here.
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Constructing a 233-metre concrete bridge 17 metres above the ground with crush-packed local trains zipping past down below; constructing a viaduct at 7 metres above the Andheri flyover on Western Express Highway—that’s a sampling of the engineering challenges whose high-precision solutions are getting fine-tuned in the office of the Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai Metro One, which is the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative for a MRTS project in India, is working in close coordination with the Tree Authority to arrive at a final decision on the number of trees that might hamper the construction work of the Mumbai Metro project.
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The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has got the go-ahead from Central Railway (CR) for single-window clearance for the Rs 600-crore skywalk project in the city.
MMRDA chief Ratnakar Gaikwad had a talk with CR general manager Soumiya Raghavan about creating a single-window clearance to speed up the projects. Over 50 skywalks are planned for the city.
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Stung by the depreciating dollar that has sliced Rs 300 crore out of the original value of the World Bank loan for the landmark Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP), the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is now preparing to “delete” components worth that amount from the mega project.
In the first phase of this project, the state is planning for the Mumbai-Nagpur railway corridor through Marathwada.
The high speed rail system will integrate the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). So suburbs like Thane, Dombivli, Badlapur and Navi Mumbai too will be connected.
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The Centre has refused to fund two of Mumbai's biggest projects -- the Mithi river and the Mumbai Metro Link Phase I, running from Versova/Andheri to Ghatkopar.
Why ?
In the first case, the Finance Ministry rejected the project under JNNURM on grounds that the river - which begins in Powai and ends in Mahim - is a river and not 'a sewerage'.
Mumbaikars could soon find relief from the crowded suburban trains in the form of state-of-the-art magnetic levitation (or maglev) trains running at speeds of up to 300 kmph.
A senior state government official said: “The proposed high-speed rail is for 6 routes in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, including potential maglev lines.
Even as the grand plan to give the Queen’s Necklace a makeover hits another roadblock with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) now battling over who should undertake Phase 2, another seafront restoration scheme quietly won accolades at the Deutsche Bank Urban Age awards on Thursday.
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Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd—the special purpose vehicle executing the 11.4-km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro Rail corridor—will inaugurate the first public information centre at Saki Naka.
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