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BMC is managing Mumbai's infrastructure, environmental, and public safety challenges amid ongoing projects and rising concerns. Coverage includes stalled schemes, pollution crackdowns, extreme weather impacts, and new legal and scientific initiatives.
Residents of Willington Heights have been living in alternate accommodations since August, but the BMC’s long-promised OC Amnesty Scheme is still out of reach. The AutoDCR portal remains non-functional, delaying applications for over a month. Experts question whether the scheme will even work. Officials say it’ll be fixed by Friday.
As monsoon ends, Mumbai hits 37.6°C—five degrees above normal. Air quality plummets. The BMC responds with road washing and a new enforcement plan. But the real test comes when stars step out for events, shoots, and press meets under this haze. The city’s heat isn’t just weather. It’s a condition.
The civic body will enforce its existing 28-point guidelines at construction and demolition sites. Violating sites may face show-cause notices, stop-work orders and, where necessary, sealing action.
Mumbai's road concretisation work restarts October 1 after the monsoon pause, with the BMC prioritising partially completed stretches before tackling fresh roads, just as the city's festive event calendar kicks into gear.
BMC has proposed hiring former Joint Law Officer Preeti Purandare as legal retainer for the Coastal Road North project at Rs 1 lakh a month, to handle CRZ, land and contractor disputes.
The BMC has begun piling and pile-cap work on the Dahisar-Bhayandar Link Road, the last piece of Mumbai's 60-km Coastal Road project, with launching-girder work starting in October and a 2028 completion target.
Mumbai's Ganeshotsav brings its tallest idol yet at 42 feet, but three tall-idol collapses during arrival processions this year, two of them fatal, have renewed calls for the state to cap idol height for good.
The BMC is set to hire NEERI for a Rs 3.01-crore, two-year study into methane emissions and air pollution at the Kanjurmarg dumping ground, after a Bombay High Court directive.