Covid-19 lockdown: BMC orders one road to have only one electronic shop

Till now, Maharashtra has continued to have maximum cases in the country at 15,525

Commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has ordered the Assistant Commissioners that one road will have only one standalone electronic and hardware shop amid lockdown. “I hereby issue orders to the Assistant Commissioners of wards that stand-alone electronic and hardware shop not more than one on each road be given permission to remain open,” Praveen Pardeshi, Commissioner of BMC.

Till now, Maharashtra has continued to have maximum cases in the country at 15,525. This includes 2819 cured/discharged and 617 deaths. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country has reached 49,391, including 14,183 recovered/migrated and 1,694 deaths, as per the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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499 Mumbai buildings at risk of collapsing even as municipal funds dry up

The dire situation in Mumbai is mirrored nationwide, with 1,830 “structural collapses” reported in 2015

With in excess of 40 individuals dreaded caught in the breakdown of a three-storeyed structure in south Mumbai on July 16, 2019- – and 499 structures in the city recognized as comparably powerless – an IndianSpend investigation of city information uncovers that the flame and calamity the board spending plan for India’s monetary capital declined 38% more than three years to 2020.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is India’s most extravagant urban body. The decrease in its fiasco the executives and fire-detachment spending plan unfurled close by a 60% ascent in subsidizing, more than two years to 2020, to manufacture an eight-path, 32-km beach front street along the island-city’s western seaboard, as per our examination of city information from 2015-16 to 2019-20.

The insufficiency of the BMC’s flame and-catastrophe reaction was obvious in the way that just one of every three crisis calls to the flame detachment in south Mumbai got help inside eight minutes- – the universally acknowledged standard- – as per an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Bombay study cited in the Hindustan Times on June 2, 2019.

The IIT study prescribed more flame stations and additional vehicles for the detachment’s armada to more readily support south Mumbai, a territory with 92,312 individuals for each sq km, contrasted with 10,796 for every sq km in New York, a city with 4,000,000 less individuals than Mumbai’s 12.4 million…

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Almost 81% of Mumbai roadside juices, drinks unsafe for consumption: BMC

The civic officials have been regularly inspecting roadside stalls and destroying such contaminated drinks

Almost 81 per cent of juices and drinks being sold on roadside stalls in Mumbai are unsafe for human consumption, according to the city civic body. The health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation last month inspected several stalls on roadsides selling lemonade, sugarcane juice and ice pops. “Out of tor 968 samples of such drinks collected from various stalls, 786 (around 81.1 per cent) were found to be unsafe and unfit for consumption,” a senior civic official said on Wednesday.

The civic body has decided to act tough against vendors selling such unhygienic drinks which may cause water- borne diseases among consumers, he said. “The civic officials have been regularly inspecting roadside stalls and destroying such contaminated drinks. We don’t want to take any chance with people’s health,” he said.

The Central Railway in March banned sale of lemon and other syrup-based juices at food stalls under its jurisdiction after a video of such a drink being prepared unhygienically went viral on social media. The sale of lemon and other synthetically flavoured juices made my mixing water goes up in the summer season, another civic official noted. He, however, appealed to people not to consume such juices being sold on roadside stalls.

Sena steady, BJP makes big gains, Congress decimated in Maha civic polls

Shiv Sena is leading in 84 seats, BJP 80, while Congress 31 in BMC

The ruling Shiv Sena appeared all set to retain control over the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India's biggest and richest civic body, election officials said on Thursday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was pushed to a distant second slot in Mumbai in the civic body elections held across Maharashtra.

Of the 227 BMC seats, the Sena led in 84, still short of the 114 needed for a simple majority.

The BJP had won 80 seats while the Congress was at a distant third with 31 seats to its credit.

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) was poised to win 10 seats, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) eight and the All Indian Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen four.

Stunned by the outcome, Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam offered to resign from the post.

Buoyed by its imminent victory in Mumbai, Shiv Sena supporters celebrated across Mumbai.

The BMC had an annual budget of Rs 37,000 crore in 2016-17. Read more

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