Contractors maintaining city roads, which are under the defect liability period (DLP), now face the risk of losing their contracts, if they fail to repair potholes on time.

Filthy building and house gullies may soon be a thing of the past, as the BMC is planning to implement the garbage chute project in the city.

The water crisis in the city has made the BMC give a fresh fillip to the rainwater-harvesting system. It has now decided to form a special rainwater-harvesting cell to create public awareness about this water saving method.

A windfall awaits the corporators, as their honourarium will now rise from Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000. They are also likely to get a substantial hike of up to `1.10 crore in their civic development funds.
The notice of motion tabled by standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale to prov

The rehabilitation of project affected persons (PAPs) continues to remains a stumbling block in the BMC’s ambitious river widening project, which has already been delayed by seven years.

The BMC is withdrawing security guards from key water installations, even as it is still installing CCTVs and watch towers at dams and water purification centres.

Just four months after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) scoffed at a suggestion to take over private wells in the city, it is now reconsidering the proposal due to insufficient rains in th

In a first-of-its-kind initiative by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Global Positioning System (GPS) will now be used to survey trees in the city. The tree census, which is carried out every five years, will start once the monsoons get over.

The cave-in on Peddar Road on Thursday may not be the last of the road’s problems.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s efforts to ensure pothole free roads in the city has again encountered a hurdle, after one of its much touted cold-mix technologies failed to deliver results t