Vol. 28 No. 16 RNI No.54695 / 87 Reg. No. G/MH/MR/NMD/98/12-14., 20 Dec 2014 to 26 Dec 2014 Pages 12, Rs. 1
Traffic
diversion for
India Super
League finals
Film stars, politicians and
thousands of football fans are
expected to come to D.Y. Patil
stadium in Nerul on Saturday to
watch the India Super League
finals. It will be played between
Kerala Blasters FC and winner of
second semifinal of the second
leg, which will be played between
FC Goa and Atletico de Kolkata.
The traffic department has made
special arrangement for vehicular
movement. 'No parking' zone has
been made around the stadium to
avoid traffic congestion. Vehicles
coming from Mumbai will not
able to take right turn at LP
junction for Nerul node. All the
vehicles can enter Nerul from
Uran Phata. Similarly, vehicles
from Nerul cannot take SionPanvel highway from LP
junction. They have to go via
Palm Beach Road. Even vehicles
coming from Panvel will have to
enter Nerul from Uran Phata
instead of LP junction.
Garbage
proposal to
take off in
January
The general body and standing
committee of NMMC may have
cleared the garbage collection and
transportation proposal this
month but the actual work is
likely to take off by January end.
Now contractors are planning to
buy new 119 vehicles and small
tempos for collection of garbage
and its transportation. They will
start their work from one ward
and then expand to other nodes,
informed a senior official of
NMMC.
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Greenfield airport to be operational by 2019: CM
By: Ankush Verma
Belapur: Maharashtra
chief minister Devendra
Fadnavis on Thursday,
informed the state
Legislative Council at
Nagpur that the proposed
international airport in
Navi Mumbai is expected
to be operational by 2019.
Responding to a
question raised by
Congress leaders Sanjay
Dutta and Bhai Jagtap and
others, Fadnavis said the
process of getting permits
and licences from the
various departments will be
completed by next January
and the first phase of the
airport will begin
operations by 2019.
The proposed airport
has already acquired 592hectares of land and all
major clearances had been
received. “Only a few sanctions
are pending and we expect to have
all the clearances by January
2015,” he said.
Fadnavis said the greenfield
airport - to be of world-class
standards - is expected to cost
Environmentalists sore with
non functional 'task force'
By: Meena R. Prashant
Belapur: The environmentalists
and nature lovers who are trying
their best to save mangroves in the
city are sore with the non
functional 'task force' formed by
the Maharashtra Coastal
NMMC ready to
build more toilets
By: Meena R. Prashant
Belapur: The Navi Mumbai
Municipal Corporation (NMMC)
is ready to build additional toilets
against the existing 416 toilets
under its jurisdiction if the
Bombay High Court directs it to
do so.
“While the matter is still in
court, if we get directives from the
High Court, we will definitely
build more toilets for the
convenience of the residents,”
remarked A.L. Jarhad,
Commissioner, NMMC.
The court is currently hearing
the PIL filled by a Pune based
NGO over “Right to Pee for
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Management Zone Authority
(MCZMA) over three years ago.
Formed in December 2011
after a government regulation by
the state environment, the 'task
force' comprises of top officials
Contd.on pg.09
Commuters demand
better security at
Seawoods station
By: Ankush Verma
Seawoods:
With beggars,
urchins and illegal vendors
occupying the platform, security
has gone for a toss at Seawoods
railway station. The residents
allege that these beggars not only
harass the commuters but also
misuse the public facility being
provided at the station.
“Some of the beggars have
turned the platform into their
homes. Earlier, only few could be
spotted at the station. However,
now there number has increased
manifold. Not only they harass the
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basis.
The announcement
follows the granting of
environmental clearance
for the project followed
by the ministry of civil
aviation approving the
regulatory regime of
'Shared Till' for the new
airport.
The double-runway
NMIA is designed to ease
congestion of the existing
single-runway operations
of Mumbai's Chhatrapati
Shivaji International
Airport.
In preparations for the
upcoming NMIA, the
City and Industrial
D e v e l o p m e n t
Corporation (CIDCO),
This pic is used for representational purpose only
which is overseeing the
construction of the
around Rs.14,500 crore, in the
project, has already embarked on
public-private-partnership mode
a Rs.20,000 crore infrastructure
on a design, build, finance,
development of the nodes it
operate and transfer (DBFOT)
manages in the airport vicinity.
Contd.on pg.09