Right from basic issues like lack of public toilets, Chaitanya Marpakwar, finalist of our Professional Achievement category, covers civics & politics for the TOI group & writes on complex urban planning issues. -
#UKAlumniAwards
#StudyUK
Big breaking.
@CMOMaharashtra
will pay for migrants train fare in Sharmik Express from Maharashtra CM’s Relief Fund. For all migrants from Maharashtra to their home states and migrants from outside back to Maharashtra. Big decision by
@OfficeofUT
Big win for Shiv Sena. Dadra & Nagar Haveli And Daman & Diu lead of Sena’s Kalaben Delkar crosses 50,000. First Lok Sabha win for Sena outside Maharashtra.
@rautsanjay61
has big reason to celebrate.
@ShivsenaComms
Amid shortage of beds in Mumbai Jumbo Covid centers & Seven Hills Hospital have been real life savers. Jumbos haven’t refused a single patient. Must thank then MC Praveen Pardeshi for jumbos & SevenHills. He singlehandedly got them up & running. 1000s of lives saved.
Cong offers
@ShivSena
to lead government, to keep BJP out. Sena really turning out to be kingmaker. But if Sena + (Cong +NCP) formula works, Sena can be king.
@MumbaiMirror
Breaking.
#covid19
testing rates reduced in Maharashtra. Private labs testing charges now ₹2200 for bulk collection from hospitals or govt centers. Home collection rate now ₹2800. You can now get tested via private labs for ₹2800
@MumbaiMirror
@rajeshtope11
@CMOMaharashtra
Rumour alert. Not locust swarms in Mumbai. BMC clarifies photos of locusts being circulated on social media are not from Mumbai. Warns of action against those spreading rumours. There are no locusts swarms spotted in Mumbai so far.
Two Indian firms Hetero and Cipla get DGCI nod to make generic versions of antiviral drug Remdesivir. Prices at ₹5000-6000, vials will hit the market in a week
@MumbaiMirror
@drvgsomani
Not Rs 20 crore, BMC’s Bandra -Mahim Fort boardwalk-cum-cycle track to cost Rs 168cr. Original plan costing ₹20 crore pitched by citizens dropped, mega ₹168 crore plan picked. This is costing ₹44 crore per km, probably the costliest cycle track ever
Absolute honour to receive the Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in journalism in the civic journalism category (2019) from the honourable Chief Justice of India, Justice DY Chandrachud. This will remain my most cherished moment.
@RamnathGoenka
@IndianExpress
#RNGAwards
BMC’s social media spending! Netas slam BMC over 34 Twitter handles, ₹2 cr/year cost to run them. Many unverified. ₹5.8 cr contract for 3 years, no tenders. No audit of reach/engagement. Tenders stuck since March
@rais_shk
@AmeetSatam
@VinodMishra4U
Imp alert. BMC to stop fining people for not wearing masks inside their private vehicles. However those who don’t wear masks in public transport will be fined. BMC issues new directions to clean up marshals.
@mybmc
Tax payers money down the drain? In 10 years, BMC spent Rs 7000 crore on desilting, Storm Water Drain works reveals RTI filed by BJP MLA
@AmeetSatam
. ₹1000 crore spent on nullah safai alone but Mumbai still floods
@BJP4Maharashtra
@BJP4Mumbai
@BJP4India
This is big news. Four private labs get ICMR approval to start testing.
1.Thyrocare Mumbai
2. Suburban Diagnostics Mumbai
3. Metropolis Healthcare Ltd Mumbai
4. Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre,
Mumbai
#coronavirus
#CoronaUpdatesInIndia
IMP. Covid patients can send complaints of overcharging at Mumbai pvt hospitals to auditors:
Fort/Colaba to Bandra
COVID19NODAL1
@MCGM
.GOV.IN
Andheri to Dahisar and from Sion to Mulund to
COVID19NODAL2
@MCGM
.GOV.IN
Attach bills, details & Covid reports.
Woman (62) admitted to BKC covid center. Moved due to cyclone Nisarga to Sion Hosp. Family told she’s at NSCI. Dies at Sion. Family keeps looking. Body marked unclaimed at Sion Hosp. Police take body to cremate. Family finds out after 50 hrs
@MumbaiMirror
More than 14 hours after 11 people died due to sun stroke at Maharashtra govt event, no enquiry announced. No heads have rolled. This was a state govt organised programme. NMMC, Navi Mumbai police & Raigad Collectorate were all involved.
#MaharashtraBhushanAward
Second consecutive day of low testing in Mumbai. Mumbai tested only 30428 samples. Day before it was 28328 tests. Drop in cases is great, but testing has to be consistent. Mumbai was testing around 49K per day till a few weeks ago.
Worli-Koliwada, Mumbai’s first containment zone, gets de-contained today. More than a month after being declared a containment zone, restrictions to be eased for 42,000 residents. No new cases, 53 patients cured so far
@mumbaimirror
@mybmcWardGS
Good news! Maharashtra govt books 60,000 Remdesivir vials at Rs 3,392 each amid reports of black marketing. Drug to be available for all public & private hospitals. Deliveries to begin next week
@MumbaiMirror
@Awhadspeaks
@Maha_MEDD
#covid19Maharashtra
Another foreign tour cum vacation for babus? 19 officials of Maharashtra’s rural development department went on a 2 week trip to Australia-New Zealand to study rural roads in August. 3 months on, they haven’t submitted mandatory post study tour report reveals RTI.
Imp. From Sunday BMC docs will examine patients before allotting beds. Home visit and medical examination made mandatory for all Covid patients before bed allocation. Only those who need beds to be given beds based on medical condition.
Every minister coming out of the Maharashtra state cabinet is giving statements on lockdown. Seems there’s a race between Sena, Congress and NCP to make the announcement. All ministers want to break the story. Let the CM announce.
Breaking. No mandatory medical certificate required for stranded migrant workers in Maharashtra for going home. Screening to be done by state government/municipal corporation doctors before start of journey free of cost. Individual certificate not required.
@MumbaiMirror
Big shout out to Addl Municipal Commissioner (Health) Suresh Kakani on his Bday. Been the biggest pillar of Mumbai’s fight against Covid. Man on a mission since Feb 2020. Field visits, planning, setting up hospitals, med supplies, & vaccines. Hasn’t let us down even for a day.
Mumbai oxygen management model. 16 plants were to be set up in 30 days. After 45 days, BMC gives ₹84 crore contract to Highway Construction Co penalised in penguin enclosure scam & manufacturer blacklisted by medical college in Jaipur at double the cost
Incredible feat by BMC. 38-bed ICU built at Mulund octroi naka from scratch in just over a week. Awaiting oxygen to start admitting patients
@timesofindia
@mihirkotecha
BMC gets rap from HC once again. HC asks why is BMC not accepting Rutuja Latke’s resignation and discriminating against her, a class 3 employee, if she has complied with the rules. HC asks BMC to say at 2:30 PM whether it will accept her resignation or not.
If Ex-CP Parambir Singh was so concerned about the ₹100 crore extortion racket, he should have written the letter when it was happening or stopped it. Day after being sacked, comes his letter bomb.
Breaking.
@mybmc
issues notice to
#KanganaRanaut
. BMC asks her to reply in 24 hours about alleged ‘illegal alteration and construction’ at her premises in Khar West. In case, she fails to reply, the BMC will demolish the ‘illegal portion’
Imp breaking. Maharashtra govt to temporarily reduce stamp duty on flats from 5% to 2% till December 31. From Jan 1 till March 31, the stamp duty will be 3%. Boost to stagnant real estate market, which has been badly hit following the pandemic
#lockdown
last March
@MumbaiMirror
Kanjurmarg was 2015 panel’s top choice for Metro 3 car shed, but Fadnavis govt said no. Read details of theTechnical Committee Report (TCR)
@MumbaiMirror
Breaking. CM Uddhav Thackeray announcees that all grocery shops, chemists and other essential services can remain open for 24 hours. These shops will have to follow the rules of social distancing.
@MumbaiMirror
Breaking. Good news.
Shops in Mumbai can remain open on all days on all sides of the road. Malls to be operational from 9 am-7 pm. Odd even day rule for shops scrapped.
@mybmc
issues official orders
@MumbaiMirror
Remdesivir scam. BMC paying 2.5 times more for Remdesivir. BMC buys 2 lakh vials at ₹1568 per vial. Haffkine BioPharma Corp Ltd buys at ₹665 per vial
@timesofindia
@rais_shk
@VinodMishra4U
@AmeetSatam
documents in thread.
It can happen only in
@mybmc
. First a road construction firm gets a penguin enclosure contract after submitting fake letters & documents. Penalised. Now same firm gets oxygen pipeline contract at Nesco Covid Center
@mumbaimirror
@mihirkotecha
IMP alert for Mumbai. IMD upgrades warning to Extremely heavy rainfall in Mumbai for next few hours ... gusty wind will continue and escalate upto 120kmph
Romell Realtors gets ₹10.90 crore contract for setting up Nesco Covid Care Center. No tenders, no experience but
@mybmc
doles out work orders
@AmeetSatam
@mihirkotecha
Here’s the 2015 Technical Committee Report (TCR). TCR recommended car shed at Kanjurmarg. Had asked GoM to allot Kanjurmarg land in 3 months. Experts said Kanjurmarg was best suited for car shed, not AAREY. This report was ignored, overruled.
@MumbaiMirror
👇🏼These are the people who voted to cut trees at Aarey Colony at the Tree Authority meeting on Thursday. If he/she is your corporator, must ask them why?
@MumbaiMirror
@saveaarey
@Save_Aarey
Big breaking. DGCI
@drvgsomani
gives permission to Cipla and Hetero to manufacture and market life saving Remdesivir in India. Emergency approval given. Companies will have to share clinical data of patients
@MumbaiMirror
This is how a back door entry looks like. Blacklisted for 5 years for shoddy road works in July 2018. Gets hearing. Blacklisting reduced to just a 2 year ‘ban’ (which has no legal validity) in September 2018. Bags Mithi river desilting contracts in 2021 & 2022.
@advanilparab
Mumbai new cases drop but Covid deaths still touch 70 today.
#Mumbai
reports 3,876 new
#Covid19
cases, 70 deaths and 9,150 recoveries today. 26.04.2021. 8PM
Hindmata by far wins the first place for Mumbai’s most visited flooding spot for netas and babus. Closest to South Mumbai, easy to access, on the main road and many vantage points for photos to shoot dramatic water logging images.
₹1,500 crore spent on Mithi river. Money down the drain?
@AUThackeray
& BMC officials promise visible changes in 2022: “You will see impact in 6-8 months. River won’t turn blue but will become clean & surroundings will be green,” says
@AUThackeray
Dr Sudhakar Shinde, Jt Secy, Public Health dept has been a one man army in Maharashtra’s Covid fight. He got
80:20 bed reservation in all hospitals
Rate capping fr Covid treatment
Price capping of N95 masks &
Rt-PCR testing rates
Reducing Remdesivir rates
@CMOMaharashtra
BJP demands to make slum dwellers living on 1st floor be made eligible in (SRA) schemes. Shinde-Fadnavis govt to issue GR. This may help stuck projects, but will be a bonanza for builders & see a spurt in 1st floor slum const. Will open Pandora’s box, set a never ending cycle.
The great Mumbai concrete road mess. 4 months after giving work orders for ₹6080 crore 400 km Cement Concrete (CC) roads, BMC forced to impose ₹16 crore penalty as 3 out of 5 companies fail to start work & delays. Looks like this is not a contract anymore but a conjob.
Sad news.
@mybmc
Assistant Municipal Commissioner dies due to
#COVID19
in Mumbai. He’s was leading from the front, fighting
#covid
since March on the field. Over 100
#BMC
staffers have died due to Covid so far. 2000+ infected.
@MumbaiMirror
#covid19Mumbai
Imp update. Covid testing gets cheaper. Maha govt reduces Covid-19 Rt-PCR testing rates. Now test @ ₹2000 for home collection of samples. ₹1600 for sample collection from Covid care centers, hospitals. ₹1200 for walk in testing at labs.
@CMOMaharashtra
@rajeshtope11
@Maha_MEDD
Maha govt to turn 700 acres of mangrove land in Manori into ‘reserved forest’. MTDC tells Forest Dept’s Mangrove Cell to earmark mangrove land it’s owns in Manori-Gorai belt, to be handed over soon
@mumbaimirror
@AUThackeray
@maha_tourism
#forestcity
Good news. Dharavi has reported zero COVID cases on Friday. First time since 1st of April that 0 case is reported. Total 12 active cases in Dharavi now
@TOIMumbai
Another day another scam. BMC’s ₹42 crore sanitary pad vending machine scam. BMC orders 5000 units but city has 1900 ladies toilets. ₹40,000 on GeM portal but BMC buys at ₹76,000/unit. Delhi Co bags contract in 1st bid. Machines installed are defunct & rotting in the rain.