5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (416+ words) Mangaluru City Corporation is preparing a data-driven overhaul of waste management by mapping nearly 900 sanitation workers, drivers and loaders, along with collection vehicles, to identify service gaps and assign clearer responsibility across the city. MCC commissioner Rahul Ratnam Pandey said…...

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19+ hour, 22+ min ago   (294+ words) Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik has warned that any attempt to introduce an Urban Reform Scheme or excessive Floor Space Index (FSI) in Navi Mumbai before completion of an impact assessment report could face legal and street-level opposition. Naik made…...

21+ hour, 24+ min ago   (337+ words) Hyderabad’s Musi flood tree is more than a surviving piece of natural heritage. It is a physical record of how a river disaster reshaped the city, damaged its buildings and infrastructure, and left behind a question that remains relevant to…...

23+ hour, 20+ min ago   (295+ words) Mumbai Coastal Road has become substantially busier since it began operating around the clock, but its first year of 24×7 use also exposes a wider limitation of road-led urban planning: higher traffic on a new corridor does not by itself establish…...

21+ hour, 20+ min ago   (759+ words) urbanacres.in Nashik’s Miyawaki Urban Forest Turns a Dump Yard Into Public Asset The transformation of a decades-old dump yard in Devlali into Nashik’s first Miyawaki urban forest shows how neglected urban land can become an ecological asset, but it…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (281+ words) A cleanup drive at Bengaluru’s Turahalli forest has removed more than two tonnes of waste, including poultry waste, domestic sanitary waste, plastic, medical waste and dog carcasses found in bags along the reserve forest’s boundary. The cleanup began at 8am and…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (840+ words) India’s Tech Manufacturing Push Is Becoming an Urban Infrastructure Test urbanacres.in India’s Tech Manufacturing Push Is Becoming an Urban Infrastructure Test India’s industrial expansion is moving beyond the familiar story of software services and mobile-phone assembly. A Jefferies report,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (426+ words) Mumbai BEST Faces Renewal Demands Over Growing Contractor Reliance urbanacres.in Mumbai BEST Faces Renewal Demands Over Growing Contractor Reliance A civic transport organisation has called for concrete measures to revive the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport undertaking, raising concerns…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (272+ words) A citizens’ action group has called for urgent reforms to revive Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking, warning that increasing privatisation, workforce reductions and a shrinking self-owned fleet could weaken the public transport utility’s service mandate. The forum,…...