The Bombay High Court Friday refused to declare Mumbai's Aarey colony a forest and allowed the felling of more than 2,600 trees to make way for a Metro car shed in the city.
Mumbai’s Metro authority wants to cut 2,646 trees and say Metro will bring environmental benefits to city that will far outweigh damage done by felling trees.
Issue is a bone of contention between BJP and Sena, and Thackeray’s press meet comes as the 2 parties are working out seat-sharing deal for Maharashtra polls.
Just as India’s educated elite have benefited from missionary-run schools, temple donations could be channelled for the economic and educational upliftment of Hindus.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
Loss of green cover is not good news. Mumbai badly needs better infrastructure and environment-friendly and safe means of transport such as Metro. However, the selection of Aarey colony as a site for Metro car shed is a decision which can be debated. The Aarey colony case has brought into spotlight the ‘classic’ development-environment trade-off. The answers are not easy. One can only hope that efficient and successful implementation of the Metro project in the city neutralizes the damage done at Aarey in the long run.
One does not know how the reserves of the RBI are meant – statutorily – to be used. Presumably, to hand out umbrellas on a rainy day. Suppose in this case, the cooperative bank needs an immediate bailout of 5,000 crores, to be disbursed to its panic stricken depositors, and that it holds matching assets that can be realised with a time gap. If the RBI had not written out a cheque for 1.676 trillion, that would have been easier to do. Itna bada banking system hai, pahaad jitne NPAs hain, how could any reasonable person ever say the RBI has “ too much of reserves “ …
How could the RBI have been “ blindsided “ by something that was blowin’ in the wind, for at least three years now ? The uncharitable inference some are drawing is that it was deferring the bad news till the election was over. It is not just on cutting rates, whose futility has been noted today by Dalal Street. There is no longer any respectable distance between Delhi and Bombay. What one desires, the other delivers. By pure telepathy, no invocation of Section 7. Not good for the economy.
The bar for environmental clearances / concerns of citizens being addressed has to be set very high. Occasionally, a project of singular national importance like the Navi Mumbai airport justifies major relaxations. However, the mere fact that a development is a government project – like the Coastal Road – should not entitle it to matter of course exemptions. 2. In this case, the citizens of Bombay have made their voices heard, placed their concerns on record. That should continue.
Loss of green cover is not good news. Mumbai badly needs better infrastructure and environment-friendly and safe means of transport such as Metro. However, the selection of Aarey colony as a site for Metro car shed is a decision which can be debated. The Aarey colony case has brought into spotlight the ‘classic’ development-environment trade-off. The answers are not easy. One can only hope that efficient and successful implementation of the Metro project in the city neutralizes the damage done at Aarey in the long run.
One does not know how the reserves of the RBI are meant – statutorily – to be used. Presumably, to hand out umbrellas on a rainy day. Suppose in this case, the cooperative bank needs an immediate bailout of 5,000 crores, to be disbursed to its panic stricken depositors, and that it holds matching assets that can be realised with a time gap. If the RBI had not written out a cheque for 1.676 trillion, that would have been easier to do. Itna bada banking system hai, pahaad jitne NPAs hain, how could any reasonable person ever say the RBI has “ too much of reserves “ …
How could the RBI have been “ blindsided “ by something that was blowin’ in the wind, for at least three years now ? The uncharitable inference some are drawing is that it was deferring the bad news till the election was over. It is not just on cutting rates, whose futility has been noted today by Dalal Street. There is no longer any respectable distance between Delhi and Bombay. What one desires, the other delivers. By pure telepathy, no invocation of Section 7. Not good for the economy.
The bar for environmental clearances / concerns of citizens being addressed has to be set very high. Occasionally, a project of singular national importance like the Navi Mumbai airport justifies major relaxations. However, the mere fact that a development is a government project – like the Coastal Road – should not entitle it to matter of course exemptions. 2. In this case, the citizens of Bombay have made their voices heard, placed their concerns on record. That should continue.