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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Topic: MMRDA

Infra projects to boost connectivity in 129 villages around Mumbai, MMRDA wants planning rights

MMRDA has identified 129 villages in the region & categorised them into 8 ‘growth centres’, wants to be special planning authority to ‘avoid haphazard development’

Trams could return to Mumbai as city works to decongest traffic in Bandra Kurla Complex

Nearly 60 years after trams were phased out from Mumbai, the city’s development authority is considering bringing them back as a feeder service to plug last mile connectivity.

How a new, independent team hopes to improve Mumbai’s sluggish monorail system

Since the Mumbai monorail's inception in 2014, it has been plagued with low ridership and technical glitches.

Congested Mumbai sees Thackeray govt, metro authorities struggle to find space for car sheds

Six metro lines are under construction in Mumbai and the initial work on three more is under way. But acquisition of land for most car depots is becoming a contentious issue.

Congress leaders Sanjay Nirupam, Milind Deora condemn Aarey tree felling

The opposition leaders came out against Mumbai Metro move to fell trees in Aarey Colony, calling it 'stabbing yourself in the lungs'.

Mumbai’s monorail is only 5 years old and is already struggling to source spares and rakes

For Mumbai monorail rakes contract, the MMRDA has extended the deadline for bidders twice and relaxed eligibility criteria.

Mumbai’s development body has I-T dues of Rs 8,000 crore. But it doesn’t want to pay

MMRDA was brought within the tax bracket in 2015. It’s now appealing against the tax, saying it doesn’t have a profit motive.

Decongestion projects on the cards, Mumbai to see hectic building activity from October

The projects - a sea link, a coastal road and two new elevated metro lines – are worth nearly Rs 45,000 crore.

Boats to the rescue: Waterways to help decongest Mumbai’s packed roads & locals

Roll-on-roll-off and passenger-only ferry services likely soon, could cut travel time by 80 per cent.

Audit to determine if Mumbai Cricket Association misused prime Bandra-Kurla Complex plot

MMRDA looking for consultant to go through politically-powerful MCA’s account books and see if it violated terms of the lease signed between the two in 2004.

On Camera

Anand Gandhi is taking his biggest moonshot from Goa— vaanars, rakshasis, manushyas

Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi moved to Goa to synthesise big ideas and build an Indian sci-fi mythiverse with MAYA. ‘In a way, the job title in the East for this enterprise is the Buddha.’

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.