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HC to decide pond case in December; hope floats for Kharghar residents

The high court has given a stay order on any activity in and around the pond till it decides the case.

Residents have been fighting to save the pond at Sector 19 in Kharghar in Navi Mumbai.(HT image)

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Updated on Sep 14, 2019 02:37 AM IST

Navi Mumbai | ByPadmja Sinha

Send notice to trust to recover damages due to encroachment of land in Navi Mumbai, high court tells MIDC

After the demolition of the temples, Thakur filed yet another plea in the court, alleging that no action has been taken against MIDC officials, though the encroachment on their land was a fact known to its officials, up to the chief executive officer.

Thakur had filed the PIL alleging that the alleged large-scale usurpation of the public property in TTC Industrial Area was committed by the nephew of a former minister.(HT image)

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Updated on Sep 14, 2019 02:22 AM IST

Mumbai | ByKanchan Chaudhari

Quick-fix solution: Cidco repairs craters overnight for CM visit

Residents claimed as the work was done in haste, it will not last long and the potholes will reappear once it starts raining.

In the past few months, the residents’ association of Kharghar wrote five letters to Cidco, requesting them to fix the potholes, but Cidco only gave false promises.(HT image)

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Updated on Sep 12, 2019 12:36 AM IST

Navi Mumbai | ByPadmja Sinha

Maharashtra to cap houses allotted under government schemes to one per family

Currently, there are restrictions on availing a house through a government scheme in the same district. Therefore, an individual, who for instance already has a house in Pune or Thane, can apply for another house in Mumbai under a government scheme.

The state cabinet on Monday cleared a proposal to create a policy that will render a person ineligible for a house through a government scheme if he or his immediate family has been allotted a house through scheme anywhere in Maharashtra.(Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Sep 10, 2019 12:23 AM IST

Mumbai | BySwapnil Rawal, Mumbai

Navi Mumbai Metro inches closer to reality

Cidco has divided the Navi Mumbai Metro project into four phases. The first phase of 11.10km (which is now under implementation) starts from Belapur railway station and ends to Pendhar near Taloja.

A Metro train rumbles out of the yard at Taloja recently. It ran for 3km till Pendhar. Cidco said the first phase would be ready by August 2020.(Bachchan Kumar/ HT)

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Updated on Sep 07, 2019 01:27 AM IST

Mumbai | ByPranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Navi Mumbai

Couple riding bike on bridge washed away in Panvel’s Gadi river

Aditya Ambre, 30, and his wife Sarika, 28, had to cross the bridge over Gadi river as it is the only access to the main road from their home in Umroli village.

The missing couple has been identified as Aditya Amre, 30, and Sarika Amre, 28. at Panvel in Navi Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 10, 2019 08:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Navi Mumbai | ByPranab Jyoti Bhuyan

Navi Mumbai airport: Displaced residents ask where their polling booths are

Around 20,000 affected residents alleged that there has been no coordination from the election officials about voting guideline for the project-affected people

In past few months, most of the residents from core Navi Mumbai airport area have been shifted to the nodes planned by Cidco(Hindustan Times)

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Published on Apr 04, 2019 12:54 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPadmja Sinha, Navi Mumbai

With no tidal water, Navi Mumbai loses 4.5 acres of wetland

Activists alleged that the road expansion work of NH-348 destroyed the 4.5 acres of mangrove patch.

The patch of mangrove at CSF Punjab Warehouse dried as tidal water flow was stopped.(Ht PHOTO)

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Published on Mar 09, 2019 12:36 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPadmja Sinha, Navi Mumbai

Navi Mumbai airport: Cidco extends deadline for PAP to vacate their villages

Cidco has agreed to give the special incentive of ₹500 per sq ft to the villagers who give their consent and demolish their houses by November 7

Navi Mumbai airport site at Panvel.(HT Photo)

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Published on Oct 12, 2018 11:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByG Mohiuddin Jeddy, Navi Mumbai

Clear the gateway to green: Activist to move court over Panje wetlands in Navi Mumbai

On September 28, Navi Mumbai residents and environmentalists filed a complaint with the state, alleging City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) was shutting the high tide water ingress by blocking 76 gates at Panje

The destruction of Panje wetlands in Uran, Navi Mumbai, in less than six months.(Aishwarya Sridhar)

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Published on Oct 09, 2018 12:23 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Cidco killing mangroves in Navi Mumbai: Activists

Activists said Cidco was violating the order and dumping truckloads of debris around the mangroves to reclaim the area

A JCB levels debris dumped near mangroves at Navin Sheva.(Bachchan Kumar/HT)

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Published on Sep 21, 2018 11:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPadmja Sinha, Navi Mumbai

Declare all mangrove lands in state as reserved forests: Bombay HC

The court was responding to multiple pleas filed by environmentalists.

This order strengthens mangrove protection in Maharashtra, said experts.(HT file)

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Updated on Sep 18, 2018 03:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

State to Bombay HC: Kharghar pond that residents want to save is not a wetland

Residents who had petitioned the HC to seek protection for the wetland, have refuted the claim and have said MRSAC’s own website identifies the water body as a lake or pond

Murbi Talao at Sector 18/19 Kharghar in Navi Mumbai(HT File)

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Published on Sep 11, 2018 01:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Promises of speedy work aside, Navi Mumbai airport still seems a way off

Less than 40% of the families whose homes and farms will make way for the project have moved to resettlement sites, although the deadline was July 2018.

A notice indicating the site of the Navi Mumbai International Airport in Ulwe. (Bachchan Kumar/ HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 06, 2018 02:32 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNeha LM Tripathi, Mumbai

SEZ to industrial city: Maharashtra govt will ask NMSEZ promoters to pay ₹2,500 cr

A committee of senior officials led by the state’s chief secretary had been tasked with finalising the modalities of the transfer, including working out a penalty as the promoters failed to meet the deadlines and milestones of the SEZ project.

While Cidco has 26 per cent stake in the NMSEZ, the rest is held by Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani’s personal entities.(REUTERS File)

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Updated on Sep 06, 2018 02:13 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByKetaki Ghoge, Mumbai

Panel to probe Kharghar land scam

One-member commitee to look at allotments made to Koyna project-affected over the past 15 years

The Kharghar land was given to Koyna project-affected persons who later sold it to a builder(HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 21, 2018 12:54 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByFaisal Malik, Mumbai

25,000 low cost houses in Navi Mumbai in a year, announces CM Fadnavis

The state has also directed the corporation to build 1 lakh affordable houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in the next four years for the poor.

CM Fadnavis at the launch of Cidco’s mega housing scheme on Monday.(HT Photo)

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Published on Aug 14, 2018 12:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurendra Gangan

Quarrying shrinks Parsik hill to an eyesore

Residents and activists have sounded the alarm and are fighting to save the hills

A few months ago, environmentalists and green groups joined hands and wrote to the chief minister to intervene.(Bachachan Kumar/HT)

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Published on Aug 10, 2018 11:56 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByG Mohiuddin Jeddy, Navi Mumbai

Bombay High Court order flouted: Debris dumped at Khargar pond

On June 7, the high court had asked Cidco to not dump debris near the pond

Sacks of debris dumped near the holding pond at Sector 19 in Kharghar. Residents have been fighting to save it.(BACHCHAN KUMAR/HT PHOTO)

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Published on Jul 28, 2018 12:52 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPadmja Sinha, Navi Mumbai

Navi Mumbai metro project delayed again, to start in 2020

Your wait to take a ride in the metro train got longer.

First ride by metro at Kharghar in Navi Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, July 4, 2018. (Photo by Bachchan Kumar/ Hindustan Times)(Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Jul 05, 2018 12:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Navi Mumbai

Cidco asks BNHS to study impact of airport project on birds in Navi Mumbai

BNHS officials said they will be monitoring the proposed NIMA site for the next 10 years

The study will focus on the impact on birds as the project progresses.(HT file)

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Updated on Jun 30, 2018 12:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByG Mohiuddin Jeddy, Navi Mumbai

As Cidco plot rates slide, Mumbai builders turn cautious about buying land

Plots in Navi Mumbai are selling at ₹1.33 lakh per square metre as opposed to ₹2.92 lakh per square metre three years ago

For years, builders purchased land at exorbitant prices for Cidco plots resulting in speculative realty market.(HT Photo)

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Published on Jun 21, 2018 12:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNaresh Kamath, Mumbai

Defunct octroi nakas could be used to decongest entry-exit points to the city

The MSRDC plans to utilise the space of the octroi nakas to expand the toll plazas currently in use

Octri nakas have gone defunct following the launch of GST(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 19, 2018 12:07 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurendra P Gangan, Mumbai

Cidco official booked for accepting ₹6.5 lakh bribe for allotting plot in Navi Mumbai

The complainant is a project-affected person and he was supposed to get an open plot in Navi Mumbai from Cidco under the 12.5% scheme

A deal was struck between the accused and the complainant at ₹6.5 lakh.(HT/PICTURE FOR REPRESENTATION)

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Published on Jun 17, 2018 12:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Navi Mumbai

Residents rejoice after HC stays debris dumping at Kharghar pond

Based on PIL filed by the residents on Wednesday, the court had scheduled an emergency hearing for 3pm Thursday

Once spread across five hectares , the pond has been reduced to one-tenth of its original size.(Bachchan Kumar/HT)

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Published on Jun 07, 2018 11:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPadmja Sinha, Navi Mumbai

Cidco invites bids for 1.3 ha plot at Nerul for residential-cum-commercial development

The plot is in the prime area in sector 19A, measures approximately 13,619.47sqm.

Nerul is being touted to be the next popular developed node of Navi Mumbai(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 04, 2018 11:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByG Mohiuddin Jeddy, Mumbai

Belapur fort survived time. Now, it has to survive red tape

It sees very few visitors nowadays — mostly history buffs or those who want to get a glimpse of the ruins.

Belapur killa at CBD in Navi Mumbai(HT Photo)

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Updated on May 13, 2018 12:39 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPadmja Sinha

Arrival of flamingos at Navi Mumbai wetlands offers new hope against golf course project

Birds such as terns, waders, herons, and seagulls, have all been spotted at the site.

Flamingos typically migrate to Mumbai’s wetlands in the winter months(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 30, 2018 11:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Special committee submits list of five candidates, shortlisted to be University of Mumbai’s new VC

A three-member search committee was then appointed to find a replacement former VC, Sanjay Deshmukh, was sacked.

The governor’s office will intimate the five candidates over the next two days, and invite them for a final interaction with the governor.(Ht file photo)

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Updated on Apr 14, 2018 11:56 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShreya Bhandary, Mumbai

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The high court has given a stay order on any activity in and around the pond till it decides the case.

After the demolition of the temples, Thakur filed yet another plea in the court, alleging that no action has been taken against MIDC officials, though the encroachment on their land was a fact known to its officials, up to the chief executive officer.

Residents claimed as the work was done in haste, it will not last long and the potholes will reappear once it starts raining.

Currently, there are restrictions on availing a house through a government scheme in the same district. Therefore, an individual, who for instance already has a house in Pune or Thane, can apply for another house in Mumbai under a government scheme.

Cidco has divided the Navi Mumbai Metro project into four phases. The first phase of 11.10km (which is now under implementation) starts from Belapur railway station and ends to Pendhar near Taloja.

Aditya Ambre, 30, and his wife Sarika, 28, had to cross the bridge over Gadi river as it is the only access to the main road from their home in Umroli village.

Around 20,000 affected residents alleged that there has been no coordination from the election officials about voting guideline for the project-affected people

Activists alleged that the road expansion work of NH-348 destroyed the 4.5 acres of mangrove patch.

Cidco has agreed to give the special incentive of ₹500 per sq ft to the villagers who give their consent and demolish their houses by November 7

On September 28, Navi Mumbai residents and environmentalists filed a complaint with the state, alleging City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) was shutting the high tide water ingress by blocking 76 gates at Panje

Activists said Cidco was violating the order and dumping truckloads of debris around the mangroves to reclaim the area

The court was responding to multiple pleas filed by environmentalists.

Residents who had petitioned the HC to seek protection for the wetland, have refuted the claim and have said MRSAC’s own website identifies the water body as a lake or pond

Less than 40% of the families whose homes and farms will make way for the project have moved to resettlement sites, although the deadline was July 2018.

A committee of senior officials led by the state’s chief secretary had been tasked with finalising the modalities of the transfer, including working out a penalty as the promoters failed to meet the deadlines and milestones of the SEZ project.

One-member commitee to look at allotments made to Koyna project-affected over the past 15 years

The state has also directed the corporation to build 1 lakh affordable houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in the next four years for the poor.

Residents and activists have sounded the alarm and are fighting to save the hills

On June 7, the high court had asked Cidco to not dump debris near the pond

Your wait to take a ride in the metro train got longer.

BNHS officials said they will be monitoring the proposed NIMA site for the next 10 years

Plots in Navi Mumbai are selling at ₹1.33 lakh per square metre as opposed to ₹2.92 lakh per square metre three years ago

The MSRDC plans to utilise the space of the octroi nakas to expand the toll plazas currently in use

The complainant is a project-affected person and he was supposed to get an open plot in Navi Mumbai from Cidco under the 12.5% scheme

Based on PIL filed by the residents on Wednesday, the court had scheduled an emergency hearing for 3pm Thursday

The plot is in the prime area in sector 19A, measures approximately 13,619.47sqm.

It sees very few visitors nowadays — mostly history buffs or those who want to get a glimpse of the ruins.

Birds such as terns, waders, herons, and seagulls, have all been spotted at the site.

A three-member search committee was then appointed to find a replacement former VC, Sanjay Deshmukh, was sacked.

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