Metro shed: PIL in HC over BMC notice

Shinde said at the Thane Municipal Corporation school no. 23 at Kisan Nagar where he studied.

He remembered his school teacher Raghunath Parab and said the school which is now a building operated from a chawl when he studied there. Shinde said the students would clean the school by themselves.

The CM checked the drinking water facility at the school and also visited its computer laboratory and classrooms.

In a related event, he announced that the Exam Warriors’ book by the prime minister will be made available to TMC and zilla parishad schools in the state for free.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) performed very well,” he said. “In politics, two plus two is not always four. A survey based on just a handful of people does not give the real picture...We are not afraid of elections. Future itself will give replies to the predictions of the survey,” said Shinde.

2nd time in 4 days: No new COVID-19 case in Mumbai

Mumbai (PTI): No new COVID-19 case was reported in Mumbai on Friday, the second such occurrence this week, while the infectionlinked death toll remained unchanged at 19,747, the city civic body said.

With this, the city’s overall COVID-19 case tally remained static at 11,55,242, said a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation bulletin.

This was the second time in the current week that the financial capital of the country has re- ported zero COVID-19 cases. On January 24, Mumbai had logged zero COVID-19 infections for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020.

With no fresh death linked to the infection registered in the last 24 hours, the toll remained unchanged at 19,747.

The number of recoveries reached 11,35,480 after four more patients recuperated from the respiratory illness, leaving the city with 15 active cases, according to the bulletin.

Mumbai’s recovery rate stood at 98.3%, while the case doubling rate improved to 3,63,932 days.

The city’s growth rate of COVID-19 cases between January 20 and 26 was 0.0002%, it added.

Mumbai (PTI): A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Bombay High Court on Friday against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s notice seeking suggestions and objections for removal of 177 trees at Aarey Colony for the construction of a car shed for Metro Line 3. The civic body had issued a notice on January 12, following an application filed by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) seeking permission to remove 84 trees for the car shed project.

In the PIL, activist Zoru Bathena claimed that the notice was in violation of the Supreme Court order of

November 2022, which only allowed for removal of 84 trees.

“The notice dated January 12, 2023, issued by the tree authority is for removal of 177 trees, having a different set of tree ID numbers in comparison to the MMRCL’s application, which was only for 84 trees,” stated the petition.

The notice was issued without application of mind and hence, deserves to be quashed and set aside, it said.

The Metro car shed project at Aarey Colony in suburban Goregaon has been embroiled in controversy since 2014, with environmentalists holding protests against indiscriminate felling of trees in the area which they claim is a forest area.

After coming to power, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government had in 2019 said the car shed would be constructed at suburban Kanjurmarg and not Aarey Colony.

In June 2022, the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led state government reversed the decision and said the car shed will be constructed in Aarey Colony only.