A manual called Mumbai Emergency Operations Plan (MuEOP) has been published and it will be treated as Gospel by the civic body during emergencies. MUMBAI: In the wake of the Mazgaon building collapse, ...

Mumbai: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will conduct a survey of manual scavengers across its entire area from October 6 to October 16, following the directives of the Ministry of Social ...

Mumbai: The city may be building coastal roads, metros, shiny skyscrapers and sprawling malls. However, all this will not mean much if the city also has labourers, who are cleaning choked-to-the-brim ...

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) received as many as 355 declarations of manual scavenging from the M East and M West wards—covering areas like Govandi and Chembur—on Tuesday, in ...

Mumbai: Following directives from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the BMC will conduct a new survey of manual scavengers from October 6 to 16. In the 2013 survey, no instances of ...

Following drowning cases of labourers, while cleaning sewer lines, the BMC has decided to put an end to manual cleaning of sewers and storm water drain lines. The contractors will be warned to ...

Mumbai: The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the commissioner, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, district collector, commissioner of police, and the assistant municipal ...

Man got a leg up on machine during the rescue and relief operations of Tuesday's Gokhale bridge collapse. While the fire brigade and the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) began operating manually, ...