The Indian Express 31.03.2013
BMC gets 3,800 responses on existing land use maps
THE BMC has received over 3,800 suggestions and objections from
citizens to the Existing Land Use (ELU) maps to plan for the city’s
development plan (DP) for 2014-34.
The responses have poured in over past three months, after BMC
extended deadline for making suggestions and objections several times.
Though the civic administration did not confirm whether the
deadline will be further extended, about 15 per cent of the suggestions
are likely to be implemented in the new development plan.
While 1,200 of responses have been scrutinsed by the
administration, officials said rectifications in the existing DP maps
could be made based on only 180 of these.
ELU will form the base for the preparation of DP.
Bus runs over biker, driver arrested
Police on Saturday arrested the driver of a private bus that
allegedly crushed a biker on Western Express Highway on Friday morning.
The driver had fled the spot after the accident.
According to Borivali police, the victim, Arish Bhatti (22), was
on his way to his Jogeshwari residence when the accident occurred around
4.30 am. “Bhatti was on the Western Express Highway when the bus, which
was going from Gorai to Jogeshwari, tried to overtake him and hit him
at Sumer Nagar junction,” said an officer.
