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.