April 2018 > A MonthlyNewsletter > For private circulation only Action for good Governance & Networking in India Forward This To All - And All Forward - Together Mumbai MP promises his F/North Ward Special MPLAD funds for Garbage Editorial Processing Wardwise special r. Rahul Shewale, MP issue of MMJ Mbelieves that it is not his is the first special acceptable for Mumbai's civic Tissue covering F/North administration to pass on to 1,000 tons of wet waste a day ward. citizens the responsibility of and give it to the Municipal It was decided that every dealing with wet waste. The Corporation of Greater alternate issue will cover a municipal administration has Mumbai (MCGM). particular ward and the ward threatened to cut off the He is willing also to use his co o rd in ato r will s en d power and water supply to own MPLAD funds or the CSR Supreme Court that two new materials on the ward cooperative societies and bulk funds of corporates to provide land filling sites would be including information that generators which produce 100 smaller composting machines identified. Nothing has would help the citizens of the kg wet waste per day if they do to cooperative housing happened, nor have machines ward with contacts etc. not segregate their waste and societies processing wet waste come up to turn the 3000 ton In this issue you will find compost the wet waste. The on their own premises in his per day garbage to power at articles on F/North ward, MP was speaking to Mr. Nikhil constituency. Deonar, despite tenders being corporators and even the Desai – AGNI Coordinator F floated thrice. member of parliament. Mr. Shewale is critical of the North ward. The MP reminds MCGM that I am sure this will be a real MCGM for passing on the Our city is divided into seven their own land is available near informative issue for F/North responsibility of handling wet zones, each zone generating seven sewage treatment plants ward citizens. waste to housing societies who about 1,000 tons of waste a generate it. It is the MCGM's (STP) in Mumbai where the This will also energise garbage processing machines day. Mr. Shewale who responsibility as they collect coordinators and volunteers, could be installed. The wet represents Mumbai South the taxes, he said. apart from giving information waste of an entire zone can be o f t h e w a r d f o r i t s Central (Dadar, Matunga, Sion, The state government and the processed there. MMJ betterment. Mahim and Chembur), has MCGM have known for three Finally to get all issues of offered to buy from his MP years that the city's three All-woman station at MMJ, please send your email Local Area Development Fund dumping grounds can take no Matunga: a first for id to [email protected] MMJ (MPLAD) a machine to process more – even assured the Indian Railways l o t i s Guest Editorial Know elected representatives' plans, demand your rights special at Nikhil Desai - F/North Ward Coordinator A M a t u n g a North ward was reserved from various authorities like sanctioned to Central Railway Fby the city's early planners the BMC, police and traffic prevent that. The S t a t i o n : a for its middle classes and police to implement the laws courts have ruled spanking new educational institutions. of the land. And when they fail that good roads ladies toilet and a woman station Today's citizens demand the to implement, the courts help a n d manager with her staff of 42 same, something echoed by citizens by passing strict encroachment- women including railway police. “We deserve a place in the Limca this issue of Mumbai Meri Jaan. orders. f r e e f o o t p a t h s a r e a Book of Records,” says Ms. Mamta We highlight some achieve- fundamental right. When citizens take the first Kulkarni, the Station Manager, ments of our local authorities step to vote (less than 50% do For all these reasons AGNI believes that citizens must act. speaking to Mr. Nikhil Desai, AGNI and some to come. so) but take no further F North Coordinator. Election and voting are just interest, the system derails. So in this special issue on F/N ward I have met the elected “I will be here for, say, three the first steps in having a That is why we see, rampant representatives of our area and years,” she says “and in this time democracy. There are more, cooking on footpaths against t h e h e a d s o f v a r i o u s I will make it a better place than like knowing the plans of our Supreme Court orders. That is organisations. I hope you will when I joined it.” An escalator to elected MP, MLA and corpo- why we see hawkers within enjoy reading about their replace the tiring walk up the rators and how they plan to 150 metres of railway stations achievements and plans which stairs leading to the foot improve our area. For these despite a High Court order. they have placed before those overbridge has been sanctioned. changes we need regular That is why the same areas are with the power to enact them – It will benefit the 60,000 interaction with our elected flooded in the monsoons year and, hopefully, you will join the passengers served daily by the representatives wherein we after year, despite huge drive for a better life in F North station. Free WiFi is also to be provided. can also demand our rights B r i m s t o w a d b u d g e t s ward. MMJ MMJ 2 Mumbai Meri Jaan April 2018 Swachha Mumbai Abhiyaan Corporator Amey Ghole gets 97 buildings Municipal pressure together to build a compost pit r. A m e y G h o l e , Greater reduces city garbage by Mcorporator of Ward 178, Mumbai F North ward, got 97 buildings as well as 2,300 tons per day in Sahakar Nagar Wadala for laying ction by the Municipal together for composting wet g r a s s Corporation of Greater waste. Financing has come lawns in A Mumbai (MCGM) has cut the from his own Corporator’s a l l t h e amount of garbage going to the Fund. gardens city's dumping grounds by “I am proud to say that so i n h i s 2,300 tons per day according to many families agreed to install, c o n - an MCGM spokesperson, Mr. and then maintain, such a large stituency. Ram Dotonde. pit” he said. The space was “I count as an achievement The MCGM made it Composting Machine contributed by 45 buildings and the building of three public mandatory for city's bulk inauguration at 52 buildings will maintain it. toilets”, he said, “and generators of garbage to follow Swaminarayan Temple Mr. Ghole adds that a foul- renovating ten others.” He Solid Waste Management smelling and filthy area below installed a sanitary pad identified 40 generators of bulk (SWM) Rules: segregate the Nana Jagannath Sheth flyover vending machine in a public waste and induced them to garbage and compost the wet at Dadar TT will be transformed toilet. compost wet garbage on their waste on their own premises as into a garden with a walk-way. Mr. Ghole emphasized that own premises: Educational they must. He has obtained a budget hawkers have no place in institutes like Don Bosco Deonar, Mulund and allocation to do so from the spaces meant for citizens. MMJ School, Ruia College, VJTI, Kanjurmarg, the city's three Wellingkar Institute, Matunga Twenty five year old dumping grounds are at Gymkhana, Indian Gymkhana saturation point. Two new ones and Dadar Parsee Gymkhana, encroachments to go exist only on paper. Waste Shanmukanda Hall, Tamil generators were told they Sangam Hall and the Sion or the last twenty-five completion, out-station could lose their power and Hospital. Also, big housing years, 102 hutments have S h i v n e r i F water supply. Three Acts come societies like Dosti Acres, been occupying footpaths on Buses will no into play: The Mumbai Highway Apartments, Avanti Tilak Road extension. Of these, longer need Municipal Corporation Act, The and Kalpatru Residency have residents of 78 eligible to be parked Mumbai Regional Town already begun composting in structures (pre-2000) will, after under Dadar P l a n n i n g A c t a n d T h e their premises. r e m o v a l , g e t f r e e TT flyover. Environment Protection Act. This project The Shree Swaminarayan accommodation in M East The city is in a waste Mandir has installed on their awaits National Textile ward. Another lot of 76 management crisis. Waste own premises an Excel Com- Corporation clearance of hutments also dating back 25 segregation in homes is pany composting machine of years, which had encroached setback land for the Municipal important enough. But the role 300 kg per day capacity which on footpaths of G.D. Ambekar Corporation of Greater of bulk generators is as vital. was inaugurated by Asst. Marg, have already been Mumbai (MCGM). The F North ward office has Municipal Commissioner, F removed. Residents of 58 Traffic jams on Antop Hill and North ward, Keshav Ubale,.MMJ the surrounding areas of h u t m e n t s h a v e b e e n millimetres in diameter will be Wadala will soon be history.