Maharashtra

Activists demand the information be made public to bring transparency to the process and increase citizen participation in tree conservation. In 2018, activist Gopal Jhaveri in Mumbai, discovered that four coconut trees in his area, Borivali, had been poisoned by miscreants to achieve a clear view for an advertisement hoarding. Jhaveri lodged a police complaint ...

After attempting the project as a pilot in South Mumbai’s Worli neighbourhood in September of last year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun the process of developing a three-dimensional digital model of Mumbai city. In addition to its open spaces, municipal facilities, and slums, Mumbai’s buildings, roads, bridges, underpasses, water bodies, means of transportation, ...

The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) is developing an advanced computerised system for all its land banks using geographical information system (GIS) mapping and robotic process automation (RPA), its public relations office (PRO) said in a media statement issued on Friday.

This year, a research institute hopes social media can play a more practical role – asking residents to tweet details about floods in their neighbourhoods and using the data to issue geographically specific flood alerts in real-time. Around the world in countries including Australia and Indonesia, climate researchers are increasingly using data gathered via social ...