MUMBAI: Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
Pre-monsoon work on coastal rd, other infra projects resumes amid lockdown
BMC has started pre-monsoon work of road-resurfacing, desilting, and bridge construction despite the lockdown, to avoid accidents, flooding, water-logging and diseases during the rains—it has a little over a month and a half to complete the job.
BMC restarted 112 works on roads, bridges and stormwater drains (including desilting) with 2,500 labourers from Monday onwards.
Falling prices, transport woes force farmers to dump their vegetables
He had 16,000 kilos of freshly harvested tomatoes when the lockdown began. After four months of nurturing the crop, Ahmednagar farmer Nilesh Talekar couldn’t get a single truck to take his stock to the Pune wholesale market. “The entire lot had to be thrown out. It was worth Rs 1 lakh,” says the broken farmer.
Even as Mumbai queues for tomatoes selling at Rs 40 a kg, here’s the irony: farmers who grew them are getting just Rs 5 per kg. Transport bottlenecks have meant farmers have not been able to get their stocks to the market on time.
Breach Candy & Bhatia hospitals shut for regular services after nurse and 3 patients infected
Breach Candy and Bhatia hospitals on Wednesday were asked to stop routine medical services after a nurse in the former and three patients in the latter tested positive for coronavirus. Khar’s Hinduja Hospital also had a Covid-19 scare and scrambled to quarantine their staffers after a patient, who was admitted with convulsions, tested positive.
Must wear 3-ply or handmade masks in public places: BMC
Residents cannot step out anymore without wearing a mask. Violation of the order could mean arrest and a case under section 188 of the IPC (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant), which has a minimum punishment of six months’ imprisonment.
The mask must be at least three-ply or a homemade one. The order, issued by municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi on Wednesday “in larger public interest”, applies to citizens as well as government officials. It mandates wearing of masks in public places like roads, hospitals, offices, and markets under Rule 10 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. It is mandatory even when moving in one’s personal or official vehicle. No person/officer can attend any meeting, gathering, workplace, site without wearing a mask.
Pre-monsoon work on coastal rd, other infra projects resumes amid lockdown
BMC has started pre-monsoon work of road-resurfacing, desilting, and bridge construction despite the lockdown, to avoid accidents, flooding, water-logging and diseases during the rains—it has a little over a month and a half to complete the job.
BMC restarted 112 works on roads, bridges and stormwater drains (including desilting) with 2,500 labourers from Monday onwards.
Falling prices, transport woes force farmers to dump their vegetables
He had 16,000 kilos of freshly harvested tomatoes when the lockdown began. After four months of nurturing the crop, Ahmednagar farmer Nilesh Talekar couldn’t get a single truck to take his stock to the Pune wholesale market. “The entire lot had to be thrown out. It was worth Rs 1 lakh,” says the broken farmer.
Even as Mumbai queues for tomatoes selling at Rs 40 a kg, here’s the irony: farmers who grew them are getting just Rs 5 per kg. Transport bottlenecks have meant farmers have not been able to get their stocks to the market on time.
Breach Candy & Bhatia hospitals shut for regular services after nurse and 3 patients infected
Breach Candy and Bhatia hospitals on Wednesday were asked to stop routine medical services after a nurse in the former and three patients in the latter tested positive for coronavirus. Khar’s Hinduja Hospital also had a Covid-19 scare and scrambled to quarantine their staffers after a patient, who was admitted with convulsions, tested positive.
Must wear 3-ply or handmade masks in public places: BMC
Residents cannot step out anymore without wearing a mask. Violation of the order could mean arrest and a case under section 188 of the IPC (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant), which has a minimum punishment of six months’ imprisonment.
The mask must be at least three-ply or a homemade one. The order, issued by municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi on Wednesday “in larger public interest”, applies to citizens as well as government officials. It mandates wearing of masks in public places like roads, hospitals, offices, and markets under Rule 10 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. It is mandatory even when moving in one’s personal or official vehicle. No person/officer can attend any meeting, gathering, workplace, site without wearing a mask.
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