Sunday 20 July 2014

Mithi River is still Salty even after spending Rs 1057 crores

     The thought of  26 July 2005 deluge makes every Mumbaikar to have sleepless night due to the memories if flooding of Mithi River, after 26 July 2005 RS 1057 Crores have been spend till date on Mithi River Cleaning & Development by MMRDA & MCGM.The New Dead Line of Mithi River Project to be completed is April 2017. Earlier deadline is December 2010 which extended 3 times.The Central Government has not sanction a Single Paise till date . This is  revealed in  a RTI query filed by Athak Seva Sangh Chairman & RTI Activists Anil Galgali from MMRDA &  MCGM. Now Galgali moves to Prime Minister Narendra Modi & urges him to clear the Rs 1657.11 crores fund immediately to MMRDA.

       From last 9 years Mithi River development work is going in a very slow motion this made Anil Galgali to seek detailed information of  the project to both the implementing agencies MMRDA & MCGM. from Vihar Talav to  CST Bridge Kurla, 11.8 km length of Mithi River part come under Jurisdiction of MCGM. Mahim Causeway to CST bridge Kurla 6 km with 2 km Vakola Nala jurisdiction falls under MMRDA. Mcgm Executive Engineer P C Jaswani reply that 1960 meter length service road work  completed and 10467 meter work remains.Other widening & deepening  Work has been completed. MCGM has spend Rs 28.97 crores for the first phase and Rs 573.89 crores spend on Second phase. In MCGM jurisdiction total work cost including bridges work is approximately  Rs 1239.60 crores. As per schedule This work was to be be completed by December 2012 then it has extended til December 2015 but now it will be completed by April 2017.

       MMRDA Executive Engineer who is in charge of Mithi River project, Mahadev Narkar claims that They spend Rs 34.40 crores for first phase & Rs 419
52 crores on Second phase out of total Rs 467.51 crores. completed. 3960 meter length service road work  completed and 2140 meter work remains in MMRDA part. This project should have been completed by December 2010 , After that it has been extended December 2012 and December 2013. Now new deadline of MMRDA Jurisdiction is December 2014. MMRDA Rs 1657.11 crores financial Aid demand proposal is  submitted to Central Government but till date not a single Paise fund is sanctioned or approved .

#10.54 lakh Qubic Meter desliting

MMRDA & Bmc both claim that till they desliting 10.54 lakh qubic meter work. In this  work 5.68 lakh qubic meter was Bmc and remain 4.86 lakh qubic meter was claim by MMRDA. After this huge cleaning till Mithi River not become pollution free and sweet, said Anil Galgali.

# Contractors Get lots

How much Mithi River clean and when its fully developed? Its a big question and Mumbaikar should wait for this but a Contractors who are a part of Mithi River Development work get lots from MMRDA and MCGM. Highest amount was Rs 236.42 cr paid to RPF Infra Project.After that other company paid as they claim to agency are as follows. Reliance Michigun Rs161.62 cr , Unity Rs 105 cr ,BPL- BBC Rs 104.26 cr ,DBM Jiyotechnic Rs 78.09 cr, RE Infra Rs 55.88 cr ,Raj Company Rs 54.84 cr, Shyam Naryan Brothers Rs 23.19 cr.

Anil Galgali in his letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded that Rs 1657.11 crores should be approved for a Mithi River development work. The Mithi River is till Thirsty for the fund. The  work which is carried out is very shoddy on Mithi River, said Galgali

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