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https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/green-patches-are-being-crushed-this-is-leading-to-poor-air-quality-surendra-jondhale-8426097/  Pratip Acharya  February 6, 2023

Green patches are being crushed… this is leading to poor air quality: Surendra Jondhale "Another aspect of this budget is that the BMC is going to dive into its reserves (Fixed Deposit) and they are saying that this money will be utilised for development works in city," says Jondhale.
This budget is entirely a politically shadowed administrative budget.  you will see that lesser funds are being allotted to the education and health department, just like the Union budget for this year.

Another aspect of this budget is that the BMC is going to dive into its reserves (Fixed Deposit) and they are saying that this money will be utilised for development works in city.  ( see Udhav Thackeray response to PM's suggestion in this regard )

This year we have seen the municipal commissioner speaking majorly about mitigating air pollution. They have also earmarked Rs 25 crore for this purpose.  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has also spoken about mitigating air pollution of Mumbai and she has connected the current situation with better waste management. The situation in Mumbai today is the result of prolonged incorrect waste management. Air pollution is just an additional factor, the unmanaged construction works, open debris dumping and garbage burning are the primary contributing factors for bad air quality. These factors need to be addressed first, then only the problem could be solved at a holistic level.

These problems wouldn’t have risen in the first place, if the city had enough green patches and trees. For example, the Aarey forest is like an oasis to the Mumbai metropolis. Whatever green patches are left in the city now are now being crushed for real estate or infrastructure projects. The lack of trees around is only resulting in poorer air quality nowadays.

This budget is proposed solely keeping the upcoming elections in mind.

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Citing development needs, the government took over Delhi’s once thriving commons. Now, much of this land is neglected, walled off or encroached on by the rich. https://scroll.in/article/1043344/how-delhi-ate-up-its-village-commons 

A board in the middle of the dried pond announces that it is situated on “gaon sabha” land. This is a category of land that, under the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, is jointly owned by a village, and comprises areas used by the community, including for the digging of wells, collecting forest produce or as burial grounds. The act vests the rights of usage of such common lands with the gaon sabha – the representative body that governs a village or a group of villages, whose executive arm is the gaon panchayat.

But blame for the pond’s mismanagement does not rest with the gaon sabha. In 1990, the Delhi government issued a notification that dissolved all the gaon panchayats constituted under the 1954 act, and transferred the ownership of the gaon sabha lands to the revenue department of the Delhi government.

With that, the divisional commissioner of Delhi, an officer of the revenue department, took over the duties and powers of the gaon panchayats

by Vaishnavi Rathore

08/02/2023