The city environmentalists are up in arms after some of them noticed the ongoing construction of an illegal road on the creek side of the Palm Beach Road in Navi Mumbai, between NRI complex and TS Chanakya. Vinod Punshi, a member of the Navi Mumbai Environment Preservation Society, said that he saw a dumper dumping debris on Friday. "I spoke to the authorities, including the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) as well as cops. On Saturday, Punshi went to the site with NMMC officials again and showed them the violations, questioning how the permissions could be granted. "NMMC officials said the permission was granted on the grounds that dumping will not be carried out on the mangroves.

Source: dna September 05, 2016 01:28 UTC