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COVID-19 in Mumbai: Housing societies, citizenâs group approach BMC for vaccination drives
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With more and more people becoming eager to get their COVID-19 vaccine shots, housing societies and citizen s groups have approached BMC to arrange vaccination camps within their society premises or in the neighbourhood. The idea is to get maximum people vaccinated and avoid overcrowding.
After the BMC announced that it will open vaccination centres in all the 227 divisions of municipal wards, it also added that housing societies can tie-up with private hospitals and dispensaries so that camps could be arranged on their premises.
Dhaval Shah, founder and spokesperson of Lokhandwala Oshiwara Citizen s Association (LOCA), an apex body of housing societies under which nearly 500 buildings are affiliated said that they have already pitched the idea of conducting a vaccination drive in Versova. We expressed our idea of vaccinating all the eligible citizens to the BMC by arran
Wankhede Stadium
MUMBAI: Many residents around Wankhede Stadium want the IPL matches scheduled to be played there shifted as they fear crowds could worsen the Covid situation in the area.
When buses with some of the cricketers arrived at a star hotel at Nariman Point, there was a crowd to watch them. Though spectators are not allowed for the IPL matches, the residents fear similar crowds could gather at the stadium, near where many buildings are sealed due to Covid cases, said a letter written to CM Uddhav Thackeray on April 2 by Asit Shroff, a resident of D Road, just across the Wankhede Stadium.
SoBo residents block attempt to open Wankhede for tourists
ByVijay TagoreVijay Tagore / Updated: Dec 10, 2020, 06:00 IST
Big crowds will lead to traffic chaos and could compromise citizens’ safety, residents argue.
Less than three months after
state Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray tweeted about his plan to open the
Wankhede Stadium for tourists, residents of Churchgate and Marine Drive have written to Thackeray,
BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal and others, flagging up traffic and safety concerns.
While the
Mumbai Cricket Association’s apex council meeting is scheduled for December 15 when matter will be discussed, a threepage letter issued by the
Marine Drive Residents’ Association said that the members were “dreading a security breach” if all and sundry were allowed inside the stadium. “We the residents are stakeholders of any change in our immediate environment. As such we wish our fears be allayed first before the Wankhede Stadium is thrown open to