From dirty water to dangerous jetties: How Mid-Day helped fix Mumbai’s problems

In July, this newspaper resolves Bandra residents’ filthy water problem, gets a dangerous jetty fixed, gets a BEST route restored, brings vital help for a baby at death’s door, gets a roof over a portion of Bandra station, gets a filthy street cleaned up in quick time, among a host of other solutions

The previous narrow and damaged road near Gorai jetty posed risks for motorists and pedestrians (right) The stretch leading to the jetty after repair work began following complaints from locals. PicS/By Special Arrangement

July 8
Madhulika Ram Kavatur's copy on ‘Authorities act after one call from mid-day'. A traffic island dangerously protruding out of a Metro pillar was immediately removed after a call from mid-day alerted the authorities

July 1
‘Thanks to mid-day we aren't waking up in puddles anymore'

June 18
Ritika Ghodalekar's copy - ‘Metro work floods Chembur complex with filthy water'

July 5
MTHL gets a fix-up

July 2
Ranjeet Jadhav's copy - ‘Missing panel, illegal halting plague MTHL'

July 10
BMC races to patch Fitzgerald's coat after mid-day report

July 3
Eeshanpriya MS story - ‘Fitzgerald is losing his coat'

July 23
Gaps near R 7.8-crore Wadala FOB plugged after mid-day report

July 9
Rajendra B Aklekar's copy on ‘Rs 7.8 cr foot over bridge, yet people use hole in wall!

July 11
CR mends the gap

July 1
No longer a bridge to nowhere

July 8
Kopar gets a sip and AVM

June 27
Shrikant Khupekar's story - ‘Kopar in a coma'

July 8
22 arrested after mid-day exposes resurgence of the dating app scam

June 30
Samiullah Khan's copy - ‘Tinder date at Borivli club ends in R14k fraud'

July 12
Cops act after mid-day report

July 11
Samiullah's Khan's copy - ‘She left on an airplane, returned on a stretcher'

July 15
City opens its heart, purse strings… again

July 14
Ritika Ghodalekar's copy - ‘Just 37 km stand between newborn's life and death'

July 9
Civic body cleans up Chandivli's streets in wake of mid-day report

July 8
Ritika Ghodalekar's copy: ‘Can't BMC see that we are unable to go outside without stepping in filth'

July 22
mid-day brings clean water to Bandra East societies

July 18
Madhulika Ram Kavatur's copy ‘Aila Sachin's former locality has a bad H2O problem'

July 16
Police register FIR over bloodstains at IIT Bombay campus

July 15
ADITI ALURKAR & AISHWARIYA IYER report ‘IIT's blood out there'

July 18
mid-day gets Bandra West foot overbridge a roof

June 6
Rajendra B Aklekar's copy ‘Railways fail rain ready test in Mumbai'

July 19
Two years of silence broken after mid-Day flags shut Aarey Colony loos

July 17
Ranjeet Jadhav's story ‘Two years on, two 70-loo blocks in Aarey still locked

July 15
BEST's No 1 is back

July 10
Rajendra B Aklekar's ‘Has BEST dropped its bus No. 1?'

July 28
AC buses return to Kalyan, Dombivli roads after month

July 5
Shrikant Khuperkar's story ‘Dombivli commuters hit hard as KDMT AC services halted'

July 28
Gorai Jetty Road finally gets a fix

June 20
Ananya Raje's copy ‘Ro-ro route of peril'