From hospital repairs to cleaner streets: Mid-Day impact stories bring real change

06 November,2025 07:31 AM IST |  Mumbai  |  Team mid-day

October sees this newspaper reports fixing issues at a civic-run hospital, gets a pesky langur captured, gets lights fixed on a dark road, ensures the introduction of larger buses for die-hard BEST commuters and gets garbage cleared from several areas in the city

One of the midi buses that residents of Marve, Aksa, and Madh found inadequate. FILE PIC


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October 18
BEST deploys full size buses in Marve, Aksa and Madh after commuter complaints, ensures bigger buses for die-hard BEST fans, gets lights fixed on a dark road and gets garbage cleared from several areas

October 6
A large group of diehard BEST bus fans rue the dwindling number of buses on their routes

October 8
A monkey makes Bhavan's College campus its home and becomes a nuisance

October 9
The very next day, a team from SGNP arrives and captures the primate

October 6
Within 48 hours of mid-day's expose, KEM Hospital replaces torn bedsheets and mattresses

October 4
mid-day takes a look around KEM's women's ward and finds it in a shocking mess

October 29
BMC promptly arrives on the scene and cleans up the garbage

October 27
Govandi residents raise a stink about garbage strewn outside schools in the area

October 18
A week later, authorities get lights installed in the area

October 11
Commuters who exit the Aarey-JVLR Metro station complain of the area being in darkness making it difficult to hail public transport

October 14
A day later, BMC clears the trash from the area

October 13
Residents of Vakola's Khanwala Compound Road are at their wits' end about the garbage being dumped in their area

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