Salonee Mistry

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Salonee Mistry

Salonee Mistry

@Salonee_TOIPune

Principal Digital Features Writer

Pune, India Katılım Eylül 2010
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Pune River Revival
Pune River Revival@PuneRivers·
While this first-ever academic valuation of Vetal Tekdi demolishes the PMC's economic argument for destroying nature's gift to Pune, even the most well-meaning environmental valuation is thinking like a builder! Here's why it is still a gross undervaluation of a priceless asset : 1. A 65-million-year-old ecosystem cannot be rebuilt. Destruction is irreversible. Irreversibility has infinite cost. 2. The forest cools entire neighbourhoods. Every home, hospital and school that avoids an air conditioner owes something to Vetal Tekdi. 3. It filters the air for millions of lungs every single day. No number was put on a single breath. 4. It holds Pune's floods back. The stormwater it absorbs silently saves the city infrastructure costs every monsoon. 5. The genetic and medicinal wealth of its plant species — part of a global biodiversity hotspot — was left entirely unvalued. 6. The mental health of a city cannot be itemised. But it can be destroyed, permanently, by a road. 7. Future generations were not consulted. Their share of this inheritance is not in the table. 8. Ancient aquifers recharge on geological timescales. Once broken, they do not come back in any human lifetime. 9. The existence of wild, living, breathing nature inside a city of 7 million is itself a gift beyond accounting. 10. Some assets belong on no balance sheet — because they are the condition under which all other value is possible. #SaveVetalTekdi #ScrapBBRoad
sushma date@sushmadate

The first economic valuation of Vetal Tekdi - by @priti_mastakar of Gokhale Institute Quarry wetland - ₹ 98.28 cr Carbon sequestration - ₹16 L Oxygen production - ₹ 6.69 cr Biodiversity - ₹1.54 cr Aquifers - ₹ 14,62,000 cr (!!) Heritage- ₹ 7.44 cr Valuation for mental health and psychological well being- priceless! 💚 THERE ARE SOME THINGS MONEY JUST CAN'T BUY. #SaveVetalTekdi #ScrapBBRoad

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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
@Therisingstarsp Hello sir, could you please give me your contact number or reach out to me on 9168220090. Salonee here from Times Of India. Thank you
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Shammi@Therisingstarsp·
For weeks, a burning garbage dump in the middle of Kharadi has been filling our homes with thick black toxic smoke. Children coughing. Families trapped indoors. This is a health emergency. Need immediate action please @PMCPune @CMOMaharashtra @PuneCityPolice @MirrorPune
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Hema Chari Madabhushi
Hema Chari Madabhushi@mhemachari·
This points to a reactive enforcement culture where action follows public pressure instead of routine monitoring and prevention. #PMC #MPCB & #Builder must explain why legally mandated dust-control measures are visible only after complaints. Clean air should not depend on who shouts the loudest. Enforcement must begin before citizens are forced to complain @PMCPune @mpcb_official
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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
@anupmeher Hello sir, Salonee here from Times Of India. I was hoping to talk to you about this issue. Please reach out to me on 9168220090, or let me know how to reach you. Thank you
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Anup Meher
Anup Meher@anupmeher·
This half road at Kakdenagar Road, Opp. Swami Vivekanand Garden, Kondhwa budruk was dug for making a road more than a month ago. There is absolutely no work going on since more than a month and causing traffic jams on the accessible road. Make this road ASAP. @PMCPune @MDNagpure
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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
@rajuparulekar @PenguinIndia Grow a spine @PenguinIndia . Not only have you done disservice to the nation by holding onto the book, but now will pressurise citizens into not sharing whatever format they have the truth available in? It might not be easy, but publishing the book is important and your duty
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Raju Parulekar@rajuparulekar·
Dear @PenguinIndia , You are not selling Tomatoes, Potatoes or Groceries. Being a publisher you are selling and propagating the TRUTH, bringing home the Ideas, Dreams, Inspirations to your readers. The Nation knows you maybe under tremendous pressure and you are not the only one. But by giving in so sheepishly, to enable the enforcement agencies to act against Rahul Gandhi, LOP, India, to intimidate the public from sharing the pdf files on WhatsApp, for compromising and not standing for the Truth, for not TELLING THE REASONS FOR NON-PUBLICATION OF the book since more than two years, you have LOST THE MORAL RIGHT to publish any Memoir, except ofcourse HAGIOGRAPHIES of Modi and Company. Hope you make mends sooner for better lest you risk being called ‘Godi Publisher.’
Penguin India@PenguinIndia

Statement from the publisher.

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Hema Chari Madabhushi
Hema Chari Madabhushi@mhemachari·
Breaking news: #MulaMutha river has officially been upgraded into a photoshoot location. Hard hats on, ribbon ready, sapling in hand. Smile for the camera. The river can wait. Concrete floodplains? Check.
Restricted visiting hours for a river? Innovative.
Ecology, hydrology, sewage, flood behaviour? Sorry, not visible in the frame. This “riverfront” seems designed less for monsoons and more for inauguration albums. The river is now a background prop while officials perform tree plantation rituals that last longer than the trees themselves. A living river needs space, seasonal flooding, soft edges and humility.
What it got instead is steps, tracks, theme parks and carefully choreographed inspections. You can’t restore a river with press photos.
You can’t climate-proof a city with angles and lighting. Pune doesn’t need a riverfront that looks good on X.
It needs rivers that survive July. #PuneRFD #UrbanRivers #ConcreteSolutions #PhotoOpGovernance
PMC Care@PMCPune

पुणे महानगरपालिकेमार्फत मुळा-मुठा नदीकाठ सुधारणा प्रकल्प प्रगतीपथावर आहे. पुणे शहरातून ४४ कि.मी. लांबीने वाहणाऱ्या नदीपैकी पहिल्या टप्प्यात संगमवाडी ते बंडगार्डन दरम्यान ३.७ कि.मी. नदीकाठ विकासाचे काम हाती घेण्यात आले असून, त्यापैकी सुमारे ९०% काम पूर्ण झाले आहे. संगमवाडी येथील १.५० कि.मी. लांबीचा नदीकाठ सर्वार्थाने पूर्ण झाला असून, आज दि. २६.०१.२०२६ रोजी मा. महापालिका आयुक्त नवल किशोर राम यांच्या समवेत मा. पृथ्वीराज बि.पी. अतिरिक्त आयुक्त (इस्टेट), मा. पवणीत कौर अतिरिक्त आयुक्त (जनरल), मा. ओमप्रकाश दिवटे अतिरिक्त आयुक्त (विशेष) व मा. प्रशांत वाघमारे शहर अभियंता यांनी कामाची पाहणी करून वृक्षारोपण केले. या प्रकल्पाअंतर्गत नदीकाठालगत थीम पार्क, चालणे व सायकलिंग ट्रॅक तसेच विविध नागरी सुविधा विकसित करण्यात येत आहेत. पूर्ण झालेल्या १.५० कि.मी. ट्रॅकचे लोकार्पण पुणे महानगरपालिका वर्धापन दिनानिमित्त १५.०२.२०२६ रोजी करण्यात येणार असून, नागरिकांसाठी सकाळी ६ ते ९ व संध्याकाळी ५ ते ८ या वेळेत वापरासाठी उपलब्ध राहणार आहे. मार्च २०२६ अखेर संगमवाडी ते कल्याणीनगर दरम्यान सुमारे ५ कि.मी. काम पूर्ण करण्याचे नियोजन असून, नजीकच्या कालावधीत लोकप्रतिनिधी व मा. मंत्री यांच्या हस्ते रीतसर लोकार्पण करण्यात येणार आहे. 🌿🚶‍♂️🚴‍♀️ #RiverFront #MulaMutha #Pune #Inaguration #PMC

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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
Legends!!!
sushma date@sushmadate

The unsung heroes of #BajajPuneGrandTour ❤️ An army of stray dog feeders and rescuers from all over Pune and PCMC worked with PMC, ably assisted by 2 NGOS, Blue Cross Society and @CCC_Pune, to prevent untoward incidents due to stray dogs crossing the route. The volunteers accompanied the dog catching vans to make sure strict records were kept, dogs were caught as humanely as possible, and sent only to trusted shelters like Blue Cross Hospital It was gratifying to see people offering to confine dogs in their premises during the event - tapri owners, security staff of colleges, shopkeepers, the irrigation dept on Karve rd, and big hearted people who allowed us to keep dogs in their basements, terraces and garden. Thanks to these kind souls, only a small number of dogs were sent to the shelter, and only 2 from Deccan. I myself had 5 dogs jailed in my backyard till the cyclists crossed the Deccan roads.😀 Though I still feel that removing stray dogs during public events and VIP visits is an unnecessary trauma to animals who are already living precarious lives on the streets, our volunteer-PMC-NGO collaboration model shows that a humane, well coordinated effort is possible that keeps animals and humans safe at public events

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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
Protests are important. They give citizens a platform while amplifying their voice to ensure that they are heard. But, when one has to protest for even the most basic facilities, it brings into question the efficiency of the administration in place
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Keshav Nagar Voices
Keshav Nagar Voices@KeshavNagarNow·
Struggles in Keshav Nagar I will pin this summary from Grok to raise awareness among people planning to rent or buy in Keshav Nagar. x.com/i/grok/share/Y…
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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
@apakotkar Hello sir, Salonee here from Times Of India. Can you please give me more information about this. 9168220090 Thank you
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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
@Tejendrpratap Hello sir, Salonee here from Times of India. Could you please give me more information about this issue. 9168220090. Thank you
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sushma date@sushmadate·
The Hon'ble Supreme Court sets a precedent. Orders PMC to conduct a fresh Environment Impact Assessment and get an EC for the #BalbharatiRd on #Vetaltekdi. It is gratifying that the highest court has recognised the importance of Pune's pristine Vetal Tekdi 💚
Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment@lifeindia2016

A precedent setting decision by the Supreme Court at a time when most road projects have used the loophole in the EIA notification to escape from the requirement of carrying out EIA studies @sushmadate barandbench.com/news/litigatio…

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sushma date@sushmadate·
#Vetaltekdi is under constant threat. It's viewed as valuable real estate to be 'developed' by the powers that be, not as a pristine, green public space, rich in biodiversity, a vital groundwater recharge zone and a community reserve for Punekars Please tune in at 8 pm today to listen to @prajpanshikar talk about this issue. Join the Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/84462432665?… Meeting ID: 844 6243 2665 Passcode: 783444
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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
Sewage management is a basic necessity and something that should be done before people start moving into new neighbourhoods. It has to be infra first, then population growth. @OfficialPMRDA @PMCPune and @mpcb_official are passing the buck, but no one is taking responsibility
Wagholi Welfare Foundation@WWFWagholi

🚨 Health Alert for Pune's Wagholi! 🚨 Today's @TOIPune news report reveals that rampant unplanned construction and inadequate sewage infrastructure have led to a public health crisis in the Baif Road area. Residents are battling stagnant, foul-smelling sewage water flooding their societies and roads, becoming a breeding ground for diseases. Local residents and we Wagholi Welfare Foundation @WWFWagholi have repeatedly raised concerns with authorities like the PMC and PMRDA, but say their complaints have fallen on deaf ears. Urgent action is needed to prevent a major health epidemic. We need proper sewage and drainage systems, and authorities need to be held accountable for giving permissions to builders without ensuring civic infrastructure.@Dev_Fadnavis @AjitPawarSpeaks @PMCPune @OfficialPMRDA ​A huge thanks to @Salonee_TOIPune and @TOIPune for bringing attention to this issue . ​#Wagholi #Pune #PuneNews #CivicIssues #PublicHealth #SewageCrisis #PMRDA #PMC #Infrastructure #WagholiAgainstCorruption

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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
@nachiket1982 Hello sir, Salonee here from Times of India. Could you please share your number with me, I am working on a story on this and would like your input. 9168220090.
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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
Auto correct is not my friend* While this is the reality across the city, some areas are forced to deal with inadequacy even when solutions stare them in the face. Bavdhan is one such example.
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Salonee Mistry@Salonee_TOIPune·
While this is the reality across the city, some areas are faced to deal with inadequacy even when solutions state them in the face. Bavdhan is one such example. google.com/amp/s/timesofi…
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