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Mithi River is an 18.64-km seasonal river with residential slum pockets and industrial patches alongside it.

Cong leader alleges violation of Central Vigilance Commission guidelines in Mithi River tender

October 03, 2025 8:44 pm

According to the CVC guidelines, after a tender has been published, the eligibility criteria must not be made stricter in order to avoid reducing competition.

Rescued amid rain woes: Youth trapped in Mithi river, 93-yr-old man without oxygen support

August 19, 2025 11:29 pm

The police have warned people from entering the water in Powai lake or Mithi river

A train stops in its tracks between Kurla and Tilaknagar Station on the Harbour line due to waterlogging as Mithi river neared the danger level-mark. (Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)

Water level in Mithi nears danger mark, BMC & NDRF evacuate residents

August 19, 2025 9:27 pm

However, civic officials have maintained that the incomplete desilting work was not the sole cause of concern that led to swelling up of the water level.

Mithi desilting scam: ED's second round of raids target 8 locations of BMC contractors in Mumbai

July 31, 2025 3:29 pm

Massive corruption allegedly occurred in the desilting work sanctioned by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to clean sludge from the Mithi riverbed after the 2005 Mumbai floods.

A general view of Mithi river is seen, at Mahim west in Mumbai on 28 July 2025. (Express photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee)

Inspired by South Korea, BMC to install 25 floodgates along Mithi River for Rs 2,300 crore to prevent flooding

July 28, 2025 5:35 pm

The areas that will get relief from flooding after these gates are installed include Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), Taximen’s colony in Bandra East, Dharavi, and Dadar.

Demolition drive targets ‘illegal’ shrimp ponds along Mithi creek’s banks

July 09, 2025 8:54 pm

The Mithi creeks were recently inundated at some places, resulting in a flood-like situation in Sachin, Limbayat, Udhna, Punagam, and Khajod areas, according to officials

Mithi river desilting scam | Wrongful loss of public money of BMC to which common Mumbaikars give tax: Court

June 30, 2025 11:59 pm

It added that fake photographs were uploaded and fake logsheets maintained to show that the vehicles were making trips to collect silt from the river

BMC completes nearly 70% of pre-mosoon desilting work of Mithi river

June 21, 2025 11:25 pm

The desilting of Mithi river was supposed to be completed by May 31. Following the early onset of monsoon, the deadline was revised to June 7

Bollywood actor Dino Morea arrives at the office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai, in connection with the alleged Mithi river desilting case.

ED questions actor Dino Morea: What is the alleged multi-crore Mithi river scam?

June 15, 2025 3:12 pm

Probe agencies claim to have uncovered financial irregularities worth crores, indicating large-scale corruption in the functioning of Asia’s biggest and most cash-rich municipal body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).