{"id":60469,"date":"2025-08-22T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=60469"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:30:36","slug":"mithi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mithi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Mithi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mithi River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police recently arrested a 49-year-old contractor in connection with the multi-crore Mithi river desilting fraud that has caused losses of over \u20b965 crore to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mithi River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mithi river is one of the four rivers flowing through the <\/span><b>Mumbai city, Maharashtra.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river <\/span><b>originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the <\/span><b>overflow of Vihar Lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also<\/span><b> receives the overflows from the Powai Lake <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about 2 km downstream.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows for<\/span><b> 18 km <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before<\/span><b> discharging into the Arabian Sea <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Mahim Creek, flowing through residential and industrial complexes of Powai, Saki Naka, Kurla, Kalina, Vakola, Bandra Kurla Complex, Dharavi and Mahim.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river has an average width of 5 metres in the upper reaches, has been widened to 25 m in the middle reaches and up to 70 m in the lower reaches after the 26 July 2005 deluge (944 mm in 24 h on 26 July 2005)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It is a <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">seasonal river, which feeds on the monsoons.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/mumbai-news\/one-more-contractor-arrested-in-65-crore-mithi-river-desilting-fraud-101755801562771.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mithi River is one of the four rivers flowing through the Mumbai city, Maharashtra. Read more about Mithi River, State, Length, Origin, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":60442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2308],"class_list":{"0":"post-60469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-mithi-river","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}