Thane

Part of a green cycle initiative in Thane, you will now be able to rent a cycle from a cycle stand near you or even online!

Thane is now home to what is arguably India’s first solar-powered Community Sanitation Complex.

Apart from planting trees, an NGO will also take up the responsibility of turning the land into a thriving ecosystem.

Silver Innings, an NGO in Mumbai, organised a special drive inviting Mumbai's youth to write to aged residents of their elder-care facility.

Thane-based Purushottamlal Gupta has vowed to reduce the air pollution levels, by planting saplings and reviving the shrinking green cover in Mumbai.

Seema Kale, a traffic constable in Thane, has been rewarded for standing up to an abusive political party worker and taking action against him.

18-year-old Mohan could only study till class 7 in his village school. In Mumbai, he had to beg and sell flowers on the streets to support his family. But today, there is hope for him. Today, he is a class 8 student in the Signal School.

Satish Pawar’s family came to Mumbai from Beed district in Maharashtra in the year 1997 with the hope of finding work in the big city and building a better future for themselves. But little did they know that they’d have to spend their lives on the streets for years and generations to come.

For Aarti Parab, the development of a country is associated with the growth and development of its children, and that’s exactly the vision with which she goes to teach the children of Signal Shala each day.

Mumbai is now home to India’s first Signal School – a colourful classroom created out of a shipping container under a traffic signal flyover in Thane. This is how it operates.