List of airlines operating from CSIA

Gate A

Airline Code	Airline		Office
AI	Air India		+91 22 28318056
BN	Bahrain Air		+91 22 66859647
CO	United Airlines		+91 22 26829073
9W	Jet Airways		+91 22 66854301

Gate B

Airline Code	Airline		Office
AI	Air India		+91 22 28318056
MK	Air Mauritius		+91 22 26829376
D7	Air Asia X		+91 22 66859900
MS	Egypt Airways		+91 22 26813512
ET	Ethiopian Airlines		+91 22 66859410
KE	Korean Airways		+91 22 26829305
PK	Pakistan International		+91 22 66859198
RJ	Royal Jordian
SQ	Singapore Airways		+91 22 26829420
SA	South African Airways		+91 22 26828789
TG	Thai Airways		+91 22 26828950
IY	Yemen Airways		+91 22 66859500

Gate C

Airline Code	Airline		Office
KB 207	Druk Air
LY	El-Al-Israel Airlines		+91 22 66859426
EK	Emirates Airlines		+91 22 26829917
LH	Luftansa Airways		+91 22 66859898
MH	Malayasian Airways		+91 22 26828933
QF	Qantas Airways		+91 22 66859110
UL	Srilankan Airways		+91 22 66859365
LX	Swiss Airlines		+91 22 66859057
TK	Turkish Airlines		+91 22 66859314

Gate D

Airline Code	Airline		Office
OS	Austrian Airways		-
BA	British Airways		+91 22 66859437
CX	Cathay Pacific Airways		+91 22 66859016
DL	Delta Airlines		+91 22 66859172
EY	Eithad Airways		+91 22 66859360
GF	Gulf Airways		+91 22 66859134
IR	Iran Airways		+91 22 66859300
KU	Kuwait Airways		+91 22 66859236
KQ	Kenya Airways		+91 22 66859344
WY	Oman Air		+91 22 66859555
QR	Qatar Airways		+91 22 66859540
SV	Saudi Airlines		+91 22 26828673

Source: http://www.csia.in/flightinfo/airlines.aspx

Seepz Church

The origins of the parish of St. John the Evangelist can be traced back to two mass convertions at Marol.  Some of the inhabitants of Marol were among the 500 people who were converted when the neighbouring church at Condita was opened for public worship on the feast of St. John the Baptist in the year 1579.  The second mass conversion took place on the eve of the feast of the Assumption in 1588, when the whole village of Marol became Catholic.  Soon 13 other villages around Marol followed its example.  Marol and surrounding villages received the Catholic faith through the pioneering efforts of Jesuit Brother Manuel Gomes, “The Apostle of Salsette.”

After Powai, Marol was a stronghold of Christianity in this region of the island.  The Jesuit Report of 1669 tells us that the parish comprised 1380 Catholics in Marol, 302 in Condita, 246 in Gundowli and 219 in Chakala.

The original church of this parish was built in 1579 at Condita at a point north of the presentvillage of Kondivita and northwest of the present church.  The major portion of this church is still standing. We do not know when the name of this Condita church was changed from “St.John the Baptist” to “St. John the Evangelist.”  According to the information provided by Fr. Humbert (I: 53) the name had already changed by 1716.

The church at Condita escaped the ravage of the Maratha war, for it continued to have Vicars, now secular priests, appointed to it from 1739 onwards (Humbert, I:141), who also looked after the remnant Christian community at Powai.  Due to the outbreak of a devastating epidemic, Fr. Jose Lourenco Paes, the Vicar of Condita at the time, having built a new church in the village of Marol in 1840, “ transferred the parish from Condita to Marol and the old church and parish house was abandoned” (Humbert II:63). Before the old church feel into disrepair, the statues, the baptismal font, the altars and a few pillars were transferred to the new church at Marol.

At the entrance of the present church of Marol stands a historic 4-foot statue of Our Lady with the child Jesus, known as the statue of OL of Amparo (Help).  This statue was once venerated in the church of the same name that now lies submerged under the waters of theVikar Lake.  This statue was brought to Marol between 1842-1853 (Humbert, II: 65, 85), when the Bombay Municipality acquired the Vihar Valley with the church in it from the Vicar of Marol for a compensation of Rs.1944.10 as. One of the Baptismal Registers of the church ofOL of Amparo (1804-1832) is still preserved at Marol.

Till about the year 1973, Mass was celebrated annually at the ruined church of Condita. This practice was discontinued when the property comprising a picturesque lake and the ruined church was acquired by the Government for SEEPZ (Santacruz Electronic Export Processing Zone.) The SEEPZ Authorities intend to preserve the ruined church as a historical monument.

The parish of Marol has given birth to two new parishes: Holy Family at Chakala in 1943 at its western end, and St. Vincent Pallotti in 1981 at its northern end.  However, in spite of these “detachments” the parish of St. John the Evangelist continues to grow due to the influx of Catholics into the numerous Housing Societies in the neighbourhood.

Santacruz Electronic Export processing Zone (SEEPZ)

Seepz was created in 1973 and was seen as export processing zone. SEEPZ mainly houses Electronic Hardware Manufacturing Companies, Software Companies and jewellery exporters of India. Despite its name, it is not located near the suburb of Santacruz, rather it is located closer to Andheri that lies further north.

Prominent companies that have offices within Seepz include: Navteq, Renaissance Jewellery Ltd, Gitanjali Gems Ltd, Vaibhav Gems Ltd, D’damas for Jewelry. IT Companies include Blue Star Infotech Ltd, Praxis Interactive Services Ltd, CGI Group Inc., Thirdware, iGATEPatni Computer Systems, Tata Consultancy Services, Geodesic Limited, Trigyn Technologies Limited,Syntel Limited, Datamatics Global Services Limited.

There are also Hotels like Indian Coffee House which is quite popular.

Seepz Church: http://www.east-indians.com/seepzchurch.htm

The origins of the parish of St. John the Evangelist can be traced back to two mass conversions at Marol.  Some of the inhabitants of Marol were among the 500 people who were converted when the neighboring church at Condita was opened for public worship on the feast of St. John the Baptist in the year 1579.  The second mass conversion took place on the eve of the feast of the Assumption in 1588, when the whole village of Marol became Catholic.  Soon 13 other villages around Marol followed its example.  Marol and surrounding villages received the Catholic faith through the pioneering efforts of Jesuit Brother Manuel Gomes, “The Apostle of Salsette.”

After Powai, Marol was a stronghold of Christianity in this region of the island.  The Jesuit Report of 1669 tells us that the parish comprised 1380 Catholics in Marol, 302 in Condita, 246 in Gundawli and 219 in Chakala.

The original church of this parish was built in 1579 at Condita at a point north of the present village of Kondivita and northwest of the present church.  The major portion of this church is still standing. We do not know when the name of this Condita church was changed from “St.John the Baptist” to “St. John the Evangelist.”  According to the information provided by Fr. Humbert (I: 53) the name had already changed by 1716.

The church at Condita escaped the ravage of the Maratha war, for it continued to have Vicars, now secular priests, appointed to it from 1739 onwards (Humbert, I:141), who also looked after the remnant Christian community at Powai.  Due to the outbreak of a devastating epidemic, Fr. Jose Lourenco Paes, the Vicar of Condita at the time, having built a new church in the village of Marol in 1840, “ transferred the parish from Condita to Marol and the old church and parish house was abandoned” (Humbert II:63). Before the old church feel into disrepair, the statues, the baptismal font, the altars and a few pillars were transferred to the new church at Marol.

At the entrance of the present church of Marol stands a historic 4-foot statue of Our Lady with the child Jesus, known as the statue of OL of Amparo (Help).  This statue was once venerated in the church of the same name that now lies submerged under the waters of the Vikar Lake.  This statue was brought to Marol between 1842-1853 (Humbert, II: 65, 85), when the Bombay Municipality acquired the Vihar Valley with the church in it from the Vicar of Marol for a compensation of Rs.1944.10 as. One of the Baptismal Registers of the church of OL of Amparo (1804-1832) is still preserved at Marol.

Till about the year 1973, Mass was celebrated annually at the ruined church of Condita. This practice was discontinued when the property comprising a picturesque lake and the ruined church was acquired by the Government for SEEPZ (Santacruz Electronic Export Processing Zone.) The SEEPZ Authorities intend to preserve the ruined church as a historical monument.

The parish of Marol has given birth to two new parishes: Holy Family at Chakala in 1943 at its western end, and St. Vincent Pallotti in 1981 at its northern end.  However, in spite of these “detachments” the parish of St. John the Evangelist continues to grow due to the influx of Catholics into the numerous Housing Societies in the neighborhood.

Planet Garbage: Mumbai the Capital

OTHER SPHERE
ANURAG BEHAR
15 Dec 2011



Last year, I started travelling again to
small towns and villages, an India
that I had discovered in the 1980s and
1990s. I was seeing those places at close
quarters after more than 10 years. There
were many striking and visible changes.
The most overwhelming was the sight of
India drowning in rubbish.
Standing in the exquisite Garhwal,
if you move your eyes off the picture perfect
mountains and streams, and to
the place you are standing, you will find
rubbish. The Nilgiris, the Aravalis…it’s
all the same. On the scorched plains of
Gulbarga or of anywhere else, in this
generally scorched nation, you will find
the same heaps of rubbish. Rubbish
is the common denominator of all
landscapes in India.
It’s the plastic that has done it. The
polyethylene (and similar material) bags
are the primary culprits. In a rapidly
urbanizing India, the mix of waste has
an ever-increasing proportion of such
plastic. The only way to handle plastic
waste is to have civic systems to handle
it. These are completely absent or
woefully inadequate across the country.
The plastic sets up another problem: it
also does not let even organic waste
decompose naturally.
India’s high growth rate is generating
an ocean of rubbish, for which we are
doing nothing. This is the most visible
of the many challenges posed by changing 
consumption patterns and urbanization.
The McKinsey Global Institute
published an excellent study in April
2010: India’s Urban Awakening. As with
any such study that would look out till
2030, we can quarrel with many of its
assumptions and conclusions. However,
the broad conclusions are unarguable:
India will be a lot more urban in 2030;
unless we dramatically increase our
investment in urban infrastructure, life
will be much worse in cities; and the
current signs suggest that indeed things
are going to be much worse—with the
gap between supply and need of urban
services widening sharply. Urban
services include waste and sewage
disposal, water supply, transport, etc.
The study estimates that we need to
invest $1.2 trillion through 2030 in
urban infrastructure for our cities to
become livable. As valuable as it is, the
study still understates the problem. Its
benchmark estimate is of about 6,000
cities in India in 2030, which may be
much lower than the actual number.
The reasons for this understatement
are quite understandable: it is very
difficult to demarcate urban and rural
spaces, and the problem is compounded
by rapid urbanization. While
habitations may be “rural” by many
relevant measures, they may also be
“urban” by some other. Most common
is the situation where consumption
patterns move rapidly to what may be
called urban, but most other things
remain rural.
Such places do not necessarily need
all the complex civic services of a
full-fledged city, but they do need some
of the basic services, e.g. waste and
sewage disposal, water supply. When
one considers the numbers (increasing
by the day) of such habitations in the
twilight zone of urban and rural—and to
that adds all the cities (say 6,000), then
one sees a glimpse of the scale of the
problem.
It’s this scale of the problem that is
already visible in the context of waste in
its most gruesome form, of rubbish
created by plastic, generated by consumption
overtaking all infrastructure
and services. Meanwhile, our cultural
mores continue to remain apathetic to
this rapidly unfolding environmental,
health and aesthetic tragedy.
Let me propose three partial solutions
for handling this rubbish, for the cities
and the part-urban areas. I am aware
that each (or the combination) of these
solutions can be shot down, riddled
with holes of impracticality or ideology.
First is for the National Rural Livelihoods
Mission to catalyse a disposal
chain for plastic waste, including
collection, sorting and recycling. This
can be done at the satellite villages of
all urban centres. This will handle the
plastic and generate livelihood.
Second is for all corporations,
panchayats and talukas to invest in
effective waste-disposal systems that do
not end up as landfills. This would include
handling and reuse of the plastic.
The substantial investments required
could be partly funded through taxes on
key polluters such as polyethylene bags.
Third is to just shut down all units
that make bags out of polyethylene (and
similar material) or construct a targeted
tax structure that is heavily punitive.
Whatever systems we adopt to tackle
the rubbish physically, as a society we
need to tackle its roots. And for this, we
need changes in attitude and behaviour.
The apathy of producers and consumers
must be changed through education
and sensitization. Likewise, we must
bear the real cost of the use of plastic.
Governments, local and national, can
make both changes happen through
education, regulation and taxation.
This most visible of all tragedies of
our commons, at its core, requires the
same thing for its solution that is in
short supply—political will.


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Anurag Behar is chief executive officer
of Azim Premji Foundation and also
leads sustainability issues for Wipro Ltd.
He writes every fortnight on issues of
ecology and education. Comments are
welcome at othersphere@livemint.com