Indians! Countrymen! With the rains lashing every nook and corner of Mumbai, washing away lives and properties, reducing every mortal's dreams to mere pan of stinking garbage within a span of few hours of torrential downpour, we have resorted to throwing tantrums towards each other.The proud Government versus people who chose such a government.With no clean and organized let outs for the run offs the city turned into a series of choc-o-blocks of Puddle, Perplexed thousands of People, Plundered Properties. A massive chaos!A catstrophe that seems to have shaken the entire country.Has it?Or, are we still waiting for something more to happen? Wake up People!Let us not spend anymore of our precious time and get down to some serious work.Let us admit that each one of us breathing on this land, is responsible towards making it a livable place.The least we can do is take profound interest of keeping the surroundings of our little homes clean & organized and invest our efforts to maintain it.If we can spend money, energies and time into beautifying and organizing every little details inside our homes, then why not own up responsibilities towards doing the same for those few uncared yards??
My message to the people of Mumbaikars is wake up you sleepy people.
it has been high time that the government has been fooling us. We have been paying the highest in terms of taxes and treats like cattle in the local transport like trains and buses.
Mumbaikars should wake and stop paying taxes from this year till the govt builds good roads, better trains facility and less crowded buses.
people coming from other states should be discourahed and the population of Mumbai should be brought back to 70 lacs. The excess 70 lacs population which has come from other states after 1995 should be asked to leave.
How much can a city take . The decision should come from the capital to empty mumbai .
Today we Mumbaikars are suffering heavily due to influx of labour class people coming into the city and building slums in the heart of the city and choking up the roads. Why cant they ask their state govt to provide employment .
Hope more and more people leave their work and come to the streets and stop paying taxes to the govt till facilties are improved. Or one day it would be like a terrorist place like in J & K and other border states.
I think we have to have a Disaster Management Team of experts (who can understand the seriousness of such calamity but devoid of politicians)from various walks of life, which can suggest a plan to the government, get it sanctioned, have mock drills from time to time to ensure that the plan is implementable at the time of actual calamity. The Team could consist of volunteers from various strata of society, who could be trained and equipped, to meet the eventuality. There is no point looking towards the sky when we can do it ourselves. Mumbaikars, who have risen against all odds, can do it and stop depending on the bureaucracy / politicians to avoid lip sympathy and blame game.
I think we can not squarely blame the government also in spite of not taking certain actions. We have to blame ourselves as much as the government machinery. The clogging of drains, condition of roads, sewage systems have gone haywire equally due to our callous attitude towards our environment as well. How many people have stopped using polythene bags, how may people use the garbage bins provided by BMC, how many have objected to garbage being throuwn into drainages, how many of us have objected when people dig holes on the tar or concrete roads to erect "welcome arches" put up by politicians. We, the public, is equally to be blamed rather than blaming on the governement. Nature will teach us such lessons for the arrogance man - public, politicians or bureaucrats - shows. We always procrastinate learning from such mishaps till we are struck with another one when again the blaming game starts.
All i know that this country's govt. (either UPA or NDA) whoever comes has failed in their efforts. It is because of these govts. that bombay is today facing these kinds of problems. This system must be changed now because such type of rains can occur anytime and if not improved now many many people will again die. Now everybody is getting furious and talking of this issue but when days goes by, everybody forgets why is this happening in our country just because the laws over here are hopeless, the law and order should be made very strict, people should not only be educated to read and write but also to keep their evironment clean and not to throw grabage here n there, especially the people of slums who are dumping all wastes and their garbages into the big gutters n then the BMC not cleaning regularly atleast the BMC should do this at least one time in a month so that the wastes does not get accumulated, now various organizations are planning to do this job THEN WHAT BMC will do just eat without making any efforts then why this body is being paid?????
It also time for the other cities to wake up. It took a Tsunami for India to realise that they need a tsunami warning system. Guess it was the first time in History that a tsunami hit INdia, but heavy rainfall is something every place in India can be affected by.
So I feel its high time the government wakes up and do something about drainage and other facilities not only in Mumbai but to the whole of India. Am sure I speak for the people of India when I say, people would get angry if the government gives the same answer next time "The city - X is not capable enough to handle rainfall"!
