How can one fix the uncontrolled growth of Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, or any other city in India? One answer to to devote enough resources and attention, and public debate to solve the issue. Another is to see how the country can develop a decentralized economy, which lays more emphasis on villages or small cities. Mahatma Ghandhi tried to promote the welfare of villages thro the development of cottage industries. The 21st century answer may be networking, telecommuting, and other ways of improving employment in the villages.
It will be nice to see organizations such as the Shiv Sena devote time to improving civic services for all citizens
If the citizens follow the rules of the land while constructing houses and all other types of structures and the municipal corporation enforces the rules strictly and if the politicians do not interfere for selfish reasons, this inundation would not have happened in the first place. And why 90% of the development should happen only in and around mega concrete jungles called metros? Why not more uniform development all over the country ? Institutionalised corruption and complete lack of accountability on the part of government bureaucracy are certainly some of the root causes for this deluge. Nature can not be blamed at all. It has every right to behave as it likes. We the humans, especially herein India, should wake up before nature decides to teach us much more painful lessons.
Simply thinking what to do it is raining heavily is nonsense when entire machinery is at the disposal.Do they need to be told by "mother' to go and help people immediately. Had the entire machenery been put to work immediately much could have been saved. It is rubbish to come to help when everything is distroyed and distribute money. whose money is it any way for distribution.One should be ashamed of such attitude saying sorry and begging pardon when people shout and that too when they lost their voice due to losses incurred.
Its such a shame that something like rainfall( even heavy rainfall ) has lead to the death of almost a 1000 people. This was no Tsunami, or an Earthquake, or terrorsist bombs. This was caused by rainfall and has not been a sudden force of nature. Granted that the rains were the heaviest recorded, but still 1000 people dying and millions others affected is still not an acceptable figure.
The government has been seeing the situation going from bad to worse since days now, whereas in other countries, disaster management strategies start coming in to effect in hours, in India we are seeing people still dying due to the lack of intiative from the govt. Why was their a delay in bringing the army in ? Where are the disaster managemnt teams which should have learnt from the tsunami in some parts of the country, One figure I would like to know is - How many government offfcials dies in mumbai due to rains ? or How many officials from the dept. of weather forecast died ? Why the crores of rupees supposedly spent on weather forecasting did not give us a warning. SHAME! that The govt talks of installing tusnami warning system.when they have done nothing to cope with heavy rains.
A powerful city brought down to shame, and who is everyone pointing fingers at... Shouldnt All of us take responsibility for the crisis today instead of blaming someone else for our problems. Its a culture these days finding a way out is as easy as pointing at someone and not taking responsibility... It should be a community thing more than anything. People of mumbai all of you'll are educated someway or the other, put them to use, dont just be selfish and say the government is gonna do something for you. Use the government to channelize things and to bring order. And stop voting for gangsters and elements of society who come up on the basis of muscle power. Use educated people. It's time you wake up and smell the coffee.... Take control.. Don't let your child, your future be swept away in the tide of bureaucracy do something about it as an individual. That is what Gandhiji did, as an individual
I remember our school principal who used to get us on our feet (and on our heads) with his impromptu drills and surprise checks. Whether its health, fitness, study or gk. We were on guard. Not twitching. Not flinching. So u remaing prepared. Atleast collectively.
This weather has come in the very same manner for me and most of us in this great city. My suggestion, we must invite 50 VIP's (international-better, national-could go down well!) to visit 50 of the 'required-to-be-upgraded' places in the city. Bingo...just like how the matrons get you cleaning your cupboard and workstations in school, you will have the mohallahs and the babus joining in to get the place a bit tidy.
All we need is some good hype around the dignitary...
Surprising how clean the city got transformed to when Clinton bhaiya came over. Or maybe we need the plague to work its magic over this city.
As far as BMC goes, DAM the fellas...lets get ready to shock and awe them.
One of the interesting thing to note would be to see what the government does once the Mumbai rains recede and the media coverage reduces.I am sure many people are hoping that this time they would see something constructive happen, but unfortunately they are hoping against hope.
It might be considered an irony, but it is fact that inspite of India being one of those countries where natural disasters are so common, there is no Crisis Management team in either the central government or the state government. Every time a major crisis happens people think that it would open up the eyes of the concerned authorities. Unfortunately you cannot open an already open eye.
Mumbai rains is one of the rare occasions, think about the cyclones in Orrisa, every year thousands of people die, and the netas and government take pride in counting how many casualties were there in their regime than in their predecessors, not that they can try to rule out the casualties by proactiveness.
Even in the most corrupt and disturned nations of the world there is some unity and honesty in times of natural disasters, but in our country it is the time of year for when few people look toward making gains.
India will never change unless the attitude of the nation changes. If you see developed nations, they defined the rules to live with and follow. They scribbled nice rules without selfishness and must follow atleast with fear. Our government officials wont be sacked even if it is proved that they are corrupted. lobbying and all the curruption is only a byproduct of the stupid rules in the law. I dont know wether we can change the law but in a long term, I see with good education, people's attitude will change and eventually a good governance will be seen. I've been in USA for the past 4 years and I strictly abide the rules of this nation if not, your life will be terrible here. Thats the power of Law. Hope to see those stringent rules implemented by our government and will be accepted by our indian people.
