The recent rains in Mumbai were an eye-opener. One hopes that the whole concept of city planning takes lessons from the series of disastrous mistakes and the total lack of developmental vision which brought Mumbai to its knees. It isn't just Mumbai, any major city of India is basically a disaster waiting to happen. Indians as people have a NIMBY attitude. They would keep their house neat but would not lift a finger to keep the area around their home clean. It is time Indians developed a civic sense, something which was taught to us cursorily years ago at school. As long as we don't have civic sense, a sense of community and a feeling of social responsibility, India will never become a developed nation. Every developed nation has got where it has because the people had a sense of responsibility. Not just Mumbai, every Indian needs to wake up and demand accountability and deliver it. That will be our first step to becoming a great nation again.
The roads which were just completed by June 2nd week have developed potholes / cracked and become unusable. Is any one responsible.. who passed the bills for such work.. See constrcution on highway.. from Andheri ( Bridge), Jogeshwari flyover south side and north side , Dindoshi, Malad ( by the side of Bridge) , Near Kurar Crossing and upto Borivali.. story is same.. The connstruction \repair was completed in June 2nd week only and the road has become worst..
How to get details of amount spent, whose resposnisbilty it is to repair roads, who has passed such constrcuion and how this all goes on year after year..
Mumbaikars pay highest octoroi, property tax, toll taxes in country and see the plight.. anybody listening..
i wud like to point out an error of shenoy's. south mumbai didnt see the same kind of devastation as the suburbs because there was simply no rainfall over there. south mumbai with its unique strip-like landscape received about 78mm of rains while the suburbs received about 930mm. let us not give any credit to the british where its not due!
Bravo to the author. though he does not live in mumbai, he has come up with with a very accurate view of the situation in mumbai. .. and i believe instead of making mumbai a state, the best option would be to shift the capital of Maharashtra to some less crowded city, well connected by rail and road. That way, the poor city will see some development. Also the aam janta from other parts of the state would not have to put up with the crowds of mumbai, and vice versa.
i congratulate the author again on a well written article. thanks.
You said about allowing Mumbai to have their own goverment. You said that Mayor and Sherrif has no hold. I agree...but why are you conveniently forgetting what Delhi has or Delhi had done? Mumbai gives lots of money and does not get back anything...Is not Delhi responsible for it? Delhi which does not need any Metro rail has got metro rail but Mumbai which wanted metro rail always asked but never got that...Is this not non-sense done by central government to Mumbai...so why just blame state government and mayor...of course they are not doing their job but do not blame them alone....Delhi has been more responsible for Mumbai's downfall...they have always looked Mumbai as thing to exploit and done it....so you feel Delhi better than Mumbai then enjoy nobody is asking you to come to Mumbai to live your life....see the conditions of normal Mumbai people and the pain faced by them...Those Bangladeshi's come to Mumbai and get 24 hours water and normal Mumbai people are deprived of basic infrastructure..Thousands of people from all over India coming and exploiting Mumbai....should these people not be stopped....so before comparing Mumbai with Delhi give answers to these questions...
