This is a peanut comapred to its needs. But it should be a godo beginning for us who are fed with dreams loike shanghai and singapore and ointernational financail centre. Now a WB team is coming to advise on infrastructure projects.
Will there be just priorities for developing Mumbai. Hartdly any reseaarch ahs been conducted on the pattern of flyover usage. Most trtaffic is of cars with single or two passengers. They enjoy at the edxpsnes oef poor tax payers while 8 lakhs of people who trudge in suburban trains continue to cling on doorsteps every day.
All the proejcts are orineted towards south mumbai. Until this mind set is removed, there can be little progress.
Will any political leader demand the centre to build one of the sidx ASIIM type hosopitals in Mumbai. Such is the alertness of the politicians of Mumbai to public needs.
With operative decisions at the hands of builders and developers and corporates, there is no hoope for Mumbai even if half a dozen multilateral ninstituio0ns visit to advise and help us.
Guess why China is so far ahead of India in every possible area - because they seek out the best options avaialable, including the best architects and planners the world over to devise Master Plans for their cities and follow thru on them. In India the village-idiot mindset prevails - the lowest common denominator being the standard. Apparently the professional associations whether of architects, planners, traffic engineers etc don't care or are not even consulted. The result - mediocre and substandard facilities and infrastructure. No wonder there is not a single world-class city in this stinking nation of one billion plus.
