Mumbai city is overloaded with people pouring into the city from the rest of India. While the count of people residing in the city has increased exponentially in the last 2 decades, the infrastructure development has never happened, except for the numerous fly-overs built during the SS-BJP regime in 1998-2003, thankfully. After the storm, the government should first act on making sure that deadly diseases do not spread as many animals, pest, etc. carcasses are lying everywhere thus becoming a feeding ground for diseases. They need to clear the areas of dead bodies and sprinkle anti-malaria, anti-plague and other insecticides. After this, the city planning needs to take a fresh look at the infrastructure programs to make sure that the city can accomodate, water, electricity and commuting services to every citizen of Mumbai. This can happen by completing road projects such as Bandra-Worli bridge, new western and central railway lines, a brand new man-made lake to supply clean drinking water to all the parts of the expanding Mumbai and of course by making sure power programs such as Dabhol come alive early and more distributed power generation units such as Solar, Wind and hydro.
