I dont know why people are going on blaming BMC for what happend in Mumbai. In Oct 2000, i was a student in Miami, FL and we had to walk in waist deep water because there was a cloud burst during high tide, when sea water back-flows into the drainage system and there is no outlet for the storm drain. To add to that, drains were blocked there too. I am not saying BMC is the best and the most modern municipality in the world but still there is very little that can be done. I have seen pot holes in US too. I would say our metros have the same quality roads as anywhere in the world if not better. I agree that quality hasnt reached smaller town or outer parts of our metros but things are changing. Nagpur has very nice roads now, Mangalore does too. And remember that it was the highest rainfall ever recorded in 24 hours anywhere in India. Now you put all this together with the fact that our road side drains either dont exist or are always clogged, (Indus Valley was the first civilization to have road side drains) Roads act as channels to take the water to low lying areas. With so much development happening, water has no ground to seep into, so it will travel the path of least resistance
