The State and the Municipality have failed the people miserably. The case for making Mumbai a city-state becomes all the more stronger.
Deocngest Mumbai immediately. Shift the Mantralaya by decentralising adminsitration to Nagpur, Sholapur, Ratnagiri and Kokhapur.
The Stock Exchanges can be shifted to Navi Mumbai. There is ahrdly a case for locating CR/WR HQ in Mumbai. Shift them to Vadodra, Ahmedabad or Bhusaval. Similarly, shift the Matunga workshop to Busaval and use the land for creating a new terminal to be used by WR, CR and Konkan Railways.
Drop the plans to sell the mill lands and the plan to lay a bridge on the sea connecting Nava Sheva with Sewri and the sea-freeway from Bandra to Worli for these serve only the city-bound traffic. Use instead this money to ameliorate the living conditions in northern suburbs. Levy a punitive tax on public and private sector companies which wish to continue in Nariman Point, Fort and Churchgate Reclamation.
Rains are here to satay and there is no use blaming the weather gods. Our miseries are man-made.
