The pathetic situation of flooding in Mumbai point out the weaknesses of BMC and our government system. The central government every year sanctions crores of rupees for development of Mumbai, but the development hardly takes place, but the money goes to the pockets of corrupt BMC officials and Politicians. We are paying toll tax for roads which are having pot holes, Electricity for havng load shedding, Transportaion for inefficient/poor services. As an Indian citizen does anybody knows when the amount is sanctioned to state government by central government for city development, how it is used and does anybody carry out the audit of same and disclose to public????
Feel pathetic for our nation for ruining a Financial Capital City (Mumbai)of India.
RE:Mumbai....Mumbai....Mumbai
by Rehman SH on Jun 30, 2007 10:33 PM Permalink
All our planners, thinkers, and we ourselves should try our best to start living in natural conditions, giving a small space for concrete structures to stand and more space for rain water to be imbibed into soil where ever it strikes the ground. If we make hundreds of hectares of land concretized or barren, no doubt we are inviting runoff, consequently floods. At last me have developed to such an extent that we have forgotten to save and protect the three most important elements for our living that - pure air, potable water and unadulterated food. Except this we are getting all other thing on this earth, now. These things nature has provided us. But we destroyed it arrogantly to hurl the flag of material development. At least now everybody should try to give less importance to live in concrete structures and more importance to live in natural locales, that is within our residential or office boundaries. When 75% of living space is covered with vegetation and only and hardly 25% with bloody concrete, the human existence can be guaranteed for the future. Otherwise the human existence itself will be questionable. More planting - less mining, more naturality - less artificiality, is demanding. Try to minimize all kinds of pollution at all three stages like mining, manufacturing and utilization levels, as whatever we are now noticing is due to global warming. The main culprit here is our unending wants, those demand manufacturing, that in turn demand mining.
