The contribution to the exchequer is a fallacy, as is the thought that Mumbai produces all the money being paid as corporate tax. If Tata Steel Head quartered in Mumbai pays tax in Mumbai,it is not revenue belonging to Mumbai, Tata Steel in India does it's production in Jharkand. That is what the majority of the Mumbai contribution to the exchequer comes from,not neccecarily from business and revenue earned in Mumbai but from corporates headquartered here and filing returns here. If anyone is responsible for the decline of the city it is the local politicians and not the center, it is the local governments who have bled the city and pandered to the rural areas as the majority seats come from rural areas. They have allowed slums to come up and bulders to run riot and not the central govt,they have ensured the continuation of the Mumbai rent control act that penalised the landlord and gives the tenants all the rights, and the metro is a local government issue, DMRC is not Indian railways but an independent body- you cannot have the cake and eat it too- no to central rule in Mumbai and yes to central funding of metro- and the mumbai local trains LOSE money and are not profitable, And incidentally Calcutta was the first to get a metro, a decade before Delhi- and the central govt or the railways were not involved in that either. So get your facts right before getting on your high horse Athale.
