Hey, Back after a short break. This one comes from Mumbai. The break was for settling down here.
Well, the first couple of days were great and then came the rains, which people welcomed with great joy after the scorching heat that had gripped the city. But their happiness soon turned sour!! The Greater Mumbai region has the higest population for any metropolis in India. As I write this i got an article whose link i am pasting here. It says Delhi urban agglomeration with has the highest population in India.
http://www.livemint.com/2007/11/12235543/Delhi-not-Mumbai-is-India8.html
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2007/delhi.aspx
Coming to the topic, the BMC (Brihan Mumbai Corporation) , the wealthiest corporation in the country promises a clean and a flood free city every year. But every time the same ting keeps on repeating. Accepted, it rains very heavily here and every place cannot be covered, but what I am talking about is the fact that at most of the places the basics are where the problem lies. Roads with potholes , the first couple of days of the 2 month long monsoon saw many areas under water; very slow infrastructure building...the Santacruz flyover for example has been taking ages. Spoke to some people and they tell me it takes 3 years to build a flyover in Mumbai while in Delhi the time is around 1.5 years!! May be its because of the political pressure. But I find beacuse of the aggressive nature of the populace of Delhi, things get done there, while here its taken for granted and called the "Spirit of Mumbai" that inspite of the rains people go along with their daily lives!!
Why this step motherly treatment to this city? Everyone wants to come to Mumbai and make it big.Mumbai has given so much to this country. 50-60% of the total tax collected in India comes from this place. Its hight time that the central govt cracks the whip as it did in Delhi and solve this once city of dreams' problems. Because a strong Mumbai is needed for a strong India!!
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Well, the undoing lies in the population density (and not as much on the overall population per se) - a whopping 29000+ per sq.km. It is a far cry away from Delhi's 11000+ and Kolkatta's 7000+ !
And, that should be all the more reason stuff has to be sped up here. As far as implementation in Delhi goes, it HAS to be that much faster. After all it houses the nation's rulers. That said, it is no reason why things in Bombay needs to be so slow.
If only people were half as obsessed about laying that brick right as they are about changing street names! Phew!
And Oh! Yes! It is to be noted that Bombay got 55 flyovers in the city in less than 1.5 yrs! So, it is not that people don't work; it is just that there aren't people who would get the work done!
But I have a feeling that ppl of mumbai would jus go abt their work even if there was a broken bridge. Do ppl really stand up and ask? I feel that the race for survival is so fast that ppl actually do not think abt these things. Life is lived by the day and they carry on.
My opinion might be totally wrong cos i have never lived in mumbai.
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