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Mumbai is not a refugee shelter


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h.g.jagtiani
tamil naran
by h.g.jagtiani on Aug 12, 2005 01:29 AM

Instead of wasting energy in long messages, be a go getter and get hold of the necks of few peoples we elect, to be responsible. mahesh bhatt is a bhatt and is a loud mouthed and ugly. You as a people, arouse people to wake up. We do not need a few lowly people to govern us, a population of over a billion people! Throw all politicians and their parties like flushed downed in a toilet. Wake up, a over billion people of our motherland, and throw the jokers and liars out.

Humananity is a chance God gave us birth, to remember God And His creations like Universe, the stars, moon, Sun, beings, trees, forests, streams, rivers, and the oceans and above all, the habitants.

Consider your article again and re revise.

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Sundar
Mumbai should have support
by Sundar on Aug 10, 2005 01:10 PM

Just develop many financial hubs from Chennai,Bangalore,Hyderabad,Ahmedabad,Amritsar and mainkly Guwahati.This is very important.

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labrea
Mumbia...not refugee shelter
by labrea on Aug 10, 2005 05:49 AM

India is cursed to struggle from disaster to disaster ad infinitum, with little if any progress in contingency planning or any kind of remediation. Mumbai is no exception. So folks get used to living with filth and squalor, and above all, non-governance by corrupt, selfish, inept, uncaring incompetent netas and babus. Live with it - it's your destiny, your karma!

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Bidendu
Mumbai floods
by Bidendu on Aug 09, 2005 02:03 AM

It appears to me that -- whatever solutions we might think up -- Mumbai is on a slide down the proverbial slippery slope. It is just a practical example of what happens when there is a "double whammy" of population explosion and economic stagnation in a country. Either you have multiple smaller and manageable cities and towns where people can find work and lead decent lives -- or you have a situation where economic pressure pushes people towards the financial centers which are the large cities like Mumbai. The city administration has been overwhelmed by the sheer task on hand and have given up. That they are poor quality people and never equal to the task was self evident. Also a system which promotes the corrupt and inefficient and punishes the honest and hardworking is not going to solve the poor manpower issue ever. The current floods are a symptom and not the disease itself. The lesson is that there cannot be islands of prosperity in an ocean of poverty. Either the prosperous exercise their brainpower to find ways to move the less prosperous forward -- or the sheer numbers of the less prosperous just would overwhelm their oases with turn every city into a Mumbai.

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labrea
Mumbai is not a refugee shelter
by labrea on Aug 09, 2005 12:15 AM

People in India enter politics for one reason and one reason only - power, which opens all doors to instant wealth - looting the exchecquer is standard fare. Any policy changes which shift controls from these criminals will be shot down instantly, because who's stupid enough to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. So India is forever cursed to being a stinking poverty stricken slum thanks to criminal netas and babus, and an uncaring self-centered public.

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Swapneel
Question about mumbai?
by Swapneel on Aug 09, 2005 12:03 AM

What are the duties of Mayor of Mumbai? Is it just a namesake honorary post or the Mayor has some duties to do at all? I dont think the Municipal organisations (BMC) are under direct control or directive of the Chief Minister. In fact the CM probably doesnt and shouldnt have any role in city Management/planning/development, that would be overkill. I think the city management doesnt have clear accountability. They are obviously not proactive but they should have certain guidelines about how to function effectively and in adverse co. Their staff is probably untrained, temporary, underpaid. Mumbai needs people who can think clearly and make good decisions. The mumbai city administration (wot ever that is?) should get regular feed back and employ consultants to determine potential issues and measures to fix them. They need a think tank. All big cities have problems, other cities seem to work at it, but Mumbai just surrenders when there is a problem. Mumbai needs NGOs, good thinkers and people genuinely concerned about the city. New initiatives are needed for all the problems. I remember "Green Mumbai Clean Mumbai" initiative some years ago. People need to be educated in problem areas.

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Vivek
Dont worry about Mumbai
by Vivek on Aug 08, 2005 10:51 PM

Its a useless suggestion that Mumbai should be union territory. Actually Maharashtra is one of the most developed states in India and Mumbai is part of Maharashtra. The main problem behind Mumbais predicament is inflow of people from failed states like Bihar, UP and Bengal. The real solution of the problem is put UP Bihar and Bengal under military rule to make sure people can live in these places and they dont leave these states and go to cities like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Mumbai. These failed states have a large number of MPs in parliament and hence more Ministers. Making Mumbai a Union Territory is giving the power to govern Mumbai to failed state Ministers like Laloo, Pasvan and Communists, who spoiled their own states and already have shown their failure in every position they took. In Mumbai after recent floods look at the Railway department managed by central government still not recovered while BEST bus service and Maharashtra state transport did a better job.
The solution is to stop the overflow of people in Mumbai. The capacity of the whole area around Mumbai is 30lakh people while currently there are 4 times more people. The only thing the Central Government can do is to help the excess population mostly form UP/Bihar back to where they were and make their hometown livable. Mumbai and Maharashtra will take care of themselves.


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shilpa
hi
by shilpa on Aug 08, 2005 09:07 PM

yes there are a lot of problems in India and we are not sure where do we start to solve them. I think the key problem is our huge population. Government is doing a lot about it but there is a need for more awareness to implement its programs. We can all help by spreading the awareness among the key populations such as rikshaw- walas ,taxi drivers,household servants etc. For example government makes available birth control pills for just 2Rs/month in all medical shops but these people are not aware of it. We can change it.

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Lparkar
where is my tax money going
by Lparkar on Aug 08, 2005 05:29 PM

The only answer I want is accountability related to the money I dole out as alms(read TAX) to the goverment.

Where is this money going, projects are proposed and get delayed because of the red tape and escalate the costs. These very bueraucrats say I dont want the money go down the drains, related to the drainage proposals, that comment suggests that the person thinks its his inherited property from which he is paying the project, sorry to say its my hard earned money about which you are talking that I have doled out as Tax to the irresponsible person like you.

I feel most of the money goes into maintanence of these public servents (read MP, MLA, Corporators & Bueraucrats), these very people who are there to serve the people are actually been serviced by the people, or else why on earth when we dont have a modern drainage system that out ministers have mordern cars. Few months back there was a proposal for Skoda Octavias for the MLA, guys one Octavia can house atleast 10 families of the slums in mumbai into decent houses.

I think the GOI has to publish its A/C related to the expenditure it incurs on these so called public servants and also look into streamlining the same.

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