dug up mumbai

DUG UP MUMBAI!

We are nearing the end of May and the monsoon season will begin from mid June. However, everywhere you see in Mumbai, the roads are completely dug up and there seems to be no end in site! There seems to be no urgency in the road work and this digging exercise has been going on for the past several months.. Apart from causing traffic snarls, these dug up roads are posing a serious danger to the elderly and children.. Why does the road work have to be done all of a sudden only few months before the state assembly elections is a question that needs answering. Couldnt the work have begun in September last year when the rains ceased? Why is there no urgency in completing the work? It hardly takes these people a couple of days to ruin a perfectly fine stretch of road and then they take several months to relay it and concretize it.. it is more than obvious this work will not end before the onset of the monsoon which will only make the roads and traffic even more worse and hazardous.. I hope that some of the workaholic and performance oriented attitude of the new PM rubs off to the various municipal corporations and the state ministers as well.. Image