India's financial capital, a city that never sleeps, Bollywood's capital - that's Mumbai. In the words of the late Raj Kapoor: `Yeh hai Mumbai meri jaan.'Well, a new study has shown that stress, unhealthy living style and sprawling slums are drastically pulling down the lifespan graph of Mumbaikars. In short, people in Mumbai die younger compared to the national average.
The recently published Human Development Report 2009 prepared by the National Resource Centre for Urban Poverty and the All India Institute of Local Self Government, Mumbai , shows that the average Mumbaikar is likely to die at least seven years before other Indians and about 12 years before people living in the rest of Maharashtra.
According to The Times of India which quoted the report, Mumbaikars on an average live to the age of 56.8 years. Life expectancy is 52.6 years for men and 58.1 years for women - against the national average of 63.7 years for both males and females.
Welcome to Arunachal Pradesh... Pristine land atleast till now...
Politicians will continue to be the same everywhere... you are voting them, so bear with them....
YES. These **** Politicians sitting pretty in MANTRALAYA in POWER term-after-term of 5 years are controlling about a 100 million people.
01. They are usurping all available space(allotting to the Builders' Lobby)for a certain sum transferred to their BLACK MONEY A/CS(vide Koda's case)in crores and none of us are able to do a **** about these conspiracies.
02. Unregulated entry of people from all states,especially from Uttar Pardes and Bihar which are having wide roads and huge parks,whereas Mumbaikars are being squeezed out of even "WALKING SPACE".
03. The BEST Buses are OVER-CROWDED and in some sectors you will find the BEST Buses not having enough ledge to even "hang-on" as they turn U turns dangerously.
04. Trains' overcrowding is ofcourse legendary and no matter 12 or 15 or even 30 rakes the overcrowding will continue unabated. The Administration just does not want to answer the "root-causes" of "overcrowding" addressing only the capacity of the trains to carry commuters.
05. The "UNRESTRICTED VEHICLE EXPANSION". These **** only want their "cuts" on every Vehicle produced and their VAT(Value Added Tax) on every vehicle sold to up their ante.
06. The nonsense of "PARKING RATES TO BE DOUBLED" is like catching your umbrella in the Mumbai rains....All Parking LOTS in places like Markets are indirectly owned by the RTO Cops themselves and hence they want to "double" their revenues. It is crystal clear this Idea was mooted by the Mumbai Traffic Cops themselves for their self-aggrandisement.
07. There is NO CHECK ON ILLEGAL PARKING ON ARTERIAL ROADS. For eg. in SAKI NAKA TRUCKS/TEMPOS/AUTOS rule the roost and the Cops there hand-in-glove with the mafia there. We NEVER see any auto or tempo "TOWED" there...only hapless Two-Wheelers. The Trucks and Tempos are now parked 4-tier on the now-concretised ASALPHA road connecting Ghatkoper to SAKI NAKA. NO COPS ARE BOTHERED ABOUT DE-CONGESTING traffic there.
08. About increased use of Public Transport: It takes nearly 2 hours for traversing a 1.5 Km distance from Saki Naka to Ghatkoper. The amount of "STRESS" it puts the people into is unbelievable....and conditions are "deteriorating" with every day. One can't get even an Auto after 6.30 pm as all are full. BEST Buses come "jam-packed" and one doesn't know whether one will reach in one-piece home.
09. No attempt is made by the BEST to insist on re-routing their BEST Buses on ONLY "decongested" Highways. The BEST Management is benignly looking on despite the harrowing experiences of its BEST Drivers on these mad roads of Saki Naka/Ghatkoper/Andheri. One wonders whether the BEST has no clout to insist on "economical" routes where there is no "wastage of Diesel" due to waiting in unmoving traffic in peak hours.
10. They should "STOP HETEROGENOUS TRAFFIC MOVEMENT". An attempt should be made to "homogenise" Vehicular Traffic Movement so that the present "chaos" is avoided. The squeezing in of Autos and the restraint shown by BEST Buses is to be seen to be believed. Why should BEST Buses be forced to travel at the same speed of autos? Aren't BEST Buses supposed to be carrying a large number of people to their destinations in the shortest time??
11. Make 4 ELEVATIONS OF ROADS to allow for "heavy Vehicles",one for BEST Buses and the other for small but fast Vehicles like Autos and Cars,and one for "Two Wheelers".
It is high time MUMBAI ADMINISTRATION took EFFECTIVE Measures to DECONGEST THE CITY else Mumbai will deteriorate into a "NON-MOVING PAINFUL MUMBAI"
I think we are forgetting the basic point here. Why is Mumbai so crowded? It is because people from rural areas are still migrating to this already overcrowded city. And why is that happening? Because our villages still do not have basic amenities. People are still struggling for jobs, food and water. If we develop the rural areas first, give jobs to those people, make sure the crops flourish, then will they move to cities and dwell in slums? I don't think so.
Yes big cities do need infrastructure, but let's not forget, we should concentrate on our rural areas first, make them livable, the urban areas will become less crowded then. Mumbai will live again and mumbaikars will live longer :)
Time to realise for every Mumbaite....
Lets push for better Infrastructure, Development, Healthcare & Town Planning , We deserve our hard earned quality time/future/health/life, or else its all jst not worth the effort!!!
Cant believe, Mumbai pays the most tax & we hard earning professionals cant even get a quality way of life.....
"Bombay" now called Mumbai. It is obviously dream city do not match any other city
in India. The politicians spin this city the way they want, but the old still lying
everywhere. It is beautiful clean and dirty no matter whatwoever. We have to call
Bombay is "Dreamgirl. Once it is changed into Bombay to Mumbai does not match this
name but however our trouble maker need to show their guts.
You got to shift out of Manhattan, and establish self sustained townships as in Long Island. Start green, well spread out, and density of population per 100 sq yards should be strictly defined. Offices, schools, institutions to spread out as well. Even the Stock Exchange can have five more arms on the outer townships. Wide roads and parks yes, waterbodies here and there by trapping sea the sea, and yet connect through a canal. Set up Wi-Fi Towers to cover 200 od sq kms, to reduce commuting.
Just the time to start
NOT LOGICAL
The Bombay it used to be and Mumbai now are two diffrent cities. Lets accept. Its dirty, filthy,outgrown, over used, overcrowded,imbalanced. Except for a few patches here and there, its all a chaos-unmanagable.
Think quick, think radical-save the city we are proud of. Go beyond mumbaikar..its our own, everybody's Bombay or Mumbai, whatever.The city represents mixed culture, professionalism, amity..Lets live to that.