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Mumbai floods

The monsoon in Mumbai throws the spotlight on poor infrastructure, inadequate city planning and, most importantly, bad drainage systems. Despite tall claims by the authorities, they remain unprepared in times of crisis. This year too, the rains have affected normal life, hampering air, road and rail transport and leading to waterlogging in agriculture land. While development has become synonymous will malls, MNCs, etc., we lack progress at the grass roots.

Chetna Kinger,
Gurgaon, Haryana

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It looks like the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has learnt nothing from last year's monsoon. While experts feel waterlogging in Mumbai is because of rapid development and lack of vacant land, it may not be entirely true. Heavy rain is not unusual in Mumbai. In the past too there used to be flooding but water used to drain out within a few hours.

Through the years, the drains have been choked by plastic bags and bottles. How many of our so-called metropolitan cities have waste management systems wherein biodegradable and non-biodegradable matter is segregated?

S. Keshav,
Coimbatore

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