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| Arati Tare
12/9/2007 |
| I would like to ask a small question to everyone on this form as well as the editors.....Do we love our city ????? or is it that we only earn in and from this city by various means. What is that we are giving back?.........
why are decisons delayed?
why is corruption still exisiting?
why do people only thnk about them being clean and not the city?
Why don't all govt. officials take initiative to speed up all the processes?
Why do people travel one person per car when there are overflowing buses on the road?
Why can't each developer take up social responsibility to providing housing and spend 0.01% of their profits for improvement of the city ?
Why don't people pay tax and sales tax?
As an individuals are we responsible citizens?? |
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| GEORGE
12/9/2007 |
| POLITICIAN:
POINTS TO PONDER:
1. WHY AM I ELECTED TO PUBLIC SERVICE?
2. WHAT IS MY QUALIFICATION?
3. WHAT IS MY EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE TO SERVE THE COUNTRY?
4. WHAT ARE MY PROMISES TO THE NATION?
5. WHAT ARE MY PROJECTS?
6. DID I ACCOMPISH AND WHAT WAS MY PERFORMANCE?
7. SHOULD I BE ELECTED AGAIN OR CREATE JUNGLE RAJ?
8. AM I HONEST AND SINCERE TO MY COUNTRY FELLOWMEN?
9. CAN I UPLIFT THE POOR AND THE WEAK AND BRING LIGHT TO THEM?
10. AND FINALLY IS THERE LAW AND JUSTICE IN OUR LAND? |
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| satish sharma
12/9/2007 |
| It is a shame that Mumbai is one of the dirtest cities in the world. All pavementdewellers/vendors should be forcibly removed from the road, becuase of them people cannot walk and many accidents are taking place because of these encroachments. It is wrong to say that their livelihod will get lost, it is a wrong notion, becasue of them so many people are getting killed on the road. All slums should also be removed. Sweepers should be taken only on contract basis & it should be given to private companies like all over the world. |
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| Safra
12/8/2007 |
| Stop comparing Mumbai and Shanghai. You do not want people to come up with statements like 'Mumbaied' means: "To obtain by unscrupulous means like drugs and alcohol/to induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force. Considering the big securities scams and stealing of public money by the big businesshouses who became rich by paying off bureaucrats and politicians, people might comeup with statements like: "We were Mumbaied into buying worthless securities".
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| TRUE VOICE
12/8/2007 |
| Yes, I am ready to pay more .For QUALITY, POLLUTION FREE & SECURED MUMBAI. Give me that.
Mumbai-- A Huge Revenue Generation ~~60% of Indian Economy-- City for INDIA..Is it a Joke? No it is a fact.
So Mumbai needs definitely a special treatment. People call it a "DREAM CITY".
Will it ever be possible to be a real DREAMLAND?
First of all WHETHER WE WANT THIS TO HAPPEN OR NOT!!!
Is it that difficult for us to resist our greediness to CONSUME THE FUNDS, meant for the Development of the CITY?
Does the Funding an obstacle for the development of this CITY (really need of QUALITY infrastructures to be in place)?
Is it very difficult for things to get transformed from the PEN N PAPER to the Implementation?
Is it very difficult & expensive to plant trees & maintain that in & around Mumbai?
Does it take that huge amount of knowledge for a qualified Architect/ Engineers/Bureaucrats/Politicians to plan & beautify an area with the projection of 50 years?
Why don't the private sectors be promoted & encouraged by the State Govt. of Maharashtra & Govt. of India to do development works in the areas where they are located?
CLARITY, TRANSPERANCY & A DEDICATION TO ACHIEVE QUALITY TARGET, these little things are the essence of the PRESENT AUTHORITIES who have shouldered & taken the responsibility to a give a NEW DIMENSION to our Mumbai. This responsibility really lies with you. Please be modest enough to achieve it.
Sincerely,
TRUE VOICE
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| Anubhav Gupta
12/8/2007 |
| We should pay more for a better Mumbai - not only for Mumbai but also for our nation. But our money should be used through right hand and in the right way. I think development rate in Mumbai is very slow. For example, the western exp. way still not completed, many small flyovers are not complete from a many year like Dindosi, Thakur Complex(kandivali) flyover and many more. So how can we understand that Mumbai will be like Shanghai. We have manpower and engineering so why compare us with Shanghai - Can we not make Mumbai in own way?? |
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| Vic
12/8/2007 |
| Is Mumbai going to get famously Shanghied?
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
shanghai
SYLLABICATION: shang·hai
PRONUNCIATION: shng-h, shngh
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: shang·haied, shang·hai·ing, shang·hais
1. To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him. 2. To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force: We were shanghaied into buying worthless securities.
ETYMOLOGY: After Shanghai1, from the former custom of kidnapping sailors to man ships going to China.
OTHER FORMS: shang·haier —NOUN |
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| Abbas
12/8/2007 |
| We read reports that BMC or Maharashtra Government spend 100 crores or more on repair of drainage or roads every year. The question is not how much money is spent. The question is how much work has been done. All 100 crores can go to politicians, burocreats and contractor's pockets without any work. |
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| vishal
12/7/2007 |
| Dear sirs
Your initiative is a good one and it should help open the eyes of these ministers who keep spending money on repairs aimlessly
however I believe changes must be brought in our city from the grass root level. Probably its too late to start the work there is barely any town planning here the road works are shoddy and the BMC couldn't be more ignorant than this. |
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| srikanth vijayan
12/7/2007 |
| If ever there is a symbol of the sloth, inefficiency and corruption of the present administration, it has to be the much touted and hugely delayed World Bank assisted JVLR project!!! This is a project that is at a standstill for many years and if the MMRDA says otherwise, it is lying!! On any given day in the past two months since the rains have stopped, I have seen probably 10 people pottering around supposedly doing work on this mega project.I guess a large part of the blame also lies with us citizens, who put up with infrastructure, that in any other part of the globe- with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa- is an abomination!! If the students of IIM(B) can come out onto the roads to protest poor infrastucture, if the people of Delhi can petition the SC on every issue including Blueline buses, and Calcutta can riot over Nandigram, what on earth is preventing the students and faculty of IIT Powai and the residents of plush Hiranandani Gardens, from coming out onto the roads ( or what is left of it!) to protest the criminal neglect and inefficiency of the MMRDA !!! What is even more shocking is the recent Bitumen- mastic road work that has been taken up by the MMRDA, along a perfectly unspoilt strecth of the Eastern Express Highway!! In a city that is dying of pollution, a government agency is burning kilos of firewood (for gods sake) to melt bitumen to repair a perfectly good road!!! And this when nothing is being done to repair huge craters on the entire stretch between Vikhroli and L&T Powai!!! Will HT please please take up this with who ever is in charge!! I am a reader of TOI and happened to be looking for a way to highlight this issue, when I came across this site. HT has helped Delhi in many many ways. Please help this city too!! |
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