Heavy rains and Mumbai is sinking again. But get this clear -- Mumbai is sinking anyway, rain or no rain. Four-storey buildings are being converted into 22-storey buildings. Hundreds of thousands slum dwellers who were living on ground level are being housed in 22-storied SRA building. On the land vacated by slum dwellers, 58-storied building are sprouting -- all in my small neighbourhood of Orlem. The same is taking place, on a larger scale all over Mumbai. Nobody has given a thought to the support of this phenomenal infrastructural growth ...water, transport, open spaces etc. Mumbai is sinking under the weight of it's own greed and ill-planned infrastructure. The city will choke to a slow death. Goa must learn from Mumbai's mistakes. Villages must ban construction of buildings beyond 3 storeys.
