Watch: Mumbai Monsoon Chaos: Aaditya Thackeray on BMC Crisis & Metro Failures
With an annual budget of over Rs 74,000 Crore, the BMC is the richest municipal corporation in the country. But pending municipal elections, it is being governed by an administrator for the last three years. No public representatives, no accountability. In these three years, the Fds have dipped by Rs 10,000 Crore, from Rs 92,000 Crore to Rs 82,000 Crore. The current liabilities stand at a record high of nearly Rs 2 Lakh Crore.
While all major cities across the world face issues with heavy rainfall, what Mumbai saw this time was a breakdown of systems which are supposed to stand up to much worse. Roads caved in though the corporation spends crores on their upkeep every year. The newly opened Aqualine of the Mumbai Metro, built at a cost of Rs 37,000 Crore, couldn't keep up with the first spell of monsoon either.
In a dug up city, hospitals were flooded, newer acute flooding spots emerged. Even the State Secretariat saw water logging. Is this due to the breakdown of democratic processes? To talk about all this and more - from the Mumbai floods and the erosion of democratic processes, to the BJP's allegations, and from Adani corporation to the Bullet train project – We have with us Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray.
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