What's happening inside Navi Mumbai?
It is winter time and the clothing stores (especially the branded ones) in Navi Mumbai grandly announce their 'just out' winter collection. But alas when you step inside these places and browse through racks and racks of badly arranged clothes you'll find nothing fit for winter. The colours are the dreary black, grey and brown, you'll never get the size you want and the less said about the tacky fabric the better. Whatever happened to whites, ivories, pastel blues, greens, pinks, the winter lemon and all-weather lavender and the fruity orange?
Another common sight in the hustle-bustle of urban life is rag pickers. Lack of basic amenities and poverty seems to be forcing the lower stratum of the society to continue to practice child labour. The good side is that these street urchins and little tramps do it for their livelihood instead of getting involved in theft or robbery or worse, taking the macabre road to become drug peddlers or gang members. These poor children step out of their homes early in the morning and get back by dusk with a few rupees to show after a full day's of hard work. This is acceptable in rural India. But what about the cosmopolitan city? Who would look after these hapless children who go about daily to collect crates, wooden planks, paper, plastic and waste materials to feed their hunger and families? One begins wondering whether India really has attained Independence.
Broken streetlights add to residents' woes. Streetlights in most sectors in the city are non-functional. Residents rue that roads in various sectors are not safe during night in the absence of streetlights. While most of the dividing roads are plunged into darkness after sunset, the internal roads are no better. At least the roads leading to the residential areas and hospitals and police stations should have proper streetlight. At many places, hardly any action is being taken by the corporation to make the faulty streetlights work. All efforts of the residents fall on deaf ears. Streetlights in some areas have been non-functional for the past few months. The residents are also facing sanitation problems and stray dog menace. Incidents involving anti-social elements are on the rise in these areas. It's high time NMMC took notice of these matters which are not minor problems at least for those who are affected by these problems.
It is good to see Navi Mumbai cops preparing themselves to send drunk drivers to jail. Mumbai traffic police have started a week-long campaign by roping in restaurant, club and bar owners to prevent revelers from causing trouble. Clearly, the authorities are in no mood to let trouble-makers get away this festive season. This is indeed a great attempt to keep instances of drunk driving under control. Traffic police equipped with breath analysers are common sight today and this has provided relief to pedestrians. Navi Mumbai traffic police should continue this good work.
It is winter time and the clothing stores (especially the branded ones) in Navi Mumbai grandly announce their 'just out' winter collection. But alas when you step inside these places and browse through racks and racks of badly arranged clothes you'll find nothing fit for winter. The colours are the dreary black, grey and brown, you'll never get the size you want and the less said about the tacky fabric the better. Whatever happened to whites, ivories, pastel blues, greens, pinks, the winter lemon and all-weather lavender and the fruity orange?
Another common sight in the hustle-bustle of urban life is rag pickers. Lack of basic amenities and poverty seems to be forcing the lower stratum of the society to continue to practice child labour. The good side is that these street urchins and little tramps do it for their livelihood instead of getting involved in theft or robbery or worse, taking the macabre road to become drug peddlers or gang members. These poor children step out of their homes early in the morning and get back by dusk with a few rupees to show after a full day's of hard work. This is acceptable in rural India. But what about the cosmopolitan city? Who would look after these hapless children who go about daily to collect crates, wooden planks, paper, plastic and waste materials to feed their hunger and families? One begins wondering whether India really has attained Independence.
Broken streetlights add to residents' woes. Streetlights in most sectors in the city are non-functional. Residents rue that roads in various sectors are not safe during night in the absence of streetlights. While most of the dividing roads are plunged into darkness after sunset, the internal roads are no better. At least the roads leading to the residential areas and hospitals and police stations should have proper streetlight. At many places, hardly any action is being taken by the corporation to make the faulty streetlights work. All efforts of the residents fall on deaf ears. Streetlights in some areas have been non-functional for the past few months. The residents are also facing sanitation problems and stray dog menace. Incidents involving anti-social elements are on the rise in these areas. It's high time NMMC took notice of these matters which are not minor problems at least for those who are affected by these problems.
It is good to see Navi Mumbai cops preparing themselves to send drunk drivers to jail. Mumbai traffic police have started a week-long campaign by roping in restaurant, club and bar owners to prevent revelers from causing trouble. Clearly, the authorities are in no mood to let trouble-makers get away this festive season. This is indeed a great attempt to keep instances of drunk driving under control. Traffic police equipped with breath analysers are common sight today and this has provided relief to pedestrians. Navi Mumbai traffic police should continue this good work.
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