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Speak up Mumbai: What do you think should be BMC’s New Year resolution?

While some Mumbaikars believe ensuring pothole-free roads should top civic body’s agenda, others stress need for reduced fire mishaps, more transparency

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From ensuring proper sewage disposal to curbing fire mishaps and water woes, BMC has much work to do
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From arranging for sufficient potable water to ensuring smooth roads, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has the responsibility of catering to the over 1.8 crore population of Mumbai. The civic body that works round the clock has around 1.05 lakh employees who work in shifts.

With an annual budget over Rs 27,000 crore, the BMC is tasked with cleaning over 2,700 km road every day. The city generates around 7,200 metric tonne of garbage per day, which again is collected from 24 civic administrative wards and dumped at either of the two dumping grounds in the city limits. 

Additionally, there has been growing pressure from residents to ensure supply of adequate water, especially during the summers. The BMC supplies around 3,750 million litre a day (MLD) water per day.

Around 2,190 MLD sewage is generated in the city and the civic body has to dispose it of a manner that minimum damage is done to the environment. The BMC has around 229 major hospitals and dispensaries where over 11 lakh patients come for treatment every year. 

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BMC’s new year resolution should be to ensure transparency and improve their website to enable citizens to seek their facility more easily. They should have work orders and tenders uploaded on the website. They should implement inspection circulars in letter and spirit to provide all necessary documents to citizens. If that is done, it will be good for accountability. They should also see to it that licenses can be renewed through any browser. Every renewal should have a tutorial on the website such as in the case of the IRCTC.
Bhaskar Prabhu, Dadar

 Mumbai is grappling with the issue of open spaces and parking issues. BMC’s new year resolution should be to ensure Mumbai has enough open spaces, green cover and parking available. With more and more infrastructure coming up, all these three aspects have suffered. It is time BMC deals with these issues on priority and makes the city more livable. 
Ram Prakash, Santacruz resident

 Whenever I enter Mumbai, especially after paying the toll, one thing that I always feel is that BMC should seriously work on is the roads. Along all the roads including the arterial roads and even the main roads in its jurisdiction, cleanliness is a major concern. The slums in the city need attention; a lot of developmental owrk needs to be done in those areas. I hope in the new year, the BMC focuses on doing the work and completing them. 
Tanzil Thakur, Mumbra resident 

I think the only New year resolution that BMC must take for 2019 is that they would be honest and faithful towards their duties. Once they decide to be honest and faithful to their work all the problems of Mumbaikars will automatically be taken care of. We will have very good roads, proper solid waste management as well as other services. BMC has several well educated engineers and top officials and they even know the work that they should be doing, the only issue is that they are not honest towards Mumbai nor its cause.
James John, Andheri resident 

First of all, the civic body needs to focus on the three basics — road, water, and fire safety. Lacunae in the provision of these basics have left the taxpayers a worried lot. If roads are dug for work, the BMC must ensure deadlines are met in filling them up. Water scarcity should be tackled with appropriate measures and not just by informing locals about water cuts. Effective implementation of fire safety measures needs to see more action. 
Digant Desai, Charni Road

The BMC’s new year resolution should be to keep the city safe from fire incidents by monitoring if the rules and regulations are being implemented by hotels and buildings. I hope, in the coming year coming year, BMC conducts surprise inspection at various hotels, restaurants, and commercial and residential complexes, to see if fire safety rules are being adhered to. Citizens of all age group must be taught how to save themselves and others during such accidents until help reaches them. 
Smita Bhingarde, Jogeshwari

BMC’s new year resolutions should be to ensure there are minimum potholes in the city this monsoon. It has to ensure the cleaning of rivers and nullahs is done in advance to avoid the usual last moment work done in haste. We need to understand that crores of rupees is spent on these works annually. It also needs to ensure the mess of garbage management is solved and that water shortage is tackled.  
Jenifer Almeida, Borivali

EXPERT SPEAK

Garbage free, pollution free and faster Mumbai is our resolution. We are continuously working on various areas to provide best service to Mumbaikars. We are working on long-term plans to increase water supply in the city. This year we are planning to supply sufficient water in the summer also. We must admire the Mumbai Fire Brigade for the great job it does. We will continue to take care of open spaces, broad-roads, and parking issues in development plans. Mega projects will be executed in the coming year, such as the Rs 12,700 crore Coastal Road. 
Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, Mayor

I will ensure that the city will have better roads and there will be no potholes. It is the civic body’s responsibility to provide clean and pure water to residents. The garbage problem needs to solved by taking residents into confidence. The 26 open spaces still lying with private NGOs should be taken back. I will also ensure that other political parties clear their stand on open spaces this new year. 
Ravi Raja, Leader of Opposition, BMC

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