A survey conducted by DNA-iMrs points that it is nothing but better roads that the city expects most from its newly elected corporators.
Urbs primus in Indis, was Mumbai’s old line. The BMC website wants the city to be urbs primus in Orbis. That’s the world. But Mumbai has a long way to go. We launch Agenda Mumbai: Fix our city with a DNA-IMRS poll, where the people of Mumbai set tasks for our new corporators. Ladies and gentlemen, the party is over. Time to get to work
The party is over and the acid test just begins. Not just for the Shiv Sena-BJP combine, but even for the civic officials as well. A survey conducted by DNA-iMrs points that it is nothing but better roads that the city expects most from its newly elected corporators. In fact, men and women, cutting across all segments of society (85 per cent), said quality roads is their first priority.
Good medical services at municipal hospitals is the next on the demand list. Poor condition, along with the lack of medicines in civic hospitals, was exposed in the recent serial train blasts and no wonder that 79 per cent of men and women sought immediate upgradation of civic hospitals.
Some 76 per cent women and 79 per cent men want corporators to improve garbage collection even as the proposed overhaul of the solid waste management has been promised by the administration.
Union wrangles, bureaucracy aside, people want results. Come monsoon, 72 per cent of men and 74 per cent of women wanted the administration to maintain cleanliness levels. Seventy-five percent of women and 76 per cent men wanted the civic body to clean drains and sewage lines before the monsoon as a preventive measure.
Post-celebrations, the BJP-SS combine has the task of ensuring that its promise of 24-hour water supply is fulfilled as 73 per cent of women and 69 per cent of men are rooting for it. Demanding more attention for the northern parts of city, 75 per cent of both men and women in the survey demanded clean water supply for suburbs as their priority.
Despite technological upgradation, citizens want fast responses from the disaster management cell of the BMC (68 per cent men and 70 per cent women). The survey also put the onus on civic officials rather than politicians: 60 per cent women and 65 per cent men want the red-tapism in the civic body to vanish if Mumbai aspires to become a world-class city. More transparency is expected from big bosses. Here again, 58 per cent men and 62 per cent women also want to know how the funds are utilised and want greater scrutiny.
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