Mumbai`s civic infrastructure is crying for attention
(World News Science)

A British era bridge in city is closed for repairs and the traffic in central Mumbai gets severely impacted. The same story of inadequate infrastructure or substandard facilities gets repeated for pothole riddled roads, overflowing sewage lines, storm water drains and public hospitals overflowing with patients. DNA tried to understand the problem through quantifying as to how civic services are crumbling and bursting at their seams. We have also compared Mumbai's infrastructure with Shanghai's to understand the gaps. Executive Director of Urban Development Research Institute (UDRI) Pankaj Joshi explains the chinks in the armour of the city. CEO of Mumbai First Dr. Neville Mehta in an...