The government of Maharashtra and in particular the local government of Mumbai city is waiting for another disaster to happen before it really wakes up to take some concrete decisions.
Check this Disaster Management Plan http://mdmu.maharashtra.gov.in/pages/Mumbai/mumbaiplanShow.php to find out why the plan is just a lot of fluff and no solution.
There is no mention as to what people should do in the event of another 26th July 2005 happens to Mumbai again (believe me it is more likely to happen again and again).
The reason why Mumbai is a disaster waiting to happen is that the unholy nexus of politicians, builders and underworld have come together to create a concrete jungle that has usurped all available spaces and flouted all laws of planned development.
If you read the DMP you will find that the authorities are planning and depending on a working electricity and telephone network, while each one of us knows how these two basic pillars of disaster management collapsed during the deluge of Mumbai.
There is no mention of satellite phones, emergency power generation, storage of emergency food stock, both raw and prepared ready for distribution. But then you really can not blame the people here what with a nation as big as America failing in the wake of Katrina!
Dear City Fathers,
Please read and study the Katrina disaster and learn your lessons from there. Call for the program broadcast by National Geographic to find out why America Failed in Handling Katrina. Do it now, there is no time left and modify the disaster management plan accordingly.
This is all that I can hope and pray for.
Meanwhile here are some important people who may help bail you out
Shri. K. S. Vatsa
Secretary Relief & Rehabilitation,
502, Main Building,
Mantralya
Mumbai - 400 032
INDIA
Tel. No. - +91 022 22025274
Email - sec_r&r@maharashtra.gov.in
Maharashtra Disaster Management Unit
Earthquake Rehabilitation Cell,
14th Floor,
New Administrative Building,
Mumbai - 400 032
INDIA
Tel. No. - +91 022 22831984.
Flood Infoline
Tel. No. - +91 022 22040800
- +91 022 22040804
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