Mumbai MPs group up in New Delhi to demand acceleration of Mumbai’s infrastructure projects
The newly-elected MPs from Mumbai have come together in New Delhi to demand the acceleration of work on delays-hit infrastructure projects in the maximum city.
Mumbai MPs are camp in New Delhi essentially to draw attention to the fact that requisite environment clearances have not been given to over half-a-dozen infrastructure projects in Mumbai. Moreover, the crucial Navi Mumbai airport project is also on the radar of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance.
Some of the vital infrastructure projects in Mumbai which have been stuck for want of clearances include the projects involving the deepening the Mithi river; clearing the redevelopment of the Dharavi slums; and road-widening projects which would require the cutting down of mangroves.
The grouping up of Mumbai MPs in New Delhi is a move which is apparently rooted in the fact that newly-elected MPs have extended support to the Mumbai government, so as to make sure that clearances for infrastructure projects are not stuck with officials in New Delhi.
Highlighting the delays-ridden projects, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray told the other MPs that the infrastructure projects which have been stuck for quite some time now are extremely important for Mumbai’s development; and added that these projects should be “cleared expeditiously.”
Thackeray also said that inside sources had apprised him that the reasons for the slow pace of the mentioned projects is that “Government officials have been sitting on these files for years.”
Source – The Tribune
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