While Germany is drying in the turbo heat this summer and presenting itself from the best side our guests for the football championship can expect, Bombay is again in monsun-floods. According to this article in BBC Online, it does not seem to be as bad as last where when more than 1,000 people died, but still bad enough to badly cripple public life in the 18 mn cosmopolitan city. Also the airport had to shut its operation temporarily.
Don’t blame the weatherman, but it is fair to ask questions why this city of the millionaires and billionaires is not able to get a decent grip on this sort of infrastructure needed for working drains. My explanation based on my fascincation to foreigners goes like “This city stinks, both from garbage and from money.” And this seems to be the problem. That those with the money do not really care as they will suffer least and this or that way the rain will go aways. From the motivational standpoint, given the well known issues with public governance in India, those with money are not willing to fund expenses where the concrete will not hit the road, but rather feed the pockets of several bureacratic enablers. Or lets rather call the disablers. And to my perception then the good old blame game is in full swing, which goes even up to the judiciary. I have never seen a judge digging a channel well. Have you … ?
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