Mumbai Plagued By Infrastructure Woes; Lags Behind Other Indian Cities

"Mumbai was the city where careers were made earlier, so people were ready to struggle everyday in the trains or fight the traffic on roads. Now other cities offer growth opportunity and have better infrastructure, so why would I want to live in Mumbai," Thakur explains to The Economic Times.

The metropolis that had dreams of becoming a financial hub and outshining Shanghai, offers clogged roads, massive areas covered in slums and stuffed local trains.

The Civic authorities accept the fact that there is huge chaos on Mumbai roads and the fuss is quite untamable. "City suffers from serious traffic congestion with the average speed on major city roads being less than 15 km per hour. Due to lack of availability of land it is difficult to expand the road network and local trains are already overloaded, so building of a mass rapid transit system is the need of the hour," Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority said.

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