Excerpt from DNA, reported by N Raghuraman on 17th April 2010: Read Full Article
I must thank the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for delaying Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) project endlessly. Of course, they are doing a yeoman’s service by obliging us with a job they are supposed to do. Who are we? Mere taxpayers!
So, if we are paying through our nose, we are not supposed to ask why a World Bank-aided project has not been completed in six years. The Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR) is yet to get completed despite the fact it was started in 1999. Thus connecting the East-West corridor of the city remains a distant dream even now.
For more than six years now, impediments have jinxed the SCLR project, the latest being rehabilitation of occupants on one of the plots, who are unwilling to vacate. Well, is it something we need to worry about? What then is MMRDA worth?
