in 2008,
Mumbai's population is 13 millions ( total land area including suburbs approx. 600 SQ Km)
Australia's population is 21 millions (total land area 7,617,930 SQ Km)
So there is still enough scope for Mumbai's infrastructure and Municipal Corporation to compete with Australia's infrastructure!!!
So lets go to Mumbai, we have the right to do it!!!
4 comments:
Are you making the point that filled-to-capacity Bombay/Mumbai cannot take any more migrants or are you suggesting that only marathi manoos migrants are henceforth welcome?
Therein lies the difference!
I thought I was quite clear! Anyway I must mention that irrespective of where one has come from (nagpur or nagaland), effect of their coming to mumbai will just be the same.... strained infrastructure!
Even if I am marathi, staying away from my home in mumbai for last 3.5 years, whenever I visit my own home, I don't find some dedicated space for me there now!!! I have to 'adjust' there for short holiday time! If this is the situation of my home there, it's not difficult to imagine what will happen if I decide to go and settle there now! That should say it all clearly now...
Why talk about just Mumbai?
I am a migrant in Gujarat, my parents in Ghaziabad and my sister in Gurgaon, and all of these places are exploding with people. Migration is bound to happen in every singly city everywhere, maybe less in smaller towns...
What about Bangalore(where incidentally most of my friends work right now, all of them migrants)? Its a valid aspiration, but maybe not so easily achievable. Everyone is a migrant in some way...or maybe our forefathers. Or perhaps we need to adopt a China like system (which is now changed I guess) where they would just not allow people to come from rural areas into cities.
I don't know what is right. Everyone thinks differently on this. And whose right is actually right? A Mumbaikar's 'right' or maybe an Indian's 'right'?
Sid, I agree that everyone aspires to migrate to some 'desirable' place. But what if this aspiration is easily achievable in a particular place?
Though i don't agree with your china rule, it reminds me of another one in India (not in detail) that those pursueing degree in Medicine, are supposed to serve rural people as fulfillment of requirement for their degree. Why only doctors? There can be similar rules for other professions also to see that the development of India happens quite uniformally. There is something beyond having and using "rights", may be social awareness or social responsibility or morality or something else which is more imporant. (i will give u one good example in person sometime)
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