December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
17h 25m
English
Aromar Revi
Some of these (flood concentration areas in Mumbai1) have a tendency to disrupt traffic and paralyse city life. A number of steps such as de-silting of drainage and clearing of nallahs are taken up by Brihan Mumbai Corporation (BMC) and Railways to avoid such flooding. However, a combination of heavy precipitation and high tide may make such flooding unavoidable.
—Mumbai Disaster Management Plan, Government of Maharashtra, 1999.
Business as usual, irrespective of drought, plague, famine or riot has been Mumbai's hallmark through the great cotton boom of the mid-nineteenth century to becoming one of the great megacities of the early twenty-first ...
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