Long jams, pedestrians and motorists stranded; local trains running behind schedules – these are all symptomatic of water logging in Mumbai during monsoon.

Civic body should have been blamed for this, but ironically the BMC holds the two major public sectors – Railways and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) responsible for the sin – water logging.

Therefore, the civic agency has decided to send missives to other bodies to ensure city remains immune from flood and other monsoon-triggered trouble from next year.

The BMC has asserted that they completed all their work before May 31, so that there would be no problem caused due to water logging. The agency has criticised the Railways for not desilting their drains under the tracks and the MMRDA, for not completing building and construction work on time. 

As for Kherwadi junction, the water logging is due to MMRDA’s ongoing work on the Kherwadi flyover. The BMC is soon planning to send missive to the MMRDA to expedite the work.

 “We will prepare a monsoon blueprint, for which we require assistance from all the stakeholders. We will ask them to arrive at solutions to tackle chronic water logging in the city,” a senior civic official said.

Railways too, foresee solutions to these perennial problems in synergized effort. “Our work on the drains is still underway. We will certainly have a dialogue with the civic agency to see if there is a solution in sight for these problems.”