The countdown has begun and the disorganized picture of development is causing great deal of trouble to citizens.

‘Everywhere you find roads dug up either for sewage cleaning or laying paver blocks. The city is pockmarked by its rutted texture,’ says NeliKools, a city based entrepreneur.

‘In the US the cities have a perfect mechanism to deal with such routine jobs,’ Kools who studied Music Business Administration at Los Angeles and has her Music Biz Pro branch at New York said.

‘You won’t find any such problem there that crops up from human negligence as it is in the case of India. Moreover, they plan in advance keeping in mind the population and growth that any US city would witness fifty years from now,’ she says.

The gargantuan city requires mammoth will to administer. The politico-builder-bureaucratic nexus has ruined its beauty as many citizens are feeling its heat.

‘At many places you’ll find mound of soil lying for days after the portion of roads or pavements have been dug out for repair works. This has not only dampened business of shops lying there but is also spreading dusts that triggers breathing trouble like asthma,’ Fazal Khan, a retired state government official, believes.

There are certain streets in the city that always stinks with overflowing gutters. One at Bail Bazar near Kamani at Andheri-Kurla road perennially belches out drain contents with foul smell wafting through the nostrils of passersby.

‘Despite repeated request at L-Ward municipal office at Kurla, the situation remains same and no one has come to repair it,’ says one of the peeved residents of the hapless locality Avdhesh Kumar.

‘The work that is left partially undone is the main villain there and need to be pondered over,’ says SantoshThale, a prominent broadcast journalist.‘The BRIMSTOWAD project that has occupied a third of road at several busy traffic islands triggers traffic snarls during peak hours,’ Arshad, a cabbie laments.