
Why Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru infrastructure is in tatters
Time to save big cities
Vivek Shukla
Barely two months before New Delhi has to host a prestigious G-20 summit that would be attended by heads of states of 20 most powerful nations of the world, the national capital is in tatters due to flooding in river Yamuna and heavy rains. If the flood waters have entered the houses of rich and poor, the water logging across the capital has exposed the callous attitude of all those who are supposed to look after the civic affairs of the city.
Imagine the flood waters of Yamuna have entered the plush houses of the rich and famous in the Civil Lines area. This place is at a shouting distance from the official residence of Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Even the Managing Director of famous Sadhna TV Rakesh Gupta and his family was ...