Friction between the tenant and the landlord often result in long-drawn out legal battles. A new law is meant to govern the tenant-landlord equation through effective and faster dispute resolution.
Heavy flooding has now created new problems for the city in unfamiliar ways. Suddenly, many parts of Mumbai found their water supply disrupted. Climate change is a huge cause.
Mumbai has less than one tree for four persons. The city is set to lose 40,000 more trees to make way for various large infrastructure projects. There are only meager efforts to save them.
As India is blamed globally for its mismanagement of the pandemic, it is worth looking into how the country’s most populous city managed to pull COVID19 numbers down significantly. Is the model replicable?
The business community in Mumbai was barely recovering from the impact of the earlier lockdown and it cannot afford to go in for complete lockdown yet again.
In April 2020, the sudden closure of rail services and transport created a huge migration crisis. A simple tweak in state attitude and policy has made a big difference this time.
