At 17,000 a day, ridership is a far cry from glossy estimates of 1.5 lakhs; government not keen on expanding monorail network after failure of the first line.
Mumbai is the world’s 2nd most congested city, making it lose its sheen as India’s financial capital. State govt’s plans to expand it have gone nowhere.
Top NDMC official says religious structures are a dicey matter, but the law comes first; even agencies in Mumbai chalk out a plan to relocate such structures.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Dekhne mein khilona lagti hai. The daily ridership of 17,000 is to be seen in the backdrop of the city’s reliable workhorse, the local train which carries upto 4,000 passengers during peak hours, against a designed capacity of 1,400. MMRDA’s grotesque looking elevated walkways, also its scheme for rental housing, have proved to be duds. It was meant to be a planning, not an executing, agency.
Dekhne mein khilona lagti hai. The daily ridership of 17,000 is to be seen in the backdrop of the city’s reliable workhorse, the local train which carries upto 4,000 passengers during peak hours, against a designed capacity of 1,400. MMRDA’s grotesque looking elevated walkways, also its scheme for rental housing, have proved to be duds. It was meant to be a planning, not an executing, agency.