At a public meeting on 7th August 2005 organized by AGNI an NGO working in Mumbai ; eminent citizens made important points as regards the 26th July 2005 flooding and future measures to avoid the same.
 Some points made :
 1.0 - Authorities must be held accountable and
must apologize to Mumbaikars for the 26th July
Man-Made Murders and the Mess.
2.0 - It was not only Mumbai but other cities in
Maharashtra that suffered great damage.
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3.0 - No Co-ordination between different government
agencies as regards relief work created more problems.
4.0 - Relief Material Distribution was happening on
political grounds.
5.0 - Just as the 1992 Harshad Mehta scam led to
the formation of SEBI and the regulation of the financial
markets, hopefully, this crisis would also have a silver
lining in the future.
6.0 - It was just a co-incidence that the 26th July
cloudburst was over Santacruz and hence the Met
Department (which measures rainfall at Colaba
and Santacruz only) measured 944 mm of rain.
It is possible that past years may have even seen
more rain in diffferent parts of the city which the
Met Department was not able to measure.
7.0 - Tinakar Committee Report of 1994 had
described the Governnment of Maharashtra
in 9 words - " For the Builder, By the Builder,
Of the Builder".
8.0 - Tax benefits must not only be given to
the Builders but also to People.
More than
1/3rd of Mumbai's Population lives on Ground Floor of their buildings and
10 lakh (1 Million) families were affected.
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9.0 - The governance of the different institutions
managing the city and it's processes need a drastic
overhaul.
10.0 - The whole of Mumbai is paying the price for
the regularisation and condonement of irregular
policies, practices done in the name of the poor.
11.0 - Disaster Management Plans must be done
from the Ground Level ALM (Advanced Locality Management) upwards and not in
a Top-Down Fashion from Mantralaya (Maharashtra State Government Headquarters).
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