Mumbai becoming Shanghai!

Mumbai or Shanghai?

HOW DO you transform a city like Mumbai that typifies the worst of all urban problems into a "world class city"? What are the criteria that govern this process? What is the model you choose? What are the systems of governance? How do you work out a realistic plan to find the finance?

These are some of the questions that are under discussion as one more report on dealing with Mumbai's problems does the rounds. Bombay First, an organisation with representatives from Mumbai's corporate world, commissioned McKinsey and Company to prepare a blueprint to transform Mumbai into "a world-class city".

A of delegation 10 MLCs and 9 MLAs from Maharashtra is on a 12-day study tour to East Asia. Between June 25 and July 7, they will visit Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Malaysia. Some of them will be accompanied by members of their family.

The official itinerary is as follows:

• Meeting members of legislative council of Hong Kong

• Meeting officials of China Special Economic Zone Research Centre

• Meeting civic officials in Shanghai and Beijing, China

• Meeting CPA counterparts in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Will this study tour help them to take the 'Mumbai Transformation Project' ahead?

To know more about this project, please go through the following presentation:

http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/Sanjay Ubale.ppt