Managing Mumbai not only means improving the conditions, but ensuring that the burdens on the city are mitigated

Shri. Devendra Fadnavis

Deputy Chief Minister Government of Maharashtra

For the management of cities, a well-known urban planner says a city is not an accident but a result of coherent visions and aims. So, with coherent vision, we are planning for this maximum city. We acknowledge that Mumbai needs an upgraded urban infrastructure to cater the ever-increasing population. Mumbai's challenges are unique in nature which no other city in the world has ever faced. Mumbai has less than a square metre per capita open public space. Managing Mumbai not only means improving the conditions, but ensuring that the burdens on the city are mitigated. Almost 63% of the area of Mumbai and its suburbs come in the coastal regulatory zone or green belt. As a result, the entire city's housing concerns and infrastructure must be confined to 37% of available land. This is a daunting task. Past efforts for urban infrastructure were not enough to bring out the desired mega transformation in Maharashtra and Mumbai. Since 2014, we got back on track all pending major infrastructure projects in Mumbai and Maharashtra as well. This got further acceleration by honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modiji's Government at the Centre. The projects like the coastal road, the New Mumbai Airport, the mammoth network of metros, the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, and NAINA have facilitated speedy debottlenecking of the project challenges. I am glad to share that some of them are on the verge of completion by 2023. On this backdrop, it is very heartening to know that Construction Times is organising a one-day international conference with a view to focus on the Development Plan of Greater Mumbai. I am happy that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Global Solution Summit 2022 has brought together technology and service providers as well as policy makers and practitioners under one roof. I congratulate the organisers and our MPs, Rahul Shewale and Shrikant Shinde for this unique initiative. I hope that this conference will come out with smart solutions which will help Mumbai to be developed into smart sustainable and safe city at global level. And I hope that the day will not be very far when Mumbai will be listed as one of the cleanest, greenest and liveable and lovable cities of India and the entire globe. I wish the Summit all the success.

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