Mumbai: Can most Mumbai be saved so as not to be submerged in 2050? With an intergovernmental panel about the Climate Change Report (IPCC) concerning a ring alarm bell increase, experts asked BMC to revisit the City Development Plan – 2034 to review infrastructure expansion along the coast.
Certain parts of the plan are still in the process resolved.
“If the city will go below 3 night water by 2050, the development plan must be reviewed from the hydrological point and improvement of the Brimstowad Storm Water Drain project,” said Pankaj Joshi, Architect, and Managing Director of the Central Urban Mumbai (City Planning and Design Tank Design) .
TimesviewMumbai is mostly struggling against a number of climate factors that are out of control.
The only choice before it is to control the course and development speed within its limits.
The problem with political decision making and bureaucracy is that it is focused on the near future.
Encouraging elections and lack of administrator accountability and selected representatives to encourage their direct agenda at the expense of long-term goals.
We have answers, but do we have the desire to save the city for future generations? Joshi said the city had witnessed the events of extreme rainfall, and because the frequency increased, it was a low roadside sewer and open space that would be very important in saving Mumbai from being below.
BMC also needs to review what is allowed to be placed in the basement where there is not only car parking but a diesel generator, waste treatment plant, etc., he said.
Based on published studies, the net sea level rose Mumbai estimated 0.74 mm per year.
Post the flood in July 2005, the Chitale Committee has recommended an increase in the ditch debit capacity of 25mm / hour to 50mm / hour.
But this is still not fully achieved.
No more than 30% of waterways have been reengineered to increase capacity.
This backlog must burden the administrator’s mind, especially after the terrible warning BMC Chahal Chahal at the launch of the Action Action Action website last week that in 2050, 80% of Nariman Point and Mantralaya and around 70% of A, B, C, D Civil Ward will submerged due to sea level rise.
For compound things, this city has a large ticket infrastructure project that is ongoing or proposed along the coast.
The most significant is the coastline, Metro Line 3 Underground 3, 300 Acre Central Park in Nariman Point, and Revamp and Renoveding from Lands Trust Port Mumbai.
Professor of Kapil Gupta, the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, who is in the review team for the IPCC chapter on sea level rise, said, “The Civic’s Important Body conducts several modeling studies to understand how much sea level increases will occur every five years and where immersion will happen, whether the underground metro will flood.
It must involve institutions such as the National Center for India for marine information studies, the National Oceanographic Institute who conducted such studies.
“Gupta which is also part of the BMC flood guidelines committee said the waterways must be reviewed to improve The intensity of rainfall in short duration.
Regarding 300 hectares of Central Park in Nariman Point, Joshi said ideally the reclamation should be avoided and given that the majority of the population now lives at the northern tip of BMC must assess if needed.
The Debi Goenka environment says even a small problem toilet is reserved because the increase in sea level will make the most of the buildings along the beach that can be inhabited.
Joshi said New York, London, Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo had begun to relax infrastructure to rise in sea level.
Open spaces are used as Ponds and Mumbai, he said, need to describe urgently.
“The building needs to be redesigned so that there is a decent area of three-level moves.
In Hong Kong, they work on interconnected buildings at one and two levels so that if your submerged path can still be mobile,” he said.
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