Rights and Wrongs (Demolitions in Mumbai)

Rohit Shinkre est architecte indépendant et enseigant à l’Académie d’architecture de Mumbai.

par Rohit SHINKRE le 8 April 2005

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rights and wrongs

There is underway for the past few weeks in Mumbai a massive demolition drive by the BMC (Brihan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation) targeting illegal encroachments; slums but also and for a change well established restaurants, hotels etc. It has been very long since anything like this has actually taken place without intervention from the ‘usual suspects’; namely the NGO’s, who need issues to survive and make themselves noticed and the vote hunters who need the numbers wherever and however they come from... For some reason even the routinely misappropriated court orders has not been able to stay the drive, which surprising has the state government backing. The politicians, ruling and opposition are divided on the issue- torn between the shimmering Shanghai syndrome and the vote bank equation. The NGO’s and other active representatives of the civil society, I hope, are pondering over an effective counter-strategy.

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