Once again the focus in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, is on the poor state of infrastructure and the collapse of transport and other systems. Three days of incessant rains broke down most of Mumbai's transport services, like the suburban train network, which carries over a crore commuters every day, the BEST bus service, as well as the swanky monorail service, which is supposed to be a flexible and durable urban mass transport system.

As usual, there are now allegations and counter-allegations about who is responsible for all this mess and how it can be prevented, or at least some improvement that can be managed in the coming years.

Most of the services that broke down are being managed by some government agency or the other, and the question now is whether political leaders from both sides of the political divide are unable to manage civic bodies and modern urban transport services because of too many vested interests and corruption.

It is clear that there is hardly any professionalism in the way Mumbai's garbage waste is managed, drains are cleared ahead of every monsoon, and public transport is managed. It is as........

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