Burj khalifa....the 800 metres, world tallest building was innaugrated !
The worlds tallest building now stands in Dubai....hey, isn't this the same city which faced a real estate crisis just a few months back...yes indeed!
It probably could be because most of the property was sold out before he crisis and that too to the speculators of the market who had been anticipating price rise...Looks like the tallest building in the world will have to remain empty for some time...
In the meanwhile, I am wondering whats the situation back here in our own country??
To my shock and awe a quick google search told me that the tallest structure in Mumbai is none other than...can u imagine??
Its the Doordarshan tower!! standing tall at 300 meters!!
Of course there are a lot of plans on paper for highrise buildings in Mumbai, but only God knows when the will materialize!! The great Bandra-Worli sealink, which should have been constructed atleast a decade ago, was somehow innaugrated last year! Now is the turn of Mumbai metro...wonder when this construction will be completed...
I am not blaming the engineers in India for this(one reason being I am an engineer myself!)...I very well know that engineers and architects have hardly anything to do with this delay...It is the planning system! There is no organised effort which goes into designing a city...there is no vision...foresight...the real problem being there are no leaders with this vision!
Even the poor Municipal corporation is kept occupied with cleaning the citygarbage, chowpatty and the Mithi river! when will it get time to remove encroachments and build highrise buildings??By the way the removal of encroachment actually falls under the jurisdiction of the Municipal corporation and not MNS!!!
Even in my personal case, since 2 years I am awaiting our 18 storey tower to be built...it will atleast take 2 more years now!!...half of the time being wasted in legal matters with tenents not ready to leave. Believe me, the files seem heavier than the blocks to move!
Roti,Kapda aur makaan being the 3 basic needs of man...the prices of all three have gone sky rocketing...how to survive now is the big question! At these difficult times, it is important not to loose what you have in your hand, not to loose hope...keep walking the distance hoping that someday we will get there where we intend to be...
who knows one day even the last flat on the 169th floor of the Burj would be affordable!!
This is fact which most of the ppl live with...read newspapers and get charged up for some time and then again the routine starts....hope this blog is read by some authority person and hope he does make a huge change in the planning systems...You are right...lets hope....
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