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Mumbai, September 25: Filling a pothole. Clearing an encroachment. Water all day long. You will be promised all this as Mumbai’s great election jamboree rolls along. You will—usually—see those promises fail. But with a little-known law, YOU can take charge. In isolated but remarkable cases, Mumbai’s citizens have shown how the government can be made to respond to you.
In Bandra, a single woman got a leaking drainage pipe fixed. An IIT grad got an entire police department to crack down on political interference in transfers. In Mumbra, a builder stopped illegal garbage dumping.
We’ll arm you with the intricacies of the law. We’ll show you how to deal with obdurate babus. We’ll bring you tales—some shocking, infuriating, but ultimately inspirational—stories of people who used the law and won.
Starting tomorrow, read it all this week in Newsline. |