 Thank you I just have a couple of observations and hearing the excellent panelists and I liked the presentations to made about the future of the city now I think it occurs to me and I'm a writer so my task is to communicate it occurs to me that the eventual plans for what can save Mumbai are known to most people as in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute which seems forever intractable the eventual terms of a settlement are known to most people we need things like a directly elected mayor and some kind of reshifting of the role of the poor trust we need more public transport to disperse some of the population across the harbor the problem is in how to communicate this to the vast majority of the people that live in the city that don't speak our language literally or figuratively they have no voice in what we deliberate in rooms like this but they do have the vote and this is where all our plans or visions or hallucinations come up against the reality of a population which in the slum areas votes at the rate of some 90 percent and a population in precincts like this in South Bombay which stays aloof from politics on the ground we don't vote and by and large we don't participate in the political process and the difference between the world's two great democracies India in the US is that in India the poor vote so in order for any kind of improvement to be made viable we need to communicate our plans to the majority of the people of this city and I don't see that being done the second observation I'd like to make of that unless we fix the problems of the villages we're not going to fix the problems of the cities Rahul Merotra once said to me we have a problem as planners in cities like Mumbai the nicer we make this city the more roads the more buildings we build the more public transport the more the number of people that'll want to come and live here so unless agriculture is made viable again in the countryside unless you can keep them down on the farm I don't see long-term sustained solutions to the problems of cities like Mumbai thank you thank you Narendra Naya director of Bombay first thank you for me personally it's a great char a great satisfaction to participate in this conference here today organa by urban age to dealing with the city of Mumbai Sanjay referred to a vision which is prepared four years ago and I from Bombay first was particularly heavy and in a way to be associated with preparation of that vision it was actually four years ago when we said that the city was decaying everybody realized a vision had to be prepared and a document which is prepared which I think Andy showed on his slide earlier on this so what have we achieved in the last three or four years I think one thing matter of great satisfaction that is a great awareness now with NGOs with the people the citizens that something needs to be done with the city media if you open a newspaper every morning there's a reference to what is happening in city city needs to be done a public-private partnership has been created for the first time and to deal with the governance of the city there is a public you know the citizen action group constituted by the government of Maharashtra where 30 citizens of the city sit with the government and the empowered committee will sit with the government to see how the city's various initiatives could be monitored we have launched a largest I think an urban renewal program they're going to be investment of something like 50 to 60 billion dollars taking place in in the city here in next ten years that I think is a very very important step now what are the constraints I think very what I think the minister referred to that you know one there has to be courage and there has to be boldness and that I think is what we require our city development will not take place without the political leaders supporting it and they have to have courage and boldness that I think is very very important that we need a vision every but a lot of people talk about vision vision is very important we need to have a vision and we do have a vision for the city which Sanjay very point pointed out showed us what the vision is and if all those things happen in the next ten years this this will be a really a world class can be a world class global city now what are the constraints that we've got here we have a land use this it's a port it's a port city it's an island city there's a land use we talk about the port land I will not get into a debate on that that that but I think there could be a win-win situation for the port and the city and lot lot of country a lot of cities around the world lot of not a country the ports were there and they have given part of the land to city London is an example in itself where so it doesn't mean that the port is all right then the transport have been referred to several people now just to we have neglected our transport we are carrying on 21st century on the 19th century 19th century transport structure that was built out there migration is a very big problem you have two to three hundred thousand people coming into the city living in slums why the sling so there needs to be tackled we need to find a way how we can stop that how we can deal with that one of the things the government policies policies adopted a few years ago if you tell let it be known around the world around the country that if you come to Bombay you'll get if you live in a far you will replace him get a free housing so that doesn't that's not going to help out the other biggest thing is the issue here is the planning there has been no proper planning in the city for the development as you so we need to have a proper planning authority proper planning holistic plan like the London plan which is a great end note to end on I think sorry thank you Mr. and I'm sorry to interrupt that one that last point I like to say is because we're looking at a investment of 60 billion dollars we we need to have a proper implementation mechanism in place if that is not our record of implementation has not been very good so thank you the last word was to have been with Sheila Patel but unfortunately she can't be with us so Sundar Burra has stepped in a term very short notice to have the last and I'm sure very brief word thank you thank you I just want to say one thing that I think the direction Mumbai will take will depend crucially upon whether we believe in participatory democracy or not because I think you know what people have been referring to how do you involve the poor how do you listen to the voices of the poor recently for example the government for reasons unclear has said that slum redevelopment projects do not need the consent of the people particularly certain types of large government owned where government managed projects so to us this seems sort of profoundly undemocratic how can you decide what is good for the people without consulting them so I think public debate transparency a kind of discourse model of democracy involved the poor to us our organization which works with the urban poor we feel that this is really a key element thank you thank you for such thank you for a ringing conclusion to this morning's conversation