case of political competitionshewale there is no such competition my party represents the voice of the public in the coastal road project all rules have been followed and the protesting parties have been heardsubodh kumar former bmc commissioner there are ways to plan projects to reduce environmental damage metroiii can be extended so that the car shed is not at aarey the argument that if the car shed is not in aarey the metro cannot be built is silly if the project is extended it will cost an additional rs 1000 crore which can be arranged but if aarey is destroyed you cannot have another one maharashtra is the only state which is yet to notify its wetlands despite repeated reminders why havent they done it because today in the absence of protection it is easy to be filled and constructed uponamin patel congress mla the coastal road is required to ease traffic in the city there is also a need to implement umta the unified metropolitan transport authority all mass transit projects should be linked with each other for better lastmile connectivity today no agency is communicating with the otherashish shelar interrupting to say that no agency is communicating with each other is not true there is a plan to connect metro lines to each other and also plans to bring all transport routes on one travelling cardtoi all these projects the government plans for the city are without consulting citizens in some states wardlevel committees have been set up to allow citizens to participate in decisionmaking can we not replicate this in mumbainayana kathpalia trustee ngo nagar the 74th amendment which talks about devolution of powers is not implemented in the state the mumbai dp2034 is riddled with flaws which allow for all the wrong things to be done many nodevelopment zones have been changed to special development zones making it easier for projects to come up in environmentsensitive areasashish shelar i support the implementation of the nagar raj bill to allow for ward level committees with citizens and we will put it on our agendaamin patel ward level committees have to have decisionmaking powers if they are to be involved they have to be empoweredopen spacestoi in case of open spaces which are given out for maintenance to individuals and trusts citizens believe that it sometimes becomes a landgrabbing exercise as access gets restricted so do you think that there is a policy problemsubodh kumar what is important as far as open spaces are concerned is whats accessible to the common man there are many figures floating around but if you look at the extent of open land accessible it is barely a few square metres per person for instance rgs recreational grounds and pgs playgrounds many of these are encumbered by slums the political class needs to work towards doubling accessible open space a lot of open spaces have slums in every dp they are placed under the open space category of land which has