‘War room’ swings into action

Mumbai Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Thursday held the first meeting of the “war room”, in which he reviewed the city’s major infrastructure projects.
The meeting of the heads of agencies implementing the projects was convened at Sahyadri Guest House in the evening, in which Chavan reviewed the status of the Mumbai Trans-Harbour link, Navi Mumbai airport, Metro, monorail, modernisation of Mumbai airport, BRIMSTOWAD and Bandra-Worli sea link extension. He suggested that reports should be submitted on these projects every three months.BMC commissioner Swadheen Kshatriya, Mumbai Transformation Support Unit project manager UPS Madan, members of Bombay First and senior government officials attended the meeting. “Since it was the first meeting, it was a quick review. Subsequent meetings will discuss the projects in detail and help clear bottlenecks,” Madan said.