'Thane City messed up by poor governance'

Thane City, home to 72 per cent 'illegal' structures - slums, buildings - is a 'poster' of poor governance and all ills that it triggers, Times of India reported today.

Politicians get the blame - rightly so - and the city, a now a 'bedroom' for others, is 'automobile-dependent' due to poor planning and plots meant for public benefit have been gobbled up even as the city administration remains 'ineffective".

And how even a year after the elections to the Thane Municipal Corporation, the political parties - Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena, Bharatiya Janata Party, and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena keep playing politics, keep visiting the courts and leave the city's issues unattended is clear from this report in the Maharashtra Times.