With at least three occasions of chronic flooding across the city this monsoon, the city police have now have planned to buy their own inflatable boats to rescue people in case of emergencies. The police have also decided to set up a special squad that will solve transport woes of office-goers and students at reasonable fares. The execution might happen from next year onwards.

Heavy downpours had brought rail and road traffic to a halt in the past two months. The Mithi river overflowed, with its water flowing back into the city and on railway tracks around the Kurla area. The BMC had evacuated residents staying near the banks (Kranti Nagar etc). People stranded on the streets became victims of surge pricing and rejections by cab and auto-rickshaw drivers. App-driven cabs too resorted to exorbitant pricing.