The civic body's project to build missing road links across the city is highly commendable, and at the same time draws one's attention to rampant encroachment in the already congested financial hub of India. Encroachment has proved to be a major hurdle in the progress or even initiation of any development project.

A story on the front page of this paper stated that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will on priority construct eight of the 70 missing road links in the city, besides the ongoing projects of flyovers and roads. As BMC charts a plan to ascertain the amount of land that needs to be acquired for the project, there are certain places where they need to reclaim the encroached plots.