For those not blessed with fat salaries, living in Mumbai increasingly means living on the periphery of the city. One of the world’s 10 most costliest cities to live in, residents of the city desperately need better transportaion systems and connectivity to travel from far flung places into town.

Always a little late to wake up, the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has however, finally come up with a cracker of a proposal to develop rail connectivity between the city’s far flung areas such as Panvel, Kalwa, Vasai and Karjat by constructing new rail lines. The budget for this ambitious plan is a humongous Rs 37,977 crore.