The people who work hardest in our city are corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Doctors and teachers do nothing of importance when compared to what these hard-working BMC men and women do. Before you scoff and throw aside this column for something worse, like a novel by Amish Tripathi, allow me to explain: It isn’t easy going halfway across the world every other month in order to study something extremely important, then travelling back with all that information and attempting to replicate it here. But that is exactly what our corporators do: They make enormous sacrifices for us all.

Just earlier this month, for instance, BMC leaders planned an elaborate tour to Amsterdam, to study that city’s water supply, solid waste management and other development projects, just so they could bring back all that learning with them and change our lives in the process at some point in the fairly distant future. When was the last time your doctor or teacher did something so selfless?