Most of the space outside Borivli station is taken up by illegal hawkers, who presumably pay some people a lot of money to keep coming back, no matter how many times they are evicted. File pic

There were a number of things the government of Maharashtra could have ruined in 2016, but didn’t, possibly because our ministers were busy on study tours or something. As an honest tax-paying citizen, I felt duty-bound to try and think of things they can spend this whole new year ruining, whenever they find the time, after renaming streets and railway stations.