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'We built Mumbai's first water tunnels, concrete roads in the 1980s'
Updated On: 28 September, 2019 12:30 PM IST | | Rajendra B Aklekar
DM Sukthankar is recognised as an expert on issues related to urban development and management, municipal administration and housing
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Speaking about Metro, Sukthankar agreed that Metros should have come much earlier. All Pictures/Pradeep Dhivar
A 1910 Raja Ravi Varma painting of the 'Shiva family' hangs on the wall of the living room facing the Worli connector of the Bandra Worli Sea Link. Amid the soft tinkling of wind chimes tuning their own notes as the sea breeze hits them, soft music of old Marathi songs plays on a Caravan portable radio. I was waiting to interview Maharashtra's retired bureaucrat D.M. Sukthankar at his bright and compact Worli apartment, peppered with antique furniture and memorabilia.
Sukthankar has seen it all. He has seen Mumbai grow in his nearly 35 year-long illustrious career in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) as, inter alia, the Metropolitan Commissioner and chief of what was then the Bombay Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA), now the MMRDA, Mumbai city's Municipal Commissioner, and as Maharashtra's Chief Secretary.
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