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Updated On: 03 March, 2024 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Sameer Surve
How many people does it take to raise a critical bridge that connects two parts of a continent-sized Mumbai suburb? Five hundred citizens —sharing pictures of the work on a WhatsApp group, making an MLA accountable, cultivating spies and keeping the pressure on for 15 months
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(Left to right) Karan Jotwani, Vipul Solanki, Prashant Gangwal, Ratanjit Gandhok, Minoo Sukhia, Dhaval Shah, Jayant Mehta, Zoru Bhathena, (front row) Jayant Mehta, Dinesh Mehta and Neha Ghai belong to the 500-member strong citizens group that followed up relentlessly with civic authorities to ensure the completion of Andheri’s Gopal Krishna Gokhale bridge which opened on February 25. Pic/Nimesh Dave
On the evening of November 7, 2022, Juhu homemaker Neha Ghai created a WhatsApp group with seven people she thought would care. She named it GOKHALE BRIDGE-ASAP. They also lived in and around Andheri, and seemed the sorts to help her with a cause dear to her heart. By November 9, the group had swollen to 500 people.
“I didn’t think much about what the group could accomplish when I created it,” says Ghai as we stand at the mouth of the freshly inaugurated 80-metre Gopal Krishna Gokhale bridge on February 26. “Initially, the group largely stuck to updates such as when the bridge will open, or what a minister said…”
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