The infrastructure of Mumbai represents the comprehensive and complexity of the issues that the country faces in urban infrastructure as a whole.

Corruption, bureaucratic inefficiencies, governmental regulations and prevailing laws are expected to remain constant and inherent in the system.

The list of issues causing urban infrastructure problem is not static, new issues such as general economic changes at macro / micro level can affect urban infrastructure.

Once a constraint has been solved, the next constraint can only be predicted with a very low probability because of the above reason. So for the purpose of clarity only one cycle of analysis is performed.

The paper limits the scope of urban infrastructure to housing, transportation, water supply and sewage treatment for ease of analysis.

The benefits of de-bottlenecking the constraint is expected to outweigh the costs associated with it.

The existing political system is expected to remain the same barring the transfer of power.

Migration to the city is assumed to be constant and beyond the control of the existing system.

The proposed model uses diagrammatic representations like rectangles for the ease of usage though it means a deviation from the standard graphic representation used in Theory of Constraints

Current Scenario & Issues in Urban Infrastructure

The Urban Infrastructure system: The following figure represents the Urban Infrastructure as a system representing the various parts (the subsystems that make the whole system as well as the input and the output from the system). Here the system includes the government - both central and state, private business houses, financial institutions, regulatory bodies and the end user representatives.

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* Contributed by -
R. Rajesh, PGDBA - 1st Year,
Kiron Kumar Varma, PGDBA - 2nd Year,
K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai.