The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to make Koliwada in Worli as a tourist attraction. This will also generate employment for fishermen folk.
As part of this project, the civic body will be offering an e-vehicle service for tourists and local people in Koliwada post-monsoon.
The civic body will hire two e-vehicles with a sitting capacity of six people each, which will help the local people as well as tourists to travel with ease.
The roads in Worli Koliwada are congested and narrow, making it difficult for the movement of light motor vehicles. The fisherfolk carry fishes from Jetty to Worli bus stop by a cycle. The proposed service will also have a carrier facility to make it convenient for the fisherman to carry their fish.
The project will be funded by District Planning Development Council (DPDC) while it is carried out as per instructions of Mumbai city Guardian minister Deepak Kesarkar.
The BMC has received responses from three companies that are interested in providing e-vehicles. Each vehicle costs around INR 6 to 8 lakhs. An unemployed youth will be driving an e-auto. Based on the response of local people and tourists, the charges for the services will be decided.
Currently, there are no bus services and autorickshaws are not easily available, making people difficult to travel from one point to another.
Besides vehicles, the BMC also plans to set up mobile eateries serving seafood in Koliwadas. However, the food on wheel project has received stiff opposition from the local fisherfolk who alleged that it will be a threat to their means of livelihood.
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