Mayor's kar lo duniya mutthi mein works

Updated On: 17 November, 2009 07:27 AM IST | | Somita Pal

Globe-trotting Shubha Raul is off to Korea today for a three-day trip, and going by history, will return none the wiser

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Globe-trotting Shubha Raul is off to Korea today for a three-day trip, and going by history, will return none the wiser

In 1931 the city got its first mayor. In the 78 years since, Mayor Shubha Raul has made history by being the mayor who's notched up the maximum number of foreign trips seven so far.

She jets off to Busan in South Korea today. And you are paying for it.

Before Raul, there have been 73 mayors, but none have quite managed to wrangle three trips a year.

Said Raul, "I'm going to Korea because the central government asked me to go. I am supposed to sign a memorandum to forge a sister-city relationship between Busan in Korea and Mumbai in India.
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The formalities for this MOU have been pending for more than eight years and the government admonished us and asked us whether we were seriously interested in tying up the agreement.