Member of Parliament Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that drone mapping would be used to identify and eliminate bottlenecks that cause traffic issues, as well as a “slum free” Mumbai without displacing slum dwellers. Goyal, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from the Mumbai North parliamentary constituency for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, made the statements during a public meeting with constituents at the Raheja Estate in Borivli (East). 

“For the last three weeks, since I was declared as the candidate, I have been in discussion about some issues in the constituency. One of the topics under discussion has been about making the commute traffic-free. For a long time, I did not have a solution to this problem but on thinking further, I thought of drone mapping to find out where the bottlenecks are and what is causing them. If successful, this model can be adopted for other states and countries as well,” Goyal said. He also stated that he had plans to make north Mumbai “slum-free”.