A remote village in Kerala has no bus service, people come together, organize for a bus service
- a road is in bad shape in a village, villagers do shram dhan and get it fixed.
Bangalore roads - the golden highway that connects the IT barons' nests, is in bad shape - whine, whine, whine and whine more. Is it too difficult to get all employees to give away a day's pay, get them in groups to do some shram dhan and get the road fixed. Hasnt this gone on for too long.
I am not excusing the govt of its responsibilities, it is inept in a lot of ways. Isnt it better to look for a solution rather than point to the problem for years.
It is not new for corporate houses to take care of parks and green zones in traffic junctions, why not this too?
In fact in one of the TV shows where NRN was talking about the infrastructure and particularly the roads a doctor from Narayan Hridayalaya said - I see patients from villages that have unheard for roads and therefore a bad road does not bother my patients nor me. Isnt there something to learn and see here.
Pampered IT lot should start looking at the rest of the country too and then crib about their problems.
3 comments:
Let me tell you what happened when a big builder who was building a multi storeyed apartment in my neighbourhood offered to make the road leading to his apartment.
The corporator told him to pay him 50 lakhs before doing it!!
You see there is a lot of money flowing to the elected representatives in all these tenders. The reason why they do not want private parties to do it is because they'd lose out.
Then finally we did a rasta roko and got an apology of a road laid by the government - 6 months and there are potholes already.
They wont do it and they wont let us do it - that is our fate here.
You have a good point.
I was hoping the powers in terms of position and reputation that these companies enjoy will make it easy for them to get the roads done than what it would be for a small group like the one you were refering to.
I agree that the IT companies may enjoy a better clout. But when NRN wanted to present his views on improving the state's infrastructure Deve Gowda told him not to tell the government what to do.
And this builder is no pushover. it is a ver big name.
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