INDIA CRYING : NATIONAL SHAME

22 nd April,2012

INDIA CRYING : NATIONAL SHAME

22 nd April,2012

INDIA CRYING : NATIONAL SHAME

20th April, 2012

INDIA CRYING : NATIONAL SHAME

20th April, 2012

CHANDIGARH CALLING : TRAFFIC CHAOS MANAGEMENT

Everyday one reads about the traffic jams and chaos on the Chandigarh roads in newspapers. Chandigarh because of its geographical situation is the gateway to Himachal, Haryana and UP on the Panchkula side, to Ambala, Delhi, Patiala on the Zirakpur side, Punjab, Himachal on the Kharar side and Baddi, Bilaspur in Himachal and Ropar in Punjab on the upcoming Mullanpur side.This urban conglomerate is going to swell to more than 3 million by 2030. It is time the planners start having a vision 2050 for the city and its surroundings encompassing Ropar, Samrala, Baddi, Kalka Pinjore complex, Barwala, Dera Bassi and Rajpura if it has to grow like a well planned comfortable international class urban conglomerate through these years. The blue print should have provisions of MRTS ( Mass Rapid Transport System ) with properly chalked out route plans amidst urban planning of more satellite towns with proper residential, healthcare and education infrastructure. Let these towns not grow like Zirakpur with utter disregard to its own planning and like Zirakpur and Panchkula with little regard to connectivity with Chandigarh for all life activity in these surrounding townships is going to evolve around Chandigarh only.  

Panchkula and Zirakpur demand special attention because they have developed into very large residential hubs and traffic on two national highways and two state highways has to pass through these towns leading to absolute traffic chaos and miseries for both ,the residents and highway users. Chandigarh Panchkula connectivity cannot be hassle free until and unless we have minimum of four connecting roads and a separate elevated carriageway bypassing Panchkula, Manimajra and Chandimandir leading to Haryana, Himachal and other states. Similarly Zirakpur also should have elevated bypasses leading to all national and state highways.
For Chandigarh the solution to traffic problems has to dwell on underground metro and underpasses at all major road intersections keeping in line with the heritage design concepts of town planning and architecture.The metro must touch airport, railway station and bus stand for the convenience of all travellers as is the practice everywhere on this globe. In fact it will be desirable to have airport connectivity with long distance train route also. If our planners do not wake up to the likely ground reality three decades hence this urban conglomerate will be no different to the present chaotic metros.                                                   

INDIA CRYING FOR HONEST POLITY

The rulers in India whether at the centre or in states seem to have a few things in common which are elucidated as follows and are apparent in all actions of theirs.

• No concern for the country
• Play vote bank politics all the time and raise a lot of rhetoric by way of vote catching slogans without bothering to improve the lot of common citizenry.
• Make no worthwhile effort to mitigate corruption, black money generation and punishing culprits who are brought to light through media and political warfare amongst polity itself.
• Nurture bureaucracy and executive through use of your discretionary powers 
• in promotions and postings during active service
• lure of concessional/choicest real estate 
•  extensions and plum appointments post retirement
• Drill it on the common man that rules and laws are for him and him alone and we the rulers are above them.

The Polity has to change itself if India has to grow into an economic superpower within this god sent time window of opportunity in terms of advanced world economic crisis resulting from their high wages, too much expenditure on social security schemes and  a totally unfavourable demography. If it does not happen in this time slot when the global conditions and India's demography are at favourable best, India will grow old before getting rich and the polity alone will be responsible for  this debacle.

ART Of POLITICS: BEST Of OPINIONS

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” 
― Groucho Marx


“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” 
― Mark Twain


“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” 
― Winston S. Churchill


“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” 
― Napoleon Bonaparte


“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” 
― Mark Twain


“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” 
― Benjamin Franklin


“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” 
― Edward R. Murrow
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” 
― Frank Herbert


“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” 
― Plato


“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” 
― Karl Marx


“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.” 
― Edward Abbey