Recently I was in India and had a chance to experience the road conditions after the monsoon. It is a disaster. There are great cars and bikes being produced in India but does anyone care about the roads on which these run? The roads are so bad that the car chassis bumps against the road. The rains have practically washed away parts of the roads. I am talking about major roads in cities and the explained given was that we had rains in the recent past.
In contrast, I travelled on some of the private/toll roads and they were not affected by the rains. How is this possible? This means the roads are not layed properly by the govt. contracted agencies. In fact these roads are re-layed newly every year. How is the private sector able to lay such good roads? Why cannot the govt. pay these companies and get the same quality work done ? Where is all the money going? You don't have to lay road every year if you lay them properly even if it costs more.
You be the judge as to who is cheating the public ? The politicians ,the contracted agencies, the govt. officials or am I expecting too much .
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Disparate road conditions
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Infrastructure
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