Yet another day that went down the drain! The Left Democratic Front had called for the dawn-to-dusk 'hartal' in protest against what they termed 'the police excesses' on their leaders.
What they had conveniently forgotten was the provocation from their side simply because the police force is the favourite whipping boy for all. The state is reeling under the havoc caused by the monsoons and the people are crying for help at many places where the devastation has been of epic proportions and it's there that both the ruling and the opposition fronts should have been concentrating their efforts on. And after having controlled the situation, they could have gone back to scoring brownie points!
But is anyone bothered about governance? Do the people's problems have any priority in their scheme of things? And the Metro-rail work took its first major hit in having to stop work thanks to the absence of the workers - E Sreedharan and his team had projected the requirement of 1,095 working days(three years) for the project's successful completion. Mind you, this seems to be the first disruption and cannot be the last from past experiences.
The time and cost overruns be damned!
I'd a wonderful time in driving my Chevy to work. The normally choc-a-bloc roads were empty with very few vehicles plying. And it was pouring almost all through the day. The loss of man hours and the consequent output, is yet to be ascertained but make no mistake it's gonna be in crores! We just don't want to learn our lessons. The progress of the state can afford to wait - so seems to be the message that our political class is trying to convey.
Tailpiece.
It was a harrying time for the hapless inbound passengers - who'd come in by rail, road and air - but most of them had taken the vagaries in their stride. As if they'd any other option?
But it was heartening to see the 'do-gooders' in various 'avatars'. The members of 'Bullethood' - a group of Royal Enfield Bullet riders ferried hundreds of stranded passengers to their destinations and the food made by the prison inmates was godsend to them as all eating joints had downed their shutters!
What they had conveniently forgotten was the provocation from their side simply because the police force is the favourite whipping boy for all. The state is reeling under the havoc caused by the monsoons and the people are crying for help at many places where the devastation has been of epic proportions and it's there that both the ruling and the opposition fronts should have been concentrating their efforts on. And after having controlled the situation, they could have gone back to scoring brownie points!
But is anyone bothered about governance? Do the people's problems have any priority in their scheme of things? And the Metro-rail work took its first major hit in having to stop work thanks to the absence of the workers - E Sreedharan and his team had projected the requirement of 1,095 working days(three years) for the project's successful completion. Mind you, this seems to be the first disruption and cannot be the last from past experiences.
The time and cost overruns be damned!
I'd a wonderful time in driving my Chevy to work. The normally choc-a-bloc roads were empty with very few vehicles plying. And it was pouring almost all through the day. The loss of man hours and the consequent output, is yet to be ascertained but make no mistake it's gonna be in crores! We just don't want to learn our lessons. The progress of the state can afford to wait - so seems to be the message that our political class is trying to convey.
Tailpiece.
It was a harrying time for the hapless inbound passengers - who'd come in by rail, road and air - but most of them had taken the vagaries in their stride. As if they'd any other option?
But it was heartening to see the 'do-gooders' in various 'avatars'. The members of 'Bullethood' - a group of Royal Enfield Bullet riders ferried hundreds of stranded passengers to their destinations and the food made by the prison inmates was godsend to them as all eating joints had downed their shutters!
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