Recently central government brought an amendment to the traffic rules and is going to levy heavy penalties, for the lapses. KCR being a clever CM, he is not going to implement this immediately, as he must have understood the pulse of people. I agree, penalties for misconducts are good as heavy penalties will certainly act as a deterrent, but Govt’s have to be reasonable, and responsible. On the one hand, they don’t develop infrastructure, like good roads, alternate modes of transportation, and mobility, they won’t regulate heavy traffic congestion’s, etc, but they want to levy heavy fines, how far is it reasonable, it’s for the people to take a judicious view.
Hyderabad as such, with the onset of monsoon, the condition of roads have worsened and they are worsening further with each passing day. Many tall promises were made like they will turn Hyderabad into Dallas, and Warangal to London, etc. But now it reflects the country poorly. Seven decades after Independence with so much technology in place, we are struggling with the quality of our roads. We have made a lot of advancements in technology and progress in all walks of life. Ironically, these are the days we are trying to go to the moon and mars. It is a fact that most of the segments of our population are beneficiaries of government largesse irrespective of the party in power? It is our misfortune that majorly our roads seem to be untouched with any advancement in technology. While middle-class tax-payers are not enjoying the government largesse or any welfare schemes.
It’s our earnest appeal to our rulers to give us atleast good motorable roads otherwise, it’s just futile to have great cars and other infrastructure if we have the roads with filth and big potholes. Good roads would benefit all irrespective of social, and economic status, caste, religion and in the process votes also get increased. It is suggested that the government should form a body of senior citizens, journalists, engineering people to monitor the quality of roads which will only have big potholes, immediately after it rains. In Hyderabad, for GHMC, managing roads is more difficult rocket science or so it appears like it.
