AN EASY BMC RECIPE FOR CITY DISASTERS.....May 31
Rains lashed out in Mumbai today.....so the Jacobian cuckoo or as locally called *Chataka* proved more accurate than the Met Department....( the Met dept predicted that the rains will start on July 2nd while the *Chatakâ* who is seen just before the rains was seen yesterday)......
It has been raining very heavily since this evening and I really hope it is not the repeat of 26/7 only a bit too early!!!
With so much of rain....I was sure to find my clinic empty....but I braved my way though and finally reached....and thanks to the BMC had a lovely drive....
So here it is....AN EASY BMC RECIPE FOR CITY DISASTERS.....for various other City Councils and Boroughs to follow:
1. NEVER CLEAN THE DRAINS.......and if you do see to it that you do a shoddy job or leave the garbage at a place where it can block the drains again.....The roads around my place were already water-logged and makes you wonder....did the municipal authorities do anything through the year or have they just lazed around and swindled with all the tax-payer's money???? CORRUPT BASTARDS.........
2. SAVE ELECTRICITY.......and the best way to do it is never to service any street lights prior to rains or check any electricity cables.....frequent power-cuts and lack of street lights will save a lot of electricity....
3. NEVER CO-ORDINATE.....with any other department whatsoever....below their dignity to do so....
4. ROADS AND TRAFFIC.....roads are incomplete without open pot-holes, bumps, ditches, et al....and rains have to be synonymous with traffic jams.......and so even with just the first rains....when the traffic can be chaotic.....saw very few pandus (traffic police).....
Though the traffic was not as chaotic as ever and most of the people were driving cautiously....there were exceptions like some odd car driver who wants to get ahead of you or someone who wants to drive with a full upper beam for head-lights and then there are rickshaw-wallahs who just stop on the middle of the road and switch off all the lights.....
Despite all this we have to give some credit to the BMC/ MMRDA.....for transforming a part of the Western Express Highway into a mini-Khandala......with numerous mini waterfalls underneath all the fly-overs for all the people who can not afford to take a vacation to enjoy!!!
It has been raining very heavily since this evening and I really hope it is not the repeat of 26/7 only a bit too early!!!
With so much of rain....I was sure to find my clinic empty....but I braved my way though and finally reached....and thanks to the BMC had a lovely drive....
So here it is....AN EASY BMC RECIPE FOR CITY DISASTERS.....for various other City Councils and Boroughs to follow:
1. NEVER CLEAN THE DRAINS.......and if you do see to it that you do a shoddy job or leave the garbage at a place where it can block the drains again.....The roads around my place were already water-logged and makes you wonder....did the municipal authorities do anything through the year or have they just lazed around and swindled with all the tax-payer's money???? CORRUPT BASTARDS.........
2. SAVE ELECTRICITY.......and the best way to do it is never to service any street lights prior to rains or check any electricity cables.....frequent power-cuts and lack of street lights will save a lot of electricity....
3. NEVER CO-ORDINATE.....with any other department whatsoever....below their dignity to do so....
4. ROADS AND TRAFFIC.....roads are incomplete without open pot-holes, bumps, ditches, et al....and rains have to be synonymous with traffic jams.......and so even with just the first rains....when the traffic can be chaotic.....saw very few pandus (traffic police).....
Though the traffic was not as chaotic as ever and most of the people were driving cautiously....there were exceptions like some odd car driver who wants to get ahead of you or someone who wants to drive with a full upper beam for head-lights and then there are rickshaw-wallahs who just stop on the middle of the road and switch off all the lights.....
Despite all this we have to give some credit to the BMC/ MMRDA.....for transforming a part of the Western Express Highway into a mini-Khandala......with numerous mini waterfalls underneath all the fly-overs for all the people who can not afford to take a vacation to enjoy!!!
posted by jerry_mumbai at 12:18 AM
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