In the span of two days, I had a very close encounter with "Modi-Raj" on the ground !!
Vision to execution. And its worth telling this story ...
Mr. Modi addressed the nation from Red Fort on the occasion of 68th Independence Day.
And what an extempore it was !!! His "insider" view on how every two department of the same government are fighting among themselves, his appeal to each MP to build a model village, his assuring tone to the nation !! All in all a very simple yet extremely ambitious plan for India laid out in that speech.
Right next day, the local BJP MLA called for a meeting of all Residents Welfare Association member to redress different grievances and take down corrective measures to march our ward towards that goal and vision.
He was accompanied by ACP, Traffic and Dept head for each urban and rural development orgs.
The first topic that was picked up was Traffic. The different congestion points, one after another, were being discussed. The traffic police would be the first one to answer to complaint and simply push it over to BDA, BBMP for Road being too narrow and pot holes due to rain (which has not really happened this year). The BDA will push it to BMTC saying, busses park at the junctions.
BMTC passing it over to Health to provide license to street vendors who take up spaces under bus stand shades, and then finally health pushing it over to electricity dept to talk about how there is not enough lighting, so people do not feel safe to wait there and they come to wait for the buses at the intersections. Eventually all pointing fingers to grieving tax payers for walking on the road and slowing traffic down (like there is a choice).
So it was a perfect circle of pointing fingers, in front of a seemingly frustrated MLA, among the officials. Just few sequences changed, but all along a perfect circle of blame. No way to get out of !!!! No one took the action on them for even one bottle neck of traffic jam.
Finally, traffic police suggested, they do not have enough staff.. and they are willing to provide badges to some citizens to man the traffic during peak hours ! At that point, I saw the crowd slowly dispersing.
So, Mr. Modi - 10 yrs of "No Divisive" topic ... and "no in-fighting among depts" has not come to ground level yet... Or you blame that to State Govt in this case ????
Vision to execution. And its worth telling this story ...
Mr. Modi addressed the nation from Red Fort on the occasion of 68th Independence Day.
And what an extempore it was !!! His "insider" view on how every two department of the same government are fighting among themselves, his appeal to each MP to build a model village, his assuring tone to the nation !! All in all a very simple yet extremely ambitious plan for India laid out in that speech.
Right next day, the local BJP MLA called for a meeting of all Residents Welfare Association member to redress different grievances and take down corrective measures to march our ward towards that goal and vision.
He was accompanied by ACP, Traffic and Dept head for each urban and rural development orgs.
The first topic that was picked up was Traffic. The different congestion points, one after another, were being discussed. The traffic police would be the first one to answer to complaint and simply push it over to BDA, BBMP for Road being too narrow and pot holes due to rain (which has not really happened this year). The BDA will push it to BMTC saying, busses park at the junctions.
BMTC passing it over to Health to provide license to street vendors who take up spaces under bus stand shades, and then finally health pushing it over to electricity dept to talk about how there is not enough lighting, so people do not feel safe to wait there and they come to wait for the buses at the intersections. Eventually all pointing fingers to grieving tax payers for walking on the road and slowing traffic down (like there is a choice).
So it was a perfect circle of pointing fingers, in front of a seemingly frustrated MLA, among the officials. Just few sequences changed, but all along a perfect circle of blame. No way to get out of !!!! No one took the action on them for even one bottle neck of traffic jam.
Finally, traffic police suggested, they do not have enough staff.. and they are willing to provide badges to some citizens to man the traffic during peak hours ! At that point, I saw the crowd slowly dispersing.
So, Mr. Modi - 10 yrs of "No Divisive" topic ... and "no in-fighting among depts" has not come to ground level yet... Or you blame that to State Govt in this case ????
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