WE HAVE DONE IT
Today the pre monsoon showers arrived in Mumbai!! The scorching heat of the sun has been suddenly surpassed by the pleasant weather and the wonderful grey clouds up there in the sky! Just the way a change should be. Its perfect! Its time to go to Worli sea face or Marine Drive enjoying roasted chana or butta with friends and sing with everyone, “Yere Yere Pavsa” (Which is a regional Marathi song… calling the rains)The pre-monsoon shower has also sent us an alarm that the MONSOONS ARE COMING! Gear up Guys! Remember last monsoon what happened to Mumbai!
That day of July I witnessed the world’s highest recorded rainfall in a day…. And it was disastrous and catastrophic and ruinous and grievous and all other adjectives you could think of.
Which makes me wonder whether the government has taken all the steps to avoid the same situation? They say they have cleared up the Mithi River; I hope so too.
But one thing I can comment on is the situation of the ROADS in Mumbai especially in monsoon. Let us start again… its disastrous and grievous and ruinous etc etc…
The Ghodbunder Road… Yes the legendary old road in Thane where my complex is, has been popular for all these years for the wrong reasons- Accidents, potholes etc..
The government that would get it concreted and get a flyover built with streetlights and lanes and dividers, trust me they would win all elections thereafter in the area. But it’s simply not done for all these years (Although I should mention Mr.Chandrashekhar tried his best to get it right.)
Some months back, I was coming home by bus from my college in the evening as usual and at the Kapurbadwi Circle- one of the junctions of Ghodbunder road there was a big banner…. Yes a really huge banner put up by the National Congress Party (Sharad Pawar and Company) with some of them smiling as never before and had a big heading-
WE HAVE DONE IT !
Since the bus passed by the banner really fast I couldn’t actually figure out what they had done. So I made a point to see it the next day what they have done. The next day from the bus I read the banner but I don’t remember the exact words but to give a gist they were communicating that the Ghodbunder road would be concreted. I felt good deep inside that next time I drive my car on this road …I would glide.
But hey, have you really done it? Where is it done? Its still the same… Actually not quite the same. The concretization started months after the banner which said WE HAVE DONE IT was put up. Look at the irony of the situation, the road was never looked after for so many years and now they are in the middle of concretization of the road and the monsoons have nearly arrived. Another 70% of the road is the way it was however some patchwork has been done.
I think the political parties of India lack the SENSE OF TIMING. Only in this one situation I can give you two instances; one is they started the 18 months project of Ghodbunder road 2-3 months before monsoon (hopefully the government is finding solutions to fix the problem of ½ well concreted and other half with potholes since both are at different levels) and second, the NCP should had put the banner only after the road was done, right? Or if you are really in a hurry of putting the banner then write something like-
WE ARE DOING IT! As that would make some relevance to the situation.
I have heard the CM and the other delegates are working on some temporary solution for the Ghodbunder Road for the monsoons…. I really hope they do. Or else I think once the monsoon starts things would get really pathetic to legendary levels and then the public can put a bigger banner with all these guys smiling wider than ever (or some other expression that they feel is appropriate for the situation) with a bigger heading addressing the NCP- LOOK WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!
(Nevertheless, at least the work has started. Better late then never…)
Here’s a gist of the positive side that the NCP did for the Ghodbunder road:
Tracking the tender January 12: Public Works Department (Public Undertakings) Minister Anil Deshmukh meets residents, announces plans to revamp Ghodbunder Road into a 10-lane superway. A tender is floated for the Rs 140.44-crore project
April: MSRDC board passes tender in favour of Ideal Builders. Tender is put before the infrastructure committee headed by the Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh
October 1: Newsline report highlights why the Ghodbunder road revamp is stuck
October 3: Local legislator Jitendra Awhad protests the delay in clearing the tender. Awhad, along with other Nationalist Congress Party members, plants trees inside the potholes
October 22: Anil Deshmukh had written to the CM on four occasions. Deshmukh says he ‘‘does not remember the matter and does not recall the tender’’
November 24: Tender gets a go-ahead from the CM
In that case, a banner relevant to the situation should have said, “ We have passed the tender!” or "We have passed it!" cause you know it’s not yet done….
posted by Omkar @ 1:57 AM
2 Comments:
Hey gd work yaar! :)
A true mockery on the present political system.....The Statement "We have Done it" is itself Satiric when the entire article is read n analysed.....jus a next door situation but very well awakens any responsible citizen towards the political propagandism....isnt it an irony the way our leaders...who are chosen for our welfare make big big promises n alwaz get derailed deliberately once they r in power...the article opens our eyes towards the way the government functions.....heard from childhood slow n steady wins the race but the government work is alwaz slow n unsteady...lacks the calculation of timing n planning required...great effort to bring the citizens of india closer to the existing political scenario which is sardonic unruly...a big applause to u my dear writer....great job....accept my heartiest appreciation.
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