Some Random Thoughts

Hi All, At last Pune roads will finally get redemption and salvation by the 30th Nov 2006. That being the date fixed by the Mumbai High Court for getting all roads pot hole free. Thats provided the officials in the Pune Municipal Corporation deem it reasonable to comply with the court orders.. Some friends have already tried gandhigiri and not seen success till date. Gandhi Ji has told us that it the opponent attacks you and slaps you on one side of the face show him the other. He obviously has not told us if the A**H@!$ attacks you the second time. Then I guess it time to revert back to Circuit Giri. Lets see who becomes circuit this time - The People or the Court. Either ways we need more Circuits to get some sense into the heads of these "Government Servents". Maybe some Circuit procedures to perforate their heads will help in the Osmosis Process... Cheers till then, Pushkar Bhat

Hi, For the past some months folks in Pune in India have been experiencing a roads system which seems to be terminally ill. Whats even more surprising is the fact that Public representative refuse to acknowledge the problem. Seems to be a strange case of infrastructural euthanesia :(. All this after the city having spent a record amount for improving roads just last year. BTW couple of weeks ago I had the honor of watching a movie called "Lage Raho Munna Bhai". The central theme was on how a seemingly mentally unwell protogenist gets flowers and cards from people at large which ultimately brings about the change of heart. Seems the chief commissioner of the local government in his capacity as the custodian of the roads should be getting a truck load of roses with a get well soon card. Roads in Pune need to get better from their seemingly terminal illness. "Lage Raho Munna Bhai" showed that there is always hope even for cronically ill people. BTW folks t...

Permalink http://www.indianexpress.com/printerFriendly/14277.html Print Story Now Gujarat poor don’t need to chase schemes, they will come home Sreenivas janyala Posted online: Sunday, October 08, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 7After several years of waiting, Railiben Babubhai Naik, who belongs to a below-poverty-line (BPL) family, got a house under the Indira Awas Yojna in Ankli village of Devgadh Baria in Dahod district. She was entitled to the benefits for a decade but never got them. Sigabhai Valjibhai Vasawa of Jharvani village in Nandod Taluka of Narmada district needed Rs 10,000 to set up a provision store. He got it under the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY) in August when officials of the Directorate of Rural Development Agency came looking for him. Thanks to a new delivery system developed by the Gujarat Rural Development Department, schemes meant for BPL and poor families are now reaching the people they are meant for. “From treating the schemes as ‘quotas...