Is Bangalore equipped enough ..... ?

Present population of bangalore is close to 6.7 mio.(including its suburbs) and in another 15 years (ie.by 2020) it is likely to be close to 10 mio.people. Is bangalore equipped to handle 75% growth in population in less than 15 years time. That is an approx.growth of 5% every year.

The infrastructure is already ill quipped and with expectation of such a large growth in population, are we ready to face this. The present answer will be a very big "NO".

It is high time that our politicians wake up to the basic requirements of common man.

and this is my beautiful angel - Ashwathi

this is my son - Kaushik

What the politicians' think ?

During 1980s, our politicians thought it is prudent to support LTTE. Because, the general tamil speaking people of sri lanka were subjected to brutal atrocities at the hands of sinhalese and as an emotional bonding of same language, it was prudent for the politicians to exploit that situation in their favour and LTTE was supported by the state government and the central government too. In fact, GOI supported them with arms and ammunition and training in warfare.Changes happened in the island conflict and India was made to mock at themselves by the sinhalese government and the LTTEs. This time the island people joined hands and made India suffer losses in the form of pride and manpower.Atlast, after the killing of Rajiv Gandhi at one of his beloved places (or rather he has quoted that it is one of the safest places) and has come without any security cover, the government realised that it is prudent to ban this terror outfit and delinked itself from the island conflict.

Now, it is the turn of the Islamic outfits like SIMI, etc. It has got the patronage of Samajwadi Party and it is openly admitting that it is not a terror outfit, although, some of the evidences in the recent terror attacks in our country leads to its involvement and some of its cadres has crossed borders for getting training in armed warfare.

By supporting LTTE we lost Rajiv Gandhi and what is the price we are offering for supporting SIMI, etc.

Traffic Chaos

Traffic Chaos

It is a nightmare when you think that you have to travel on this road to office and school in the morning and evening. Although, i travel only short distance of approx.4 kms.to my office, which will take almost 30 minutes.

Any guesses on which city, i am talking about - it is the garden city or the IT capital of India or simply Bangalore. It is high time that authorities think of the ordinary citizen of this country. Leave alone office goers, school children are the worst affected because of these roads and monsoon is round the corner. Last year's monsoon woes are still afresh in the minds of people and nothing has changed on the ground level in this one year.

We bangaloreans eagerly wait for better infrastructure.

State of Indian Rivers

At almost every year, we as a nation found that during the 2nd half of calendar year there is almost heavy rainfall in some parts of the country leading to floods killing almost 250 to 300 and during the 1st half of the year that follows, there is acute drought.

Last week, there was a news report which suggested that in bihar before the summer sets in almost 250 villages are facing drought situations. We talk of economy and when we talk, we restrict ourselves to the confines of urban folklore ignoring the mass who live in rural areas. There is no adequate water supply and power supply and roads. The basic infrastructure that required to be created for an economy to grow are not yet in place in most of the parts of our country.

Where are we heading ? Are we heading in the right direction ? Is our future taking the right shape in the form of good, better and best or bad, worse and worst ? The answer for all these questions seems to be in the inter-linking of west flowing rivers as far as south and north west and east flowing rivers in the eastern parts of our country. There is an enormous amount of clarity problem, when it comes to inter-linking of north-south rivers, but there is a definite possibility when it comes to inter-linking of two rivers within the regions or atleast within the states. There are adequate examples, where Andhra pradesh has linked two of its rivers and there is a river linking project between MP and UP.

There has been speculation that when inter-linking happens, like deforestation and loss of ground water and raise of sea water level, etc. Some of these concerns are true to some extent, but all these things can be discussed and countered. We are in a period of global warming and indiscriminate floods and change of weather patterns not only in our country, but across continents. And as a country, we are dependent on monsoon rains for our sustenance, and when the monsoon fails in one year, then the subsequent year drought brings in an apathy. To reduce the dependency on monsoon rains, the inter-linking can be tried out. We need to come out of petty political quarells like punjab stalling the river sharing agreement with haryana and kerala protesting the periyar dam issue, and the ever green cauvery and krishna water disputes between karnataka, tamilnadu and andhrapradesh. It is pending for quite a long time and as some states like, UP, MP and Andhra has shown the way, others can march forward for the safety of our future generations.