Friday, March 27, 2009
Will Delhi be any cleaner ?
Will Delhi ever be clean? Commonwealth Games have facilitated local government to have big budget to spend on fancy projects in order to make it look like Singapore. A lot many expansion projects are going on. Metro is being paraded as one big success. But I doubt even by the time of the Games, the cleanliness in the city would even marginally be improved. I don't talk of wider important roads. O.K., they look better. Many foreigners only see them. I talk of the city where over 12 million people live. It is pathetic that even when every politician is making all kinds of promises to garner votes to facilitate entry into the Lok Sabha, I don't find any body promising to strive to make capital city cleaner
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Yes, I remember how during the last to last Assembly Elections in Delhi there were intense verbal skirmies between followers of George Fernandes, the Defence Minister then and Congress workers over a heap of garbage just in front of a government school. A student had asked Fernandes during electioneeing why the garbage heap couldn't be cleaned. Fernandes promised it would be done and he did come to clean it with his truck load of Samata Party workers, but Congress was upset at this and tried to stop them cleaning the heap as that was touted as electioneering gimmick. Police had to intervene to see matter did not go out of hands. But after seven eight years of that drama one can ask if the garbage heap is still there. Yes, dear blogger that heap of garbage near West Vinod Nagar in East Delhi still exists. Who can clean Delhi? Certainly not these politicians?
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