HOW CAN THEY DO THAT ?????

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had given the job of designing and construction to Gammon India and the reason given by the authorities was that it was done to save costs. What a horrendous decision is this.

This is something like giving a caterer a lakh of rupees to prepare lunch for a thousand people and also giving him the freedom to choose the menu. Obviously he is going to serve you with Curd Rice and pickles while he prepares a feast for himself with the rest of the money. This is exactly what Gammon India have done for Delhi Metro Rail lines. Unfortunately just as sometimes the curd gets sour even before it is served, so has the structures built by Gammon India.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."

- Author unknown

TALKING ABOUT DROUGHT, WHAT ABOUT THE FLOODS

It is shocking to find that the Government, political analysts, media and a whole lot of communities, who think they can successfully run the country with their oratorial abilities, are so much engrossed in shouting in resonance that the country is facing a situation of severe drought when there is a part of our country called “Assam” which is reeling in heavy flood even this year.

It is a horrific revelation of total non-governance and lack of Political will (I really don’t understand why it is such an importance feature of governance) on the part of Indian Democratic system, when this phenomena of flood in Assam and drought or shortage of rainfall in other parts of the country has been going on for decades now, that not a single tangible step has been taken to harness the flood water and divert it to regions with shortage of rainfall. People who talk about the cost of such an exercise should just put their heads and look at the amount spent in flood relief in Assam almost every year and compensation to farmers in other parts of the country every year, which would cumulate to a sum many more times higher than that would have taken to harness the flood water from Assam.

It is even more pitiable that today people have even stopped discussing the subject of floods in Assam in detail and are only shouting about the drought in Northern India.

INDIAN GOVERNING SYSTEM – FUELLED BY PRESSURE

I have been getting this feeling sometimes that the Indian governing system runs on the fuel called “Pressure”. Let me be clear that this fuel called “Pressure” is only meant to run the governance part of the Indian Government and not the non-governance activities which forms a major part of Indian Democratic system.

It is also that our governance system runs only on high degree of “Pressure”. Take the case of killing of a MBA graduate in Madhya Pradesh. The Government took action to investigate the case by CB-CID and then the CBI only after heavy “Pressure” from the public.

So we should all understand that we need to fuel the governing system of our country separately for separate functions. For governance activities, we need to fuel it constantly with “Pressure” and for Non-governance activities, anway we all know how to fuel it. I think the whole problem is that we have been using only the fuel meant for non-governance activities, whereby the process of governance has become a junk.

So jaago bharat jaago, we all have more than required “Pressures” in our life. Just keep releasing it on the Government, I am sure we will have a better governing system in place.

GENERAL LAWS OF LIFE

Got this as a forward. These are things happens to us almost daily. But when we find such things happen in the life of most of us, it becomes a General Law or Rule of Life.

LAW OF QUEUE: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

LAW OF TELEPHONE : When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

LAW OF BIO-MECHANICS : After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tyre, the next morning you will have a flat tyre.

BATH THEOREM: Whenever you are immersed in the tub, the telephone rings.

LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

THE ITCHY LAW : The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.

LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

SOME WORDS DEFINE THEMSELVES

We find certain words in English, their spelling or pronunciation give their meaning and characteristics more perfectly than any dictionary.. Two such words I found are “EASY” and “PERSEVERENCE”. Their choice of letters, number of letters and their arrangements define the word so perfectly which made me feel that development of these words was really a great work of art.

100% VOTING – THE ONLY WAY TO STEM THE DIVIDE OF INDIA IN CASTE AND RELIGIOUS LINES

If spreading of casteism and dividing the country in terms of religion is a crime, then the politicians of this country are the biggest perpetrators of this crime. And we all know that they are not indulging in this crime for the upliftment of any particular caste or religion. The motive is only one that of gaining the support and votes of a particular caste. The politicians know very well that once people of a particular caste are uplifted and are able to stand on their own, they would stop voting.

It’s a sad predicament in India that people who do not have anything else to do only feel the need to vote while a majority among us don’t understand that we are forced to do a lot of things which our conscience does not permit and waste our time and energy on that, only because we don’t exercise our right to vote.

Suppose you do a case study of a particular Lok Sabha or Assembly constituency which falls within a rural or semi-urban India, you will find that there will be two major parties fighting for the seat, a couple of minor parties and a few independents. Each of the major parties might be having the support of about 20% of the votes. The minor parties which would definitely be a caste or religion based parties would have about 10% support each and independents can garner a support of 5% on their own. The constituency will be dominated by one or two caste or religion, which may constitute 35% of the electorate. The remaining 65% may be the educated, uplifted or so to say casteless community.

The major political parties who have about 20% support talk loud about the majority caste or religion in the constituency on how they are suppressed and suffer etc. to gain that additional 10% vote to win the seat. Considering some cross voting taking place among the major parties, the person who talks louder on caste or religion wins the seat by polling just about 30% vote in his favour. The reason being the most of the 50% casteless community and the enlightened part of the majority caste do not exercise their right to vote which results in the victory of a candidate by polling less than one-third total votes in his favour.

Take the case if 90% of the electorate in the constituency goes to vote. The major political party cannot just talk loud on a single dominant caste or religion in the constituency to win the election because in that case their votes alone will not be sufficient for his victory. The politician will be forced to talk on real issues and in terms of performance and upliftment of the downtrodden.

Four major outcomes will emerge from a near 100% voter turnout in the elections.

1) Divide of the nation in terms of caste and religion will definitely get reduced.
2) Real and actual upliftment of the downtrodden castes will happen as the politicians will have no benefit in keeping them downtrodden.
3) If at all money is being distributed in elections, they will get reduced as the politicians cannot afford to distribute money to all the voters in the constituency.
4) Last but not the least the governing and performance efficiency of even the most non-performing politician will look upward when they realize they can no longer win election in religion or caste platform.