Is your govt serious at creating infrastructure for healty progress?
By limcyjain
@limcyjain (3516)
India
September 22, 2008 12:59pm CST
I am from punjab, india. The region recenty faced heavy rains and with that it revealed the kind of quality material the contractors here are using to metal the roads. No proper drainage and roads with deep potholes are now a part of daily life here. The govt which generates a healty revenue collecting taxes is least worried over the issue. It surprises me that the govt is very worried over the rising fuel import bill and in ground reality we are wasting fuel like anthing because of very poorly maintained infrastructure and traffic jams. Another issue which came in to light is the poor money management. The power supply board in punjab spent 20000crores of ruppess to buy power at high prices from other states but never thought of setting up its own power plant which would have cost Rs 4000 crores to fulful the demand supply gap. Endless reservations and rampant corruption are giving power to persons who are not capable of planning out the course of action and peoples money is being wasted? Is this exclusively an indian example or is it a part of countries all around the world.
1 response
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
22 Sep 08
No, Im afraid its here in the United State too. What has me concerned is that we have whole countries buying out peices of infrastructure here and I just do not know the implications of such a thing. We have a crisis I belive in the near future because theres tons of pipes corroding away every Winter, and still I think theres only like 5 states that actually put up the money to update the infrastructure and nobody is getting any richer so its something that needs to be addressed immediately because the quality of life for millions of people could be compromised, unfortunately for the less fortunate.
