These days there is a lot of excitement re Central
Government plan to convert 100 existing cities into " Smart Cities "
.
List is out but surprisingly , cities which did not
make to this list , are not protesting at being left out !
How come ?
I presume , citizens of these left out cities are
thinking :
" Oh , sure
, it would be nice to have fully solar powered city , having 6 lane boulevards
, flanked by gleaming office towers , city-wide free Wi-Fi , covered gutters
with automated garbage chutes from each flat , only self driven electric cars (
like the one , Shri Modi rode in Madsar City ) , escalators everywhere , 24
hour supply of water that you can drink straight out of the tap ,.......etc etc
"
But then they look around and say :
" No , no ! We don't want a Smart City
Just give us a
Simple City
A city where ,
* Roads may be only 2 lane wide but without
potholes
* Footpaths are only 3 feet wide but free of
hawkers
* No garbage-chutes in every flat but neither
garbage dumps on streets
* No electric cars but neither smoke belching
diesel / kerosene rickshaws
* No drinkable water from tap but neither water
full of dirt / dung / germs
* No high rise residential towers but nor
sprawling slums with open drains
* No solar power but certainly garbage
generated power / bio-fuel
* No zipping metros but neither endless traffic
jams
* No city-wide free Wi-Fi but nor bundles of
cables hanging from poles
* No swanky office blocks but Sulabh Sauchalayas on every corner
* No escalators everywhere but plenty of
overhead bridges on roads
* No fancy shopping malls but hawkers only in hawking zones
* No sprawling
golf courses but playgrounds for kids on every street
* OK if no IIM but several Industrial Training
Institutes ( ITI ) in my city
* Instead of 5 star hospitals , let there be
many public health centers "
Citizens are saying :
To convert 98 cities into " Smart Cities ",
will take years and cost lakhs of crores of Rupees , where a 500 sq ft flat
will sell for Rs 5 crores !
To transform 900 cities into " Simple Cities
", can be done in months and cost , a few crores each - and I don't need to uproot my family / find
a job
Let us get our priorities right !
I hope the Ministers / Municipal Corporators / Town
Planners are listening !
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hemen parekh
03 Sept 2015
B2BmessageBlaster
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Make
Yourself Heard
Dear Visitor :
It is time for YOU to speak up - and demand that YOU
are heard
By emailing this suggestion - incorporating your OWN
improvements - to the following Policy Makers
( Just multiple
copy all the following Email IDs into the Recipient column of your Outlook and
Copy / paste this suggestion in the Message Box ) :
narendramodi1234@gmail.com;
38ashokroad@gmail.com;ajaitley@del5.vsnl.net.in;
jayant.sinha19@sansad.nic.in;piyush.goyal@gov.in;nitin.gadkari@nic.in;
spprabhu1@rediffmail.com;bandaru@sansad.nic.in;smritizirani@nic.in;nsitharaman@nic.in;
ravis@sansad.nic.in;sureshprabhu@irctc.co.in;prakash.j@sansad.nic.in;secy-ipp@nic.in;
amitabh.kant@nic.in; shaktikanta.das@nic.in; rsecy@nic.in; adhia1981@gmail.com;
ceo-niti@nic.in; atul-chaturvedi@nic.in; uma.bharati@sansad.nic.in;
d.pradhan@sansad.nic.in; rprudy.office@gmail.com; rudypr@rediffmail.com;
eam@mea.gov.in; mosvks@mea.gov.in; mvnaidu@sansad.nic.in; mnaqvi@sansad.nic.in;
rao.inderjit@sansad.nic.in; mljoffice@gov.in; sadananda.gowda@sansad.nic.in;
ministerminority@gov.in; najmah@sansad.nic.in; minister-ca@nic.in;
ramvilas.paswan@sansad.nic.in; gandhim@sansad.nic.in;
akumar-alpha@sansad.nic.in; jpnadda@sansad.nic.in; hm.moca@nic.in;
geete@sansad.nic.in; simratbadal@yahoo.com; ns.tomar@nic.in;
rmsingh@sansad.nic.in; tc.gehlot@sansad.nic.in;
dr.harshvardhan@sansad.nic.in
No comments:
Post a Comment