COMMENTRY ON NEWS-9: THE DILAPIDATING STATE OF BANGALORE'S INFRUSTRUCTURE
I was on News-9 today (June 2nd 2009) commenting on the dilapidating state of infrastructure in Bangalore. Recently rains captured the life of 6 year old Abhishek, which was extremely tragic and absolutely unacceptable. The BBMP, or the primary organization responsible for this lapse was caught napping at the wheel. Their top officials were not even ready to appear in front of the media to apologize. Here are some points that I made.
1. LACK OF PLANNING: Unfortunately Bangalore (and many metros in India) do not even have updated underground maps of drains and sewage systems, which is very disappointing. It's the responsibility Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP to get on this job immediately so that search and rescue operations can go on smoothly in times of emergency.
2. NO EXCLUSIVE SEARCH AND RESUCE TEAMS FOR EMERGENCIES: The BBMP has no team who is assigned solely to emergencies like this, which is again very sad. It's the duty of organizations like BBMP is to have top quality search and rescue teams with world class equipment, after all they are using our tax money!
3. BBMP recently took out half page and quarter page ads boasting how they had record tax collection --- WHERE'S ALL THAT MONEY GOING IF THEY CANNOT PROVIDE THE CITIZENS OF BANGALORE SOME BASIC AMENITIES!
I AM URGING ALL BANGALOREANS TO GO ONLINE AND SIGN THIS PETITION TO BE SENT TO THE BBMP. GO ONLINE, READ THE PETITION AND SIGN IT: CLICK HERE
ONLINE LINK TO THE PETITION: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/BBMP2009/petition.html
THE MORE PEOPLE THAT SIGN THE PETITION, THE MORE POWERFUL THE MESSAGE. LET IT BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME, AND LET US ALL TAKE A FEW MINUTES OUT OF YOUR BUSY SCHEDULE AND FORWARD THIS PETITION LINK TO PEACE LOVING BANGALOREANS SO THAT THEIR VOICE IS HERD LOUD AND CLEAR. SO PLEASE FORWARD THIS LINK TO MORE CONCERNED BANGALOREANS TO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE BBMP.
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