Slumming - Not a right term - Please change the title of the article ! Please avoid degrading people living in the slums - they are not doing so by choice - but by cruel fate, destiny ...
RE:RE:Derogatory Title
by True Indian on Jan 09, 2008 01:04 PM
Thats true.... but if you live in hut, then also you can maintain it, and the surrounding by: 1) Keep the area clean and tidy. 2) dont shit in open. 3) dont get a batallion with you. if you come alone, first make sure that you get a proper place, food and money then call other people from your Jamat. 4) Dont accept a low salary, because you are offered less, or other are taking less. due to this, cheap labours become available and create these slums.
More should be done at government level: 1) Issue id card to every person in this country. 2) there should be online system to access individual profile. 3) Any person travelling out of state (even district), has to pay a tax to the state (and to the district) he works. this money should be used to build infrastructure. For e.g. If any person (any means any) person works in Maharashtra (mumbai) from bihar or any part of country, has to pay 1000 Rs. flat tax per annum. out of this 1000, 200 goes to district administration and remaining 800 goes to state administration for keeping the surrounding clean, developing infrastructure. Every person has to carry a card, which indicates the payment of tax. Any government official should have right to check or collect the tax payment online. Same is applicable if a Maharashtra (or mumbai) resident travel outside. This will make sure that all parts of the country will develop.
RE:Derogatory Title
by Me Me on Jan 09, 2008 01:17 PM
Are you completely harebrained, do you think a man from the North is in the city out of his own free-will? It is the simplest of laws of economics that draws him to the cities, there is a demand for labour in Bombay and that draws people from all over the country to any city. Now, respect for the city, what is that, how can a slum-dweller disrespect the city when he does not een have bare minimum facilities of hygiene, he bathes in the open, defecates in the open, is that his fault. Over the years, successive governments have talked about building concrete houses with facilities for them but noting has ever come up and tell me who runs the government there in Maharashtra, how many MLAs and ministers are there in the Maharashtra Legislative assembly and the cabinet respectively? So, tell me, who is responsible for the sorry state of affairs there, the North Indians are there because there is a demand for them, the city cant run without them. And why do you think that Bombay has anything to do with the greatness of the Maharashtrians, it was not built by the Maharashtrians but was developed by the Britishers as a port city to drain India's wealth. In the prrsent Mumbai, the film industry is completely dominatd by the Punjabis and te stock market by the Gujaratis and Sindis, so why are you getting so upset, what is your linguistic/ regional community's great contribution to Mumbai? You have farmers committing suicide in Vidarbha, 30 000 of them, are the North Indians responsible
