No infrastructure project ever gets implemented because it involves displacing a lakhs of people mostly from sheduled castes and minorities and Bangladeshis.
Everone knows that the afore mentioned people form the major vote bank for political parties.
Indian's cannot handle freedom. Indians only listen to fear and power.
GOvernment should implement all development projects forcefully even if it involves mobilising lakhs of people out of the city.
A soft approach to this infrastructure problem will never yield anything. Bring in bull-dozers and destroy everything that is built illegally.
Forcefully sterlize all beggers ont he street. They dont deserve to have kids. Tax heavily middle class and upper middle class people with more than one kid.
But can the government do that? Obviously NO. They dont have the guts to implement anything.
So to all Indians - Get ready and brace yourselves for a million more Slumdog type movies from westerners.
Re: Mumbai - The big Trash Can
by Tariq on Nov 11, 2009 10:51 PM
sterilise the poor??!! @#$% you There r ways to handle the people in power, don't target the powerless YES, implement projects...displace people, rehabilitate them, with resolve! I AGREE there's no political will, but what r u n me doing bout it??
Re: Who names
by Chandrashekhar Kulkarni on Nov 11, 2009 07:22 PM
a panel comprising the World Meteorological Organisation, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Panel on Tropical Cyclones has been maintaining a long list of names for cyclones.
It agreed at a meeting in 2000 in Muscat on naming tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.
Naming of tropical cyclones over the northern part of the Indian Ocean began from September 2004.
The names the countries in the panel suggest are sequenced in such a way that each country gets a chance to have its suggested name used.
Prior to Aila, which means dolphin, suggested by the Maldives, there was ‘Bijli’ of India. Before that, there was ‘Nisha’ from Bangladesh.
The one after Aila will be Myanmar’s Phyan, followed by Oman’s Ward. Then will come Laila, proposed by Pakistan. Sri Lanka’s ‘Bandu’ and Thailand’s ‘Phet’ will follow Laila.
