tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338528690750426184.post3290875833004179460..comments2017-03-03T04:09:04.545-08:00Comments on Smart Cities: Whose right-of-way is this?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184258998374776975noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338528690750426184.post-83681097019309083822017-03-03T04:09:04.545-08:002017-03-03T04:09:04.545-08:00It is the job of the municipal bodies and the poli...It is the job of the municipal bodies and the police to make sure that the Right Of Way is maintained or 'sustained' as the Right Of Way only. Unfortunately, these two setups are themselves corrupt, callous, laid back, and in fact hands in glove. You lodge a complaint and you land in deep trouble. Indians are hugely disorganised, very immoral, quite shameless, are educated idiots, or idiots anyway, and so on. If you point out to a resident about the encroachment, e.g., then this criminal preaches you about 'Community Feeling'! Can you believe that? If you complain to the authorities they actually look carefully at the written text of the complaint and deliberately find a word or phrase or sentence and then 'extract' it and then quote something else out of context and the complaint is sent to a different department and then phoosh. Alternatively they give a bogus or vague or simply dishonest response. And there is no simple way to chargesheet them, though you can do it if you pursue. They also have their connected mafia. They'll try to 'take you out'. So the answer is to have marshalls appointed by the public themselves which can pull up these authorities and the police at every level, 'at every level'.<br />I can go on about the corruption of the corrupt and the travails of the upright but I guess we all know it.Brief Takeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11695426039655046697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338528690750426184.post-38295239884175292992017-03-03T02:35:51.000-08:002017-03-03T02:35:51.000-08:00Dear author, your article has been very well conce...Dear author, your article has been very well conceived, written and addresses practical issue in Indian cities. I have following thoughts: <br />(i) Local self-governments must devise a proper monitoring mechanism for construction permits and practices. <br />(ii) Political patronage of such city planning rules violations must end in making our cities livable. <br />(iii) Community policing on such practices to be promoted in case local-self governments have limited manpower for monitoring. <br />Congratulations for highlighting very important issue which is of governance, building permission, and moral duties. Anupam Kumar Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814513381036086219noreply@blogger.com