What is corruption? While people try to blame the powerful and the politicians of corruption I believe that everyone is corrupt to an extent. While the people tend to think that it needs to be stopped from the top I believe it needs to be stopped from the bottom.
Any violation needs to be punished or penalised and in order to avoid the action ends up in some form of corruption. Violation of the building plan, Violation of the footpath, Parking violations, jumping a signal, driving in the wrong direction in a one way are some of the very basic violations that most people can relate to.
Everyone violates the rules to an extent as it is accepted. We pay a speed fee to get what is lawful, done quickly. Some people with power, influence and money start misusing the rules, some others abuse the rules. Now people get really angry but helpless when the rules are abused. They tend to be irritated when the rules are misused. Everyone accepts that a little bit of violation here and there and is ok. THIS is the main problem.
Similar to drugs or drinking what starts of as a little violation ends up in being misused and abused. People start believing that they are not doing any wrong and THAT is when it becomes a problem. So at the lowest level the rules need to be simple and enforced completely. Whether it is a red light when a vehicle has to stop or a no parking where we park the vehicle, going in a one way, getting the violation approved or even still build in violation of the approval. Just doing a survey of building violation will tell how much bribes have passed hands.
An example of a speed fee would be bribing to get a valid work done out of turn and a misuse would be to bribe to get approval even though there are violations. Create problems to someone else to benefit yourself would be abuse.
In fact most corrupt would be happy if the violations are many so it helps provide 'solutions' for a 'fee' which is corruption!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Beautification of the City
The city has a lot of things that need cleaning up. When we choose to observe we see enough ugliness around. It is probably that our mind has got used to certain levels of dirt and ugliness. The cleaning needs to be targeting towards the three sense organs associated with Sight, Smell and Noise.
The govt initiative on cleaning up the walls, plastering and then having artists do theme paintings is a very good idea and maybe someone's 'Wild thought' which I welcome. We need to get the pavements in a walkable condition with no obstructions. Need to start identifying roads that are easy to clear of everything including wires and we should do that first. If we can allow the trees to grow around these roads even better. These will help the city LOOK clean.
We have the sewers, the exhausts from the vehicles, the road side acting as a bathroom which results in smell that makes us hold our breath. While we beatify the outside walls of the parks or paint the fence and roads it would be good to grow flowering plants and trees along the roads to negate some of the gabbu vasine. Notice here I am not saying remove the smell as that will be a bigger effort and that is what we have failed to do so long. So outdo it with better smelling flowers or some samrani smoke. I believe that when we burn the dried leaves or rubber (burning rubber should be banned!) we should try to use the fire to emit a better smell by using healthy additives like samrani or say a insect repellant.
The noise pollution is a bigger problem as it will be difficult to mask it unless every person wears earmuffs. Here I guess we would need a combination of preventing the noise and also masking at each user level. I think we should use technology here to have headphone based earmuffs with noise reduction. That would be great if a Bose, Sony or a Phillip would come up with the noise cancellation but hear people talking or a honk in a lower tone. For a person walking on the streets it should be similar to a person sitting inside a vehicle with the windows raised and AC ON as a minimum experience.
We may categorize the reasons as not enough clean toilets, not easy way of disposing dry leaves, too much honking, not enough resources both people and money to have a good looking view and so on. We have to solve these by Wild thoughts which I am sure that as aam jantha we can come up with if we put our collective thoughts together.
The govt initiative on cleaning up the walls, plastering and then having artists do theme paintings is a very good idea and maybe someone's 'Wild thought' which I welcome. We need to get the pavements in a walkable condition with no obstructions. Need to start identifying roads that are easy to clear of everything including wires and we should do that first. If we can allow the trees to grow around these roads even better. These will help the city LOOK clean.
We have the sewers, the exhausts from the vehicles, the road side acting as a bathroom which results in smell that makes us hold our breath. While we beatify the outside walls of the parks or paint the fence and roads it would be good to grow flowering plants and trees along the roads to negate some of the gabbu vasine. Notice here I am not saying remove the smell as that will be a bigger effort and that is what we have failed to do so long. So outdo it with better smelling flowers or some samrani smoke. I believe that when we burn the dried leaves or rubber (burning rubber should be banned!) we should try to use the fire to emit a better smell by using healthy additives like samrani or say a insect repellant.
The noise pollution is a bigger problem as it will be difficult to mask it unless every person wears earmuffs. Here I guess we would need a combination of preventing the noise and also masking at each user level. I think we should use technology here to have headphone based earmuffs with noise reduction. That would be great if a Bose, Sony or a Phillip would come up with the noise cancellation but hear people talking or a honk in a lower tone. For a person walking on the streets it should be similar to a person sitting inside a vehicle with the windows raised and AC ON as a minimum experience.
We may categorize the reasons as not enough clean toilets, not easy way of disposing dry leaves, too much honking, not enough resources both people and money to have a good looking view and so on. We have to solve these by Wild thoughts which I am sure that as aam jantha we can come up with if we put our collective thoughts together.
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