SOCIAL INITIATIVE FOR A GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD
SIGN Takes Up The Job Of Elected Representatives
Pavements
are left gaping after any civil work for months, uprooted trees are lying
unattended, broken and dead after rain or storm, obstructing traffic and adding
to the woes of the increasing traffic in the colony, markets are stinking from
days of uncleared garbage and waterlogged areas, raising alarming risks of
bacterial and viral outbreaks.
Encroached
and dirty pavements have been a regular feature from time immemorial with bribe
ruling the roost for all encroachers doing brisk business and not a care in the
world for rules and regulations.
Residents
alas, are left with no option, but to take up the shovels in their hands, and
do make shift repair of public roads, lest any resident/child/senior citizen
may just accidently fall into the gorges created by the rain gods.
And
this is what SIGN members did on a Sunday morning, to temporarily close the
gaping holes in the main road opposite Shyama Prasad Govt School in B Block.
Members, with their hands, mixed cement and stone chips and spread over the
holes with shovels and large stones.
This is obviously a temporary solution, which may again cave in under
the pressure of torrential rains.
Such
a sorry state of affairs, that we have to pay taxes through our noses and then
also mend roads with our money! This is the present and who knows, could be the
future as well, when the state govt has hijacked all welfare activities,
without even a shadow of guilt or regret.
We
wonder, how much money the govt and the authorities want to and need to amass,
at the expense of the lives of the residents of the colony. God save us!
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