Thursday, December 25, 2008

A Crater?? A Golf hole?? No...its a manhole!!!

Want to play golf? With a much bigger hole? Don’t join any club and waste money - hit the Chennai roads - its free for all here.

This is a picture taken from one of the by lanes of Guindy industrial estate. There is a manhole (rather a crater big enough to topple a motorist) right in the middle of the road. Yeah I know - why cant the motorists find their way around this would be the question - but leaving it like is definitely not an answer. What about cars?? Well, choosing another road is a possibility, but again, leaving it like this is not an answer. Is closing a manhole so costly in Chennai?? Is it so difficult in anyway?? This manhole is open for at least 3 weeks now. And the escapists would say they did not receive any complaints. Do they need a complaint to do every damn job of theirs?? So if this has to be corrected only after a complaint, is leaving the manhole open OK by the rules then??

I generally feel (and everybody contributing to this blog too feel the same way) that change has to come from within before we start pointing out changes to the system. But Honestly, change has to come from "within the people" who run the system before we try to change the system itself.

1 comment:

Aswin Kini said...

I donno who said this, but this is one nice proverb, "Be the change that you want to see", guess this stands true for civilians as well as administrators. The civilians can contribute by not spitting and littering rubbish on the streets, while the administrators can contribute by JUST DOING THEIR JOB WELL. Let's see what the future has in store?