We wish you a Health and Very Happy New Year.
It’s been a long time we have posted any article. It was a very busy and eventful year.
This year we will try to keep up our effort to blog consistently and contribute to our society.
What are you going to contribute to the society and our country? Here are a few obvious suggestions for New Year resolutions which will help us to make a better society.
Environmental
On Road
Delhi Metro
Tell us what are your resolutions for year 2011.
An Indian Diplomat has been caught working as a mole in Pakistan. As per the report by one of the leading English news channels “Times Now” Madhuri Gupta posted as 2nd Secretary level Diplomat, Press & Information Wing, Indian High Commission in Islamabad was passing sensitive information to Pakistan Information passed was related to India’s strategic interest. The lady officer has been swaying off the information for around two years. The Lady Officer is detained & questioned in India after being brought back to India in the guise of needing her for the SAARC summit.
The Common Wealth Games are going to start this year in October 2010. It is changing everyone’s live in the capital. Somethings are getting better and somethings are getting worse. One of the badly affecting things is animals’ life.
There was a rally held in Defence of Animals at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on April 24, 2010 from 4.30pm to 9pm. This rally was mainly focused on the violation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960 and other laws in force in the country.
A number of municipal bodies capture stray dogs in the most cruel manner. It causes serious injuries to them. They are either killed or released outside the city. They die a horrible death there because of unfamiliar to the area and they don’t know where to find food. They are also killed by local dogs.
The rally was focused on five specific issues:
- The need to give a massive, countrywide boost to the canine birth control program – the only effective method of sharply reducing the presence of stray dogs in streets and public places, and the provision of enough funds for expanding infrastructure, training personnel and meeting all other expenses connected with the program.
- The need for strong and effective action against illegal slaughter houses.
- The need for strict implementation of Cattle/Livestock Transport Rules.
- The prevention of atrocities on street animals and the promotion of the emerging trend toward people taking to feeding and/or caring from them.
- The need for strong police action against people who assault, harass, abuse or intimidate those feeding and taking care of stray animals.
Spilled Garbage, Gate No. 3, Patiala House
The garbage is spilled all over but not in dustbin. I had clicked this picture just outside the Patiala House Court where rules are made but not followed.
A few days ago the Chief Minister of Delhi Ms. Sheila Dikshit had stated that the people of Delhi are to be blamed for the traffic jams in the city. She isn’t entirely wrong, when she makes such statements. We all have the tendency to break the rules for our convenience whether on the road or off the road.
Traffic Jam at ITO
Don’t we break the lane system? This is one of the most common forms of traffic violations. It may also be possible that many of us don’t even know the lane system means or what the signboards on the road stand for. We just change the lanes with least respect for other vehicles on the road. We never hesitate to overtake other vehicles from left side, which is illegal too.
Don’t we block the left turn even when it’s free? It’s something which we often encounter on Delhi roads and I’m certain that it’s an experience that holds good in most other Indian cities – the pride with which drivers block the free left turn, when they have to go straight. We just block the left lane in the sake of reaching ahead of the race. But we forget that it’s a road not a racing track. It stops the flow of traffic and more & more vehicles add to the jam.
Don’t we park at the tow away zones or near red lights? On my way home from office, there is a red light in the end of Siri fort road. Almost every day, two-three cars are always parked just before the red light and it makes that road more congested. Also people block the road on the left lane even when the signal is green for left turn.
Don’t we stop or slowdown our vehicles outside worship places? I often go to my office via Lodhi Road and I always know that I will reach late on Thursdays because Sai Baba’s temple is there. We stop our vehicles outside the temple and touch the road or bow to get the blessings of baba. But it occurs to none, the inconvenience that others might experience because of this.
A two-wheeler rider outside a temple
Don’t we go towards wrong side or take illegal U-turns?
We all can contribute to reduce traffic jams by following rules. All these efforts may not solve this problem completely but it will certainly help. And no one will be able to blame us. Whenever we are stuck in a traffic jam, we should think of all those instances when we have broken these rules and contributed to Traffic Jams.
A rare sight in India, all the vehicles have stopped before the stop line
Please share your suggestions to reduce traffic jams in the comment box below.
PS: In the next part, I will try to point the areas where government is found faulty or can extend its influence to curb jams.
Weconscious has come up by combining two words “WE” & “CONSCIOUS”. Thereby meaning, we the people who ought to be conscious about our rights & duties. We Conscious is a pious effort to highlight, show, and educate people of the various monsterheads of corruption, moral degradation and gross civic negligence that are rampant in our society. It’s an effort to highlight the illegalities we suffer on day to day basis.