Tuesday, September 08, 2009

22K crore!!! that's lot

Quick Q - how many zero's in 22000 crores? Let me think .. 1 crore is 10^7 i.e 10000000. So 22000 crores is 22,000,000,0000. Whew .. can't count it with 10 fingers.

This is the money that BBMP wants to spend making some random flyovers and elevated roads all around the city. In the end, we will be left with no trees and a lot of short sighted, badly planned grey concrete blocks around the city, directly blowing smoke into the properties around the elevated roads. Not to mention the fact, that if this ambitious project takes off, we will have to endure excrutiating pain on our roads due to the construction and blockages. This is in addition to the already clogged roads due to Namma Metro.

So the question everybody is asking, will this grand plan complement the Metro rail project or will it jostle with the metro for attention, space and the money that is being allocated? We need some clear direction, plans and transperancy from the government in this regard

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