These are turbulent times admitedly,Companies going belly up/turning turtle/turning Dodo and all. Everyone around is worried and everyone wants sometihng to be done. It becomes a classical case of too many cooks spoiling the party sometimes. We have a government which is fairly prone to such classics, it would have been funny had it not been at the expense of lives & livelihood of people.
Now out Urban development ministry wants to tax auto industry, add congestion charges, discourage private ownership of vehicles and and ask people to use public transport which is non-existant mostly or it does exist in form of blue-line buses and mumbai local with a death toll running into thousands every year.
All this at a time when automobile industry is running a battle of survival worldwide and there are about a million jobs on the brink in this country itself with whatever unemployment figure we have without this "help".
As it turnes out, another ministry in the same government is trying to help the same automaker out by encouraging government offices to buy new vehicles..
I am sorry to say but it sounds like only ministers and babus will have right to zip through and park whatever and churn-out whatever amount of smoke they wish.. all of it in public interest.
whatever happens to people working in the industries, whatever happens to thousands more added to already impossibly congested public transport, what we will have is industry churning out ambassadors for ministers and babus; a happy state to those who get rattled by people speaking out finally..
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