"Pothole kills woman; daughter booked for driving bike rashly"!
The news has been making news on media and the more powerful social media in last couple of days.
The hue and cry forced authorities to take cognisance of the Voice-of-Customer and get back to business of governance.
One of the responses was apprehensive of the (road) "contractors having political clout" which is why the contractors go scot free. "They all do! how else can they charge huge money and yet the roads develop potholes within weeks? govt/babus dont care how long the roads stand quality test as long as tenders are passed and money changes hands!" the response said.
No doubt that the steering is in our hands which should be able to save us ourselves off from the extrinsic hurdles like the one making news above.
But there is certainly some truth in the response that referred to the "contractors having political clout". Many of them do have! The system helps them to do it by design!
It's an open secret that the steps on the corresponding ladder are as follows:
1/ Corrupt and powerful political leaders promote their 'trusted' lieutenants (party workers) as contractors in partnership. This is especially rampant in municipalites and is perhaps the lowest organized entry point for would-be political leaders.
2/ The nexus earns high margins by delivering shoddy work (if at all they do) hand-in-gloves with corrupt Babus.
3/ Both finance themselves handsomely to the next election. You may see gold chains weighing in kilos around necks on various hoardings as an evidence.
4/ Both become more powerful and the cycle continues back to step-1 until the next generation or their kith and kins take over elections. You may see all of them together on hoardings including their "new born ones" now a days.
(Caveat.. There are good politicians, party workers as well as good Babus but very few in millions.)
What do you do now?
The steering to vote them out is still in our hands but it needs to be steered with more force than 'theirs'. Hope we're able to do so soon!
Until then good job done social media for good cause!
