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| Delhi Road near Moolchand Metro Station |
The other day, one newspaper reported that 'Connaught Place
became the 6th most expensive prime office market in the world.
According to semi-annual survey conducted by CBRE Group Inc,
an American commercial real estate company, the cost of one square foot
of prime office space at Connaught Place is $ 160. Click to read. No doubt it is a proud moment
for a capital city of India.
But all this matters little for ordinary city dwellers like
me. People like me only want three things :
- Better sewage system
- Better drinking water
- better air to breathe
On these three counts, it seems that Delhi lags behind.
Sewage system is terribly in shambles. There is a great shortage of
drinking water and water tables are fast drying up around Delhi. When it
comes to fresh breathable air, on that aspect also, a lot is to be desired.
The recent US Embassy's warning for uncontrollable pollution levels in
Delhi strengthens my point. You could read that story from the Wall
Street Journal's website. click to read.
The image you are seeing above was taken from my mobile
camera today morning (2.1.14) in front of Moolchand Metro Station in South
Delhi. The road is spread with a sheet of water due to continuous rain
from the morning onwards. The reason is that the roads are not enough
gradient to send the floating water into underground drainage system
automatically. The stagnated water forced me to walk 100 mtrs more to
reach the metro station.
It is simply not the case with Delhi. Even Mumbai
floods terribly during torrential rains. There must be a mechanism by which the
rain water goes fast to the nearby drainage pipe. We can have small mesh
plates on the roads, especially in all low-lying areas where the water
stagnates during rains. This is a layman's advice from my side.
Some engineering minds must think on it and we are badly in need of
water-free roads so that vehicular traffic is not affected nor it creates any
mess to the walkers.
The present government under our able Prime Minister Sh. Modi
is doing a lot in the name of Swachch Bharat. A dream project to make 100
smart cities is also on pipeline. But Delhi badly needs a big facelift
in terms of citizen amenities and hope somebody in the corridors of power are
listening to my words !
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