Monday, November 20, 2006

NCR story continues

So I gave you all a brief history about NCR. Now that was a preface for this piece of writting.

Recently, to be precise last week Delhi and UP government entered into a deadlock much to the discomfort of commuters in NCR. The Delhi governement has denied a request by UP transport dept, to run UP transport buses in Delhi from UP satellite towns. This means that UP wanted to run UP transport corp buses from Ghaziabad and NOIDa n other towns to New delhi railway station, airport n different parts of city. This was outright unacceptable to Delhi govt (transport ministry). Delhi government objected to this. UP transport minister visited on last wednesday, better said tried to visit Delhi CM sheila dixit, but he failed. The CM cant get time for him. This furiated UP minister and he announced that if Delhi wont allow them to run their buses in Delhi, DTC buses wont be allowed to enter UP. Hell broke loose for commuters like me and thousand others, who live in NOIda,GZB and work in delhi or vice versa. It happened. From friday morning DTC buses were caught on entering in UP. To add to our woes, Delhi government instead of talking to UP govt declared that DTC buses wont ply in UP any more.
Worst-hit?? Us, the common man..citizens who cant own a vehicle of their own. Its true that private buses are playing but obviously the load has all of a sudden increased on these and private buses are not someone looks up to. Reason being the arrogance n hooligans operating them. You will have to hear them shouting, abusing, pushing n pulling passengers, which makes me sick n angry n fills more hatred for these locals of Delhi n ghaziabad n noida who dont even know "how to speak".
The midless steps by UP govt, I must say coz UP doesnot have its own city transport service. It has left this on the mercy of DTC for long and had just focussed on inter-state buses. This impasse created is causing misery and none of them are reay to relent.
I thought that at least UP gov will start rolling out buses for local ferrying after this but no. I am guessing what the UP minister is thinking? Why cant he run buses for inter city transportation? Why is he so keen on running buses to delhi, when he cant run buses in noida and ghaziabad? So silly of him.
These politicians can never do good to people. They just add to or misery. They are comfortable in their cars and seldom give a thought to citizens pleasure n comfort.
The whole concept of NCR was to create a larger metropolitan but the basic infrastructure is missing at large. If you are living in NOIDA or Gurgaon and travelling by train then you will have to cough up hard money for reaching your home or reaching dtation. The auto or taxi walas will upright decline you if you aks them about going to ggn or noida. If one in ten gets ready, he will charge you heavily. These all things are overlooked by all govts. They are not keen on providing a transport system so that one can travel freely in NCR. If this was to be done then what was the reason for creating this concept of NCR? Why dont we do away this concept then? Haryana gove is just too happy about success of Gurgaon, but is not at all worried about transport situation in gurgaon. People there have to suffer so much in absence of good transport infra. But Govt will never pay attention to this. Its happy on getting rave reviews about malls of ggn.
What knid of modern civilization is this, when we are not having transport facilities? Who the hell syas that these are world class cities? World class cities are not so, where travelloing becomes night-mare for one.
I do hope that someday this situation will get better and pray that it comes soon

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