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No need to panic..nothing to worry

June 29, 2009 posted by indiatime |

India’s capital city has been plagued with water and electricity problems for last several days. Sheila Dixit, the chief minister, didn’t bring in much relief, when she told Delhi’s residents that their city was prepared to face the power crisis. For many residents, the power crisis has already been going on for days if not weeks, and thus the power disconnect was evident not just in the electrical overhead lines but also in the corridors of power.

That begs the next almost inevitable question of how India is ever going to cope with such crises, when very soon, most of India’s population is about to shift from its villages to its cities. Urbanization experts are predicting that the largest rural country in the world is soon about to become the largest urban country in the world.

If the urban migration cannot be slowed or halted, the resource crises, such as ones for water or electricity will soon engulf most other pressing issues of national importance and national security. And the total dependence on nature, like the current crisis with delayed monsoon winds, highlights how delicate the situation is.

One wonders where the geniuses in the planning commission are when, for the last six decades, everybody including newborn Indian babies have known about these things. India, the world’s soon-to-be most populated country has ridiculously pathetic infrastructural challenges, the kind of which, most of the rest of the developing or developed countries overcame decades ago.

A case in example is in India’s most advanced city which today, is bragging about an over-the-water bridge being opened to the public this week after an agonizing wait of 10 years, when the neighboring China and Japan built several more bridges like that in less than half the time and spanning more than several multiples in length.

So one truly wonders what the chief ministers or cabinet level central ministers are smoking when they keep telling the citizens that the country is prepared to handle water, power or food crises.

“…There is absolutely no need for any panic or worry. This trend of delayed monsoon activity is nothing new. As Agriculture Minister at the Centre, and in Maharashtra before that, I have seen such a trend. Even last year there were good rains in the beginning. After that there was a lull for a week. Again it started raining and again stopped for one to two weeks. Thereafter it continued to rain heavily…” the agriculture Minister told the media.

The food minister promises there won’t be a drought. The science minister promises the monsoon winds will eventually manage to find their way to India. The Defense minister promises India is prepared to handle national security as never before. The chief ministers promise their states are prepared to handle crises they’re already in. Cricket team captains promise their teams are fittest and readiest to become world champions. Bollywood item girl Rakhi Sawant promises she wants to get married to one of the 16 eligible bachelors on India’s copy of the Bachelorette show.

Man, are we screwed or what.


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