Haldi, you are too polite on Twitter. Many of the armchair highway engineers you have politely engaged with won't be able to draw a fucking free body diagram.
I made the same comment a while back in some thread on how tribal villages look clean and structured and bright minus sewer part.... But it's very threatened and a lot of them are changing at light speed as money moves around them bringing in nonsensical unplanned construction to replace what they have. Plastic is everywhere, in north gutka packs and similar....what can people do? There is no trash collection in rural nor landfill management by districts nor civility to not litter
Japanese are on another level Man. Thats whats needed. Gutka is not common in NW. In Places like Himachal Jammu Punjab and even Haryana , Gutka is not eaten by natives - its kinda looked upon. Gutka brand ambassadors from UP Bihar Gujarat Maharshtra etc mark their presence in rest of country.
Most PSU/Defence residential townships are better planned.
umm its not civility but rural folks have been used to old lifestyle, where everything thrown to dumping place would be consumed by wildlife and stray. plastic in their life is now a new entrant in their lives where old practices fail. For that they would need city like garbage mgmt. Thats only possible if rural income grows more
Well, rural isn't any type of paradise and there is plenty of garbage culture there too. On an avg Indian subcontinent and converted countries are most dirty outside africa. Very hard to deny this at a national level. I am from western state btw
Yes I go to the US a lot. The road network in India despite all the progress is still pretty inferior in quality, drive experience, safety, wide connectivity, exit/entry from/to the highway etc. American highway and road network is amazing in general. They have top quality roads even in sparse populated areas. 90% of American roads are of international standard with proper lane markings , intersections down to a neighborhood level. That kind of road traffic engineering down to a small street in even a run down neighborhood is pretty impressive to achieve. And the US has thousands of towns with roads well maintained in all of them and that too uniformly lane marked across the entire country. Even the home addresses are very systematic. Then they have district roads which are better quality than our expressways. infrastructure in the US except passenger railways is superb. I don’t know about China. i dont think they are anywhere close to what Amreeka has achieved in the road sector, down to a small village. I was in a village of just 1000 people and even there road intersections had proper traffic lights, clear street signs, well marked turn lanes, stop signs, and exit/entry to highways all with proper grade separated ramps. They have invested massively in infrastructure over the years.
Civic sense has a chance when you have a culture you can identify, in USA and west it was there in general, so most things still have some order but they have chaos in future as they deviate from that homogenous society into a land of chootiyas. In India, our order was broken down and now oppsition outside bjp is just antiBharat and so are the people for most part.....actually I think rural people both educated and uneducated are some of the worst offenders in littering and other things. Granted they don't have trash collection or landfille but even when they go to other places they litter. Just trash parents raising more trash....
This is all started with the claims that India has the 2nd largest paved road network in the world. To me that sounded a fake claim as US and China have to be the first and second just because of the massive investments these two countries have made across their entire territories including all island territories. The US has world class roads even in Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital, has better roads than Delhi) which is a US territory and not a state even. It takes crazy amounts of capital and maintenance investments to get to that level of road excellence. Note south eastern US has pretty much the same climactic conditions as India - it rains heavily. Yet the urban roads and highways are way better than our roads/highways. Need to figure out more ways of achieving excellence in our road network, including making them safe and fit for high quality driving. Hopefully another decade of massive road and urban infrastructure investments will get us there. First goal is to make all our cities down to tier 3 cities orderly, clean, high quality of living, with excellent air, road and rail connectivity. A program like BharatMaala is needed for urban infrastructure development to massively overhaul our cities to world class standards.
I heard that gutka-paan woh kaathe hein, jinke pait mein chooha daudtha hai ya naashe ke bina labor kaam nahi ho patha. It is to hide hunger - not sure how true it is.
The claim is 100% bullshit and does not pass any basic common sense test. What india classifies as a road is things that do not exist in both USA and China. In both country, even village and rural roads are properly built to 2 lane + paved shoulders with proper lane markings. In India majority of rural roads are just a layer of asphalt. Granted previously it was mud road so it is still a big improvement, but the government is making a big mistake not properly building these rural roads to high standards from the beginning, especially with vehicle sales skyrocketing.
True. There is no option but to modernize and urbanize villagers. Like I said simply talking won't do. You need a bharatmala type program with a hundred billion dollars initial budget to bring our 7000 odd towns/cities to world class standards first. The question is when we will start doing this? Maybe after the economy reaches $5-6 trillion. I don't see any dedicated budgets and programs for tackling urbanization and improving living standards of villagers through a massive centrally funded and municipal bonds program just like NHAI is doing for roads until 2030. The reason I don't see it is because it will take 3 or 4 years just to 100% saturate programs like rural roads mission, jal jeevan mission, a decent mileage of expressways, railway modernization, port modernization, 100% electricity and gas connections, rural health missions, digital missions etc. Some parts of select cities and towns will get modernized to a very good standard (due to Amrut and smart city missions but these have low budgets and happens only in select areas) but this won't be methodical and extensive across India like what NHAI is doing/will do in roads. We simply do not have the budget for it.
For the first time, I have seen any party spell out details of urban management. The need to administer cities in a very modern way with smart people that can do world class urban planning, redevelopment of dilapidated streets, buildings; long term infrastructure investments etc is something that for the very first time since independence we are actually seeing in a party’s manifesto. Good start but there are moronic state parties and commies with low IQ leaders that will resist or slow down these reforms. Modiji has to slap them with an iron hand, else nothing worthwhile will change at the city/town levels.
Before 2000s, Indian cities were like those of Sub Sahara Africa. It's been just 2 decades since our municipalities.
Total bs, even bramhans that perform shraddh karma or sitting in inner sanctum of kashi vishwanath temple is chewing tobbacco....kashi is exception if you know the legends behind it as anything goes there but prayag raj and pretty much every place in UP, Bihar and to a lesser extent MP. Its just something they chew...you are from Lucknow, you should know better unless you don't really live there anymore
This I agree to a certain extent, can't go from 0 to 100 in most things instantaneously, just that character of rural is being lost forever. Rural does not look good in most places as they lost that blend in surroundings feel now replaced by fugly constructions. Not to mention quarrying, deforestation, lakes being plotted, sand mafia doing the rest.
