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here is a blog of one indian who work in CHina....he compare CHina and India sometimes in his blog...here is one where he compare CHinese roads and india ones.
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TRAVELLING TO GOA
Since all of you have travelled on the Indian roads but not on the Chinese roads, along with the text here I have included pictures of the Chinese Roads...
After hackling with our Resort provider we wrested from them a holiday Half-Week . The problem with Indian hotel/resort people is that they come up with grand plans of matching the international standards but fall woefully short of delivering. They just can't live up to it. It is same with all customer services. The services at best can be described as poor. Main reason of this I think is that the people are not willing to work. We have too many managers. It's not my job is the argument we use most often. On the scrolling strip on the TV screen, I read the news "Indians are trained to duck responsibility""¦Greg Chappell. It couldn't have been said better, I would say. Somebody else is responsible and that somebody doesn't work. We criticize, we rant, we complain but we don't work.
Count the lanes
Driving past mustard fields
From Baner, after leaving our home, we drove for about ten minutes and turned left on NH4 towards Satara. We had checked many times on the net, the road we were to take Satara-Kohlapur-Belgaum and from there on to a State Highway SH30- Khanpur-Margao-Benaulim. Everything looked smooth. Smart Sulekhika wanted me to check with the travel agents the route their luxury coaches took but as always I brushed her apprehensions aside, saying that the Travel agents are just booking clerks and not the bus drivers and thus they can't tell anything. Sonny and his friends had not gone to Goa recently and as we all know India is progressing very fast and the road scene here is rapidly changing (you can say it with some reservations). However Sonny did recollect that a patch of road after Belgaum was very bad and that's why he asked us to start early.
Early for us is about noon, so we set out at around 11 O'clock. Whether Indian highways can be compared with the International ones or not depends on what one has seen, but what India is excelling at is the erection of toll gates. After every stretch of a few kilometers you find tall booths charging exorbitant sum from Indian standards. This money is supposed to go for upkeep of the stretch of the highway but how sincerely that money is utilized is anybody's guess. It's not much different from the way sweat and blood of the poor Indians has always been used by the rulers. Earlier all that was hoarded up and used in lustful pursuits and splurged on grandeur by the Rajahs,then it was looted by the British, taken to England and is all what Britain is living on, whereas now it is being looted by the elected representatives of these very people and is being piled up in the safe heavens abroad. The tragedy is that when the same man, whose every hard earned rupee is squeezed in the form of one tax or the other, these custodians of his welfare have it all free and provided for. They are exempted from levies and duties and where they are not, they devise ways to squiggle out. They even create ruckus when asked to pay.
Approaching Toll Post
Even at every toll gate there is one lane for all such "Muftkhors". This lane is also used by the toll collectors for making an extra buck. If you are willing to bypass the rules, so is he. He will let you pass through this lane at half the price and the booty thus collected is used for buying the booze which they all share. On a bigger canvas our leaders too are doing the same. In China, besides video cameras taking pictures of the traffic at clandestine and conspicuous places here and there, they are there at every lane of the Electronic Toll Collection Centre. Strategically placed they take snap shot of the vehicle's number plate without fail every time the bar lifts to let the vehicle pass. It is connected to the "Let Go" button on the toll collecting person's computer as is the automatic lever that lifts and falls. The Identity of the person manning the booth, together with the numbers of the persons to be contacted in case of complaint are displayed facing the drivers, so that you can complain or compliment about their services.
No assistant, no helper for Toll Booth attendant
Notice the four Cameras at exit...No free passes, no muftkhors...Every action is recorded
here is a blog of one indian who work in CHina....he compare CHina and India sometimes in his blog...here is one where he compare CHinese roads and india ones.
------------------------------------------------------------------
TRAVELLING TO GOA
Since all of you have travelled on the Indian roads but not on the Chinese roads, along with the text here I have included pictures of the Chinese Roads...
After hackling with our Resort provider we wrested from them a holiday Half-Week . The problem with Indian hotel/resort people is that they come up with grand plans of matching the international standards but fall woefully short of delivering. They just can't live up to it. It is same with all customer services. The services at best can be described as poor. Main reason of this I think is that the people are not willing to work. We have too many managers. It's not my job is the argument we use most often. On the scrolling strip on the TV screen, I read the news "Indians are trained to duck responsibility""¦Greg Chappell. It couldn't have been said better, I would say. Somebody else is responsible and that somebody doesn't work. We criticize, we rant, we complain but we don't work.
Count the lanes
Driving past mustard fields
From Baner, after leaving our home, we drove for about ten minutes and turned left on NH4 towards Satara. We had checked many times on the net, the road we were to take Satara-Kohlapur-Belgaum and from there on to a State Highway SH30- Khanpur-Margao-Benaulim. Everything looked smooth. Smart Sulekhika wanted me to check with the travel agents the route their luxury coaches took but as always I brushed her apprehensions aside, saying that the Travel agents are just booking clerks and not the bus drivers and thus they can't tell anything. Sonny and his friends had not gone to Goa recently and as we all know India is progressing very fast and the road scene here is rapidly changing (you can say it with some reservations). However Sonny did recollect that a patch of road after Belgaum was very bad and that's why he asked us to start early.
Early for us is about noon, so we set out at around 11 O'clock. Whether Indian highways can be compared with the International ones or not depends on what one has seen, but what India is excelling at is the erection of toll gates. After every stretch of a few kilometers you find tall booths charging exorbitant sum from Indian standards. This money is supposed to go for upkeep of the stretch of the highway but how sincerely that money is utilized is anybody's guess. It's not much different from the way sweat and blood of the poor Indians has always been used by the rulers. Earlier all that was hoarded up and used in lustful pursuits and splurged on grandeur by the Rajahs,then it was looted by the British, taken to England and is all what Britain is living on, whereas now it is being looted by the elected representatives of these very people and is being piled up in the safe heavens abroad. The tragedy is that when the same man, whose every hard earned rupee is squeezed in the form of one tax or the other, these custodians of his welfare have it all free and provided for. They are exempted from levies and duties and where they are not, they devise ways to squiggle out. They even create ruckus when asked to pay.
Approaching Toll Post
Even at every toll gate there is one lane for all such "Muftkhors". This lane is also used by the toll collectors for making an extra buck. If you are willing to bypass the rules, so is he. He will let you pass through this lane at half the price and the booty thus collected is used for buying the booze which they all share. On a bigger canvas our leaders too are doing the same. In China, besides video cameras taking pictures of the traffic at clandestine and conspicuous places here and there, they are there at every lane of the Electronic Toll Collection Centre. Strategically placed they take snap shot of the vehicle's number plate without fail every time the bar lifts to let the vehicle pass. It is connected to the "Let Go" button on the toll collecting person's computer as is the automatic lever that lifts and falls. The Identity of the person manning the booth, together with the numbers of the persons to be contacted in case of complaint are displayed facing the drivers, so that you can complain or compliment about their services.
No assistant, no helper for Toll Booth attendant
Notice the four Cameras at exit...No free passes, no muftkhors...Every action is recorded