Thursday, August 7, 2008

If I were the chief minister of Delhi..

Yeah, reminds me of the creative writing sessions in school where we were supposed to let our imagination go wild in trying to think on what the people in positions of power could do to better the situation of our country, city etc.

Now considering my low political awareness quotient, I do not know which lists (state, centre or concurrent) do these subjects fall under, but I wonder why the responsible people in the appropriate positions power cannot do anything like the following:
  1. Make laws to restrict sale of cars to households having cars in excess of the driving capacity of the household
  2. Make laws to restrict launch of the new bandwagon of small and affordable cars in cities with existing traffic congestion
  3. Restrict auto rickshaws and cycle rikshaws to operate on certain crowded streets of Delhi (like in Bombay, no autos are allowed beyond Bandra). Delhi can do with a lot more people walking greater distances.
  4. Impose a toll on cars in peak traffic times, like they do in Singapore
  5. Reward honest traffic policemen
  6. Make rural education more than just a voluntary initiative by Corporates as well as economically respectable professionals and businesses
  7. Reward rural households that are sensitive towards birth control
  8. Have a small component of income tax towards the well being of orphans in the country
  9. Organise infrastructure reforms in a manner that don't lead to disasterous increases in traffic congestion

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