Azam Khan orders demolition of "poor quality" houses built during BSP regime.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/azam-khan-orders-demolition-of-poor-quality-houses-built-during-bsp-regime-213828
Ads of Chief Ministers' achievements in the fields of power, water supply, housing to poor, keep surfacing in national dailies with unnerving frequency. And not to mention the plain irritation of looking at a full first page advertisement of the achievements of a party in power in a particular state first thing in the morning.
I often ask myself why aren't Indian cities able to emulate the progress in urban development of their Latin American and South African counterparts. After all, they share similar pasts, comparable socio-economic development statistics and demographic profiles. And I have always reached the same point and stopped: the politics in cities of India. Our politicians and our governance structure do not allow our cities to grow beyond petty issues of partisan politics and vested interests of those in power.
I feel it is our fault that these men are in power. We have voted them to power, or worse still, we haven't voted at all.
Local governance is, according to me, the root cause of why our cities are the way they are. And governance also happens to be a topic I have a lot of opinions on. I shall not be doing justice to it through only one post, and so, more on that later.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/azam-khan-orders-demolition-of-poor-quality-houses-built-during-bsp-regime-213828
Ads of Chief Ministers' achievements in the fields of power, water supply, housing to poor, keep surfacing in national dailies with unnerving frequency. And not to mention the plain irritation of looking at a full first page advertisement of the achievements of a party in power in a particular state first thing in the morning.
I often ask myself why aren't Indian cities able to emulate the progress in urban development of their Latin American and South African counterparts. After all, they share similar pasts, comparable socio-economic development statistics and demographic profiles. And I have always reached the same point and stopped: the politics in cities of India. Our politicians and our governance structure do not allow our cities to grow beyond petty issues of partisan politics and vested interests of those in power.
I feel it is our fault that these men are in power. We have voted them to power, or worse still, we haven't voted at all.
Local governance is, according to me, the root cause of why our cities are the way they are. And governance also happens to be a topic I have a lot of opinions on. I shall not be doing justice to it through only one post, and so, more on that later.
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