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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Whose Bullshitting ???

A couple of weeks back some cracks were noticed on the Zuari Bridge. The Bridge that connects the lively South Goa to the professional North Goa.But everybody made it seem so bad, as if the bridge was about to collapse the next day, authorities were quick to react, but as usual, in their old silly ways. The bridge was declared closed for all heavy traffic and there were fingers pointing to the ferry as the alternate means of crossing the River Zuari.But it was sad to know that the ferry couldn’t reach the jetty due to low water level.Hmmmmmm....... now guess what happens next.( OK times-up, now stop guessing and start reading further to check if your guess was right )
The KTCL (Kitei Tori Chorun Lipoitole !!!) came up with a plan, they said their busses will transport people from Margao to Cortalim, then there shall be free transportation in small busses just to cross the bridge, then again the from other side of the bridge the people have to take another bus to Panaji.This so called free transport across the bridge ( if rumors are believed to be true) doesn’t come free at all as the people pay the same amount to travel as they used to pay before. So why the word FREE then ?? And if this was done to reduce the load on the bridge then how does it help to do so ??
I'm yet to try this as I’m too lazy to change three busses and so i prefer the Shuttle Service.KTCL also said they will be adding more busses to the shuttle service to help in smooth moving of the people between the two districts of the state. Just come and have a look at the queue of people waiting for the Shuttle and it gives a clear picture of how smooth it really is. The queue begins at one end of the bus-stand in Margao and reaches the other end and sometimes takes a big 'U' turn as well. And then there is a shortage of busses felt suddenly everyday which halts the queue for at least another 15 to 20 minutes. How smooth isn’t it ?? And also not forgetting those people who come and give broad smiles to people at the start of the queue and ask them to buy a ticket for them as well (they do come up with good excuses though) and so the people at the end of the queue stay at the end only (traffic jam in the queue ??). Its not over yet, to make matters worse now they allow only 23 people in the Shuttle.Dont laugh.This is done to reduce the load on the bridge.
Now comes the most interesting part, would you believe ?? these shuttle busses take 23 people only but the other busses which transport people across the bridge ( free transport) go full packed. No no no, please don’t laugh, this should be a great idea which reduces the load on the bridge, only might be our brains cant understand how it does so. I’m still struggling to find out how.If any of you people know, then please tell me also.(Check the picture below)
After knowing all this, now I really want to know who is bullshitting?
Is it the KTCL who things all Goans are fools and that they can cheat us so easily ??
Is it the Politicians who again have some hidden dirty policies of robbing us in the name of the bridge ??
Is it the press whose is not covering such issues and making people aware of what is really going on behind the scenes just because they are getting their share of the cake ??
Or is it we the people who are behaving like the three monkeys - keeping our eyes closed to what we see, shutting our ears to respond to people asking for our help to voice out these issues, and closing our mouth to keep all those words that we have to say inside us. Or is it that attitude of ours which says " Why should I bother ?? "
So i end up by asking " If we allow such thing to go on and keep on ignoring them, then in the long run, where are we heading to ??? "

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ur writings are tongue-in-cheek like some of the well-known columnists in famous dailies and magazines...with the exception being that there's no editorial khaach-khuch to bother about...superb utilisation of blog.

quoted ur post here

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