It starts with the towing people,
who are hand in glove with the police men stationed @ various places of
Bangalore in the guise of protecting the common man in Bangalore! These
towers, who has the very dignified qualities of the professional rowdies just
‘LIFT’ any vehicle from anywhere they deem fit, the SOLE CRITERION being THEIR
IDEA OF NON PARKING AREA! These rowdy like people ALWAYS have a
penchant for the vehicles registered in other states which come to Bangalore as
tourist vehicles etc, when it comes to towing!
Whenever they see an ‘another’
state vehicle parked anywhere in Bangalore, they jump out of their towing
vehicles & lift it off the ground & put it inside their towing vehicle,
to be GONE IN 60 SECONDS! When one sees the perfection & the
quickness of their action one SURELY doubts whether they are EX
JAILBIRDS who finished their FINISHING COURSE in the prison,
BUILDING MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS with the jail mates – In their
case their jail mate policemen!
When the ‘ANOTHER STATE MAN’ (ASM –
Sounds like ‘ASSAM?!) finds his ‘ANOTHER STATE VEHICLE’ (ASV!)
disappeared into the thin air, from the parked position, with all the other ‘STATE
VEHICHLES’ (SVs!) parked in the same area with him non disappeared,
a SHELL SHOCKED ASM is ALWAYS told by a Divine Presence There
(DPT!) that the tower has come & GONE IN 60 SECONDS! And,
then, he will ALWAYS be directed to an X or Y police station nearby that
he thrusts 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 or 1000 Indian Rupees (That
dependents on the ASM’s gift of gab, language efficiency, size of the vehicle
& a lot of other things!) into the Black Hole Pockets (BHP!)
of the Tow Rowdy – Police Nexus (TRPN!) to get his ASV back!
The MG Road portion, on the Deccan Herald side, the
connection road between the MG Road & Church Street near the LIC Building, the
road side near the Commercial Street signal & various other road sides all
over Bangalore where the bikes are parked, the ‘Illegal Parking Fee
Collectors’ (IPFCs!) & the police have Real Time Association
(RTA!); and, it has been going on for a large number of years! THE
SHAME of the IPFCs & their ILLEGAL fee collection, WITH THE ‘CLEAR
& PRESENT’ SUPPORT OF THE BANGALORE POLICE has NEVER been effectively
wiped off from the face of Bangalore!
The Autowallahs of Bangalore are one of
the WORST KINDS in India, SHAMING the Image Bangalore
(IB!)! They thrive well on the FEAR they create in
the minds of the commuters with the use of FOUL & AGGRESSIVE LANGUAGE
(FAL!) which they use more often than not to intimidate a
logically & legally correct traveler! The various governments which vie
with each other to increase the auto fare, bus fare, excise duty & other myriad
things incessantly, TILL DATE, ‘NEVER’ tried enough to mitigate the
unruly mob of the Autowallahs, Shaming Bangalore in a
very BIG
way!
The roads with innumerable pot holes, slabless
pavements, where human beings are SUPPOSED to walk, uncovered man holes
on the most prominent roads of Bangalore, intermittent & senseless Road
Damaging Work (RDW!) done by the water & waste water departments of
Bangalore Mahanagara Palike etc all throw SHAME on the Image Bangalore,
nonstop!
Inaccurate & Inefficient Traffic
System (IITS!) –Where one SURELY finds the
wrong signal or out dated signal boards scattered across the width &
breadth of the metro city!- ‘THOROUGHLY’ implemented in Bangalore
makes it a city where the policemen can take a couple of 100 rupee notes, any
time, from the pocket of the people who visit the city with their vehicles! And,
the SHAME graph goes up & up!
Signal jumping is so rampant
that it is the law abiding vehicle owner who suffers the most while all the Signal
Jumpers (SJs!) reach their destinations hours ahead of him, jumping the SO
CALLED TRAFFIC SIGNALS OF SHAME (TSS!) IN BANGALORE! One
who visits Bangalore can’t go back from the city without, at the
least once, noticing the ‘WORLD FAMOUS’ LURKING POLICEMEN OF
BANGALORE (LPB!) who lie waiting SLYLY around the corner of
the Bangalore Roads, in the guise of ‘CHECKING’ the vehicles
passing by & earning ‘SOME’ paisa for their ‘Chai-Pani’! IT
IS A REAL ‘SHAME’ ON THE IMAGE OF BANGALORE!
The bus drivers & conductors of BMTC,
who compete neck to neck with the Infamous Autowallahs (IAs!) for
the prime position in ARROGANCE & FLEECING THE COMMUTERS ‘ALSO’
add to the Bangalore Shame Index (BSI!)! They don’t EVEN
spare those who use BMTC passes to travel in the night AS they
consider it their Constitutional Right to deny permission to board the
BMTC bus they drive in the night, EVEN though the passenger carries a valid
BMTC Pass; they don’t shy away from ARGUING & FIGHTING with
the night time passengers, creating some excuses, in the HOPE of EXTRACTING ‘SOME
CHAI-PANI PAISA’ (SCPP!) for him & his family, making the SHAME
Index soar high!
Shaming Bangalore is an EVER continuous
Shame Saga….! The Commuter Friendly (CF!) BMTC
buses which ‘ONLY’ think about the commuter comfort ‘rarely stops’
infront of the Cantonment Railway station to facilitate Aggressive
Fleecing of the Autowallahs! The Citizen Friendly Governments (CFGs!)
of all colours & hues ALWAYS kept a blind eye on this grave
issue which has been in existence for quite some time now! For ‘NOT
STOPPING THE BMTC BUSES’ in front of the Cantonment Railway Station ‘SOMEONE’
has been receiving HUGE kick backs,
all these years @ the expense of the Common Man!
Again, the Commuter Friendly BMTC buses
contribute HEAVILY towards SHAMING BANGALORE! They stop their
services ‘WHENEVER & WHEREVER’ they like with hundreds of ‘common
men’ stranded on the roads of the BMTC ‘SHAMED’ BANGALORE, ‘particularly’,
in the night time! After ‘9’ in the evening, finding a BMTC bus to
one’s destination becomes exactly equal to hitting a jackpot in the state
sponsored lottery gamble!
In a SMART attempt to FISH in the puddled
waters, BMTC, by 9 in the evening, ‘SHELVES’ all the ordinary
buses from the streets & run ‘ONLY’ AC Volvo Buses, with AC switched
off (For long time periods – “Smart, No?!”!) that the common
man be FORCED to board these expensive buses, shelling out more of his
& her TAX DEDUCED EARNINGS!
And, everyone, including the Citizen Friendly
Governments (CFGs!), pretends that BMTC
buses do all these SHAMING BANGALORE things on their own & no human
being is part of all this wholesome CHEATING & SHAMING as it is Virtual
Reality (VR!) that rules the metro city called the Silicon Valley of Asia
or Bangalore or Bangaluru!
Another thing which ‘SURELY’ adds to
the Bangalore Shame Index (BSI!) is the ‘PARTIAL’ construction
of the Metro Rail, grandly named Namma Metro! It’s been years since the
skeletons of the metro rail project started hanging above the Bangalore
Populace & the visiting population! The partially finished project
which was GRANDLY trumpeted to ease the traffic congestion has reached
nowhere EVEN much after the declared dead line, with EVERY ONE living in
& passing through Bangalore ‘wondering’ whether the tag of Perennially
Unfinished ‘Metro’ City (PUMC!) be patently given to it!
With the vehicles moving choke a block before &
after the office hours & school hours, the delay in the Namma Metro Project
(The Completion of the Project!), where millions have ALREADY
been spent, stacks up MORE& MORE numbers of the ‘Newly
Bought’ (NB!) BMTC buses on the roads (AGAIN, in the name of
commuter pain reduction, PUBLIC MONEY IS PUBLICLY WASTED!),
multiplying the traffic jams! It’s ‘AGAIN’ SHAME ACCUMULATION on
Image Bangalore (IB!)!
It is SIMPLE logic that all the ‘NEWLY’
bought buses ‘can be’ sold off –to whomsoever the
AUTHORITIES deem fit!- as ‘petty scrap’ when the Metro Rail project is
finished, years after the original deadline, as, by that time, those who did
the ‘BUYING OF THE NEW VEHICLES FOR BMTC’ could have gone to their banks
laughing all the way as their ‘UNKNOWN’ ACCOUNTS (UAs!) would, by then, have
been FILLED WITH the kick backs they earned BUYING THE NEW BUSES for the
commuter comfort!
One comes to the conclusion that the
SHAMING BANGALORE PROGRAMME (SBP!), with its multiple tentacles,
will definitely move on for some more years as the Governments & the other
executive machineries like the police, which SHOULD STOP it, seems to be
in collusion with the perpetrators, pushing the programme indefinitely forward!
And, it ALSO seems that they find providing wholesome protection for
whoever is ROBBING THE COMMON MAN THREAD BARE their ONLY
duty for which, THEY CONSIDER, they are there in the respective
positions they are in @ the moment!
