Shaming The Idea Bangalore!

THE SHAMING OF BANGALORE is happening….! The Silicon Valley of Asia is getting the shame dirt on it on a daily, hourly & minutely basis! And, the CULPRITS are those who are there to protect the Name & Prestige of the metro city, which ALSO include those who govern, in the name of the so called common man whom the legendary cartoonist RK Laxman depicted with one of his master strokes of the same name!

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!