Dec 24, 2005 05:50 AM
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(Updated Dec 24, 2005 06:03 AM)
Merry Xmas:)
Warning: Expecting this to be useful review will be a generous gesture towards me. So nice of you to do so.
Giving advice on essential public service is like giving advice on ways to straighten a dog’s tail. It’s trying giving Hindi speaking crash course to Sonia Gandhi. Honestly I can try my hands on them easily but not on public service.
Of late I have been with lot of public at public places and doing public things. I felt I should value add by saying few things about quintessential public services, either you add them or improve them.
For the openers…
.let’s start from Sulabh Sochalayas. Sulabh in English means easy and sochalaya means loo. So easy loos aren’t easy as they sound. The moment you enter a bathroom shelling out a rupee. Scintillating odors greet your nostrils and sounds from the neighbors(you want me to type that?) eeks. Also the bathroom is filled with abuses that many of us use when we are in our true form;-). So in a way easy loo are a torture chambers that you experience for as low as rupee 1.
Peeing can be most leisure seeking activities in once daily plethora of activities. Take a leak and aaaahha.Pheeew. People enjoy peeing at different strategic locations as release into the nature in the natural surroundings, now I am talking of course about male folks. One Fine day I was taking leak in so called surroundings and moment later was joined by few dogs. A reluctant dog wasn’t at ease finding a company like me:(. What follows is a conversation between me the pisser and the dog another fellow pisser.
Me: “Nice place to take a leak”
Dog: “What nice?:( The moment we lift our leg there is some disturbance.
Me: “Well disturbance?(Confused)
Dog: “Well, if you are game then listen”
Me: “Ok you have my attention.”
Dog: “You humans don’t have a little decency. This space is for us, Imagine days of free tail waging and tonguing out. They have gone. I have to mate with sweet heart in the open.”
Me: “Aargh…”
Dog: “You humans leak here and there. Now I am giving out examples for humans in Govinda isshtyle”
Me: Speechless
Dog: “Mein koi raah chalti diwaar nahi jispe koi bhi aadmi aakar you know what karde”
the dog relaxed and went. I was left stranded thinking.
The bottom line its high time that{peeing lounges or peeing parks} are created so as helping the bladder from bursting and also providing relaxation at the same time.
Traveling on Indian Roads is a piece of cake, because we have only have pieces to travel on, the road cake is all gone eaten up. The moment a new road is made we see BSNL/MTNL dig the hell out of them, as if searching lost treasure there.
So it’s highly essential that government should build{ 2 separate roads one for us to travel and one for them to dig like dogs}. Go ahead enjoy;).
Post Offices in India. One fine day I put my hand in a post box, insanity gets into me and I become strange. So I put my hand to no avail. There weren’t anything posted in there except a spider lurking here and there on its own web and seeing my hand trespassing its territory it bit me. Amazing things happen and we witness them shockingly! A boy came opened the post box and kept his cricket bat and balls(he had 2 cricket balls:P) in it and went away.
So in my opinion that is of course humble that government should make these{postboxes freeway lockers}. You reach them first you get them first.
Weather Report
Ever noticed the hazy map on doordarshan that shows weather. I used to wonder what that is in the background, looked like a black cobweb and the weather man or so called meteorolo some thing something.Ok for purists.Metereologist speaking blah blah about western disturbances. Now low on geography I ponder why disturbances occur from west. Every time I get disturbed from someone I figure out his or her direction. So the weatherman goes on…
”Thunder showers likely…
rain likely…
cloud cover likely…
sunshine likely…
humidity likely.”
My foot everything is likely then what is unlikely. Probably a decent weather
A bright sunny day promised and you end up drenching yourself in water. What’s the utility of this department meant for publicly essential information service. The weather department the world around have gone for a crazy ride altogether. A hurricane is named Katrina and Wilma. Chennai gets Baaz and what remains now.Hmm. Cyclone in Orrisa will be named Mallika and an earthquake will be named after Sunny Deol after all the way he dances. The floods would be given any name from Shimla, Vimla and Bimla.
The bottom line is{Weather reporting should be worthwhile}
PWD
Public work department. One fine day I went to the office and saw this huge pile up of files and there were rats playing professional rat hockey up there. The balance was vulnerable. I forgot the work that was on my mind and was busy looking at that file pile up above the engineers head. Every now and then I was chilled in bad anticipation that files pile up will fall on me and soon the whole rat hockey team will have a new playground to play on. Essentially why would some one go to such public offices. The office looks like a mess of files. Amazingly the only grace is that peon remembers every file and somehow will get you yours. The thing I do want to happen is let such departments exist without paper.{lets donate them computers}.
On a serious note…
…so essential is something that can be of value to anyone. Applying marketing concepts on these public services and you will come to know the way they have been offered is actually a mere government formality. When we pay for it why not just structure them well and just derive more value out of them. So essential services become effectively useful in our daily lives. Rather than me cribbing about them we can rest assured and relax enjoying their efficient operations.
Cticize’s Quote: “Essential public services are many. I have got into a few and got a upside down view. It’s the system you see and you live with it.”
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