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The Railways and the civil administration are in a fix to decide as to whose job is to build those bridges. When in doubt just lean on the ever ready Army, how funny are our politicians who fail to see the priorities to be given to the Armed Forces.
India has great talent and companies who can do good work, but government procurement systems are rotten to the core in most cases.
L1 bidding (lowest bidder wins contract) is the greatest dis-service and leads to the most waste in terms of corruption and poor quality.
Good officers get over-ride by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats who find ways to award projects to companies that share the loot.
Its hard to provide good quality service to the government. Perhaps these enthusiastic politicians should focus on fixing those fundamental issues.
Until then, bridges will continue to crumble elsewhere. But maybe there won’t be as much noise when it’s outside the metros.
So as to make it convenient to inaugurate this bridge by the Prime Minister. Had it been BMC it would be Shiv Sena Chief, and that makes it inconvenient for Fadnavis and also Modi. In the meantime Elphinstone Bridge has acquired its prominence internationally. All the planning and preparation for tender by the Railway that came into news soon after the bridge collapse is into the dustbin? It is misuse of Army and the Govt. just because it is under certain discipline and Jawans to Chief of Army maintains it because it is the norm with which they live not only the Indian Army but world over, this is taking advantage of the situation by the Modi Govt. not unlike the previous Govt. Railways are paid annual ad-hoc payment of almost three months while Army possibly get in line with central Govt. that is one month. In case of death on duty deceased of the family get an alternative employment, apart from other usual benefits but for Army Jawans no jobs for the family one member, and there are discrimination galore of them all the OROP while ex-servicemen are still on Dharna and the case is filed for direction to the Govt. for payment of agreed formula of OROP. But this Govt. is proud of Army for it does not question, it does not speak up and all the people or organisation that do not question or speak up are good and patriot.
Bridges are an important component of a country’s infrastructure. There must be thousands of bridges in India in need for repair. Elphinstone Road tragedy was an opportunity to envisage and create a lean pan-India civil organisation – made of experts, autonomous and central government funded – dedicated to maintenance of bridges; something similar to Border Roads Organisation. But for this you need vision and serious policy making and its implementation, rather than tactics and ad-hoc reactive actions. If demonetisation wasn’t the Tughlaqi farman, this action of calling the army to do a trivial job of building an urban bridge certainly is.
The Railways and the civil administration are in a fix to decide as to whose job is to build those bridges. When in doubt just lean on the ever ready Army, how funny are our politicians who fail to see the priorities to be given to the Armed Forces.
Absolutely correct, this article.
India has great talent and companies who can do good work, but government procurement systems are rotten to the core in most cases.
L1 bidding (lowest bidder wins contract) is the greatest dis-service and leads to the most waste in terms of corruption and poor quality.
Good officers get over-ride by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats who find ways to award projects to companies that share the loot.
Its hard to provide good quality service to the government. Perhaps these enthusiastic politicians should focus on fixing those fundamental issues.
Until then, bridges will continue to crumble elsewhere. But maybe there won’t be as much noise when it’s outside the metros.
So as to make it convenient to inaugurate this bridge by the Prime Minister. Had it been BMC it would be Shiv Sena Chief, and that makes it inconvenient for Fadnavis and also Modi. In the meantime Elphinstone Bridge has acquired its prominence internationally. All the planning and preparation for tender by the Railway that came into news soon after the bridge collapse is into the dustbin? It is misuse of Army and the Govt. just because it is under certain discipline and Jawans to Chief of Army maintains it because it is the norm with which they live not only the Indian Army but world over, this is taking advantage of the situation by the Modi Govt. not unlike the previous Govt. Railways are paid annual ad-hoc payment of almost three months while Army possibly get in line with central Govt. that is one month. In case of death on duty deceased of the family get an alternative employment, apart from other usual benefits but for Army Jawans no jobs for the family one member, and there are discrimination galore of them all the OROP while ex-servicemen are still on Dharna and the case is filed for direction to the Govt. for payment of agreed formula of OROP. But this Govt. is proud of Army for it does not question, it does not speak up and all the people or organisation that do not question or speak up are good and patriot.
This article should be eye opener to the Railway Minister for his hasty decisions.
Bridges are an important component of a country’s infrastructure. There must be thousands of bridges in India in need for repair. Elphinstone Road tragedy was an opportunity to envisage and create a lean pan-India civil organisation – made of experts, autonomous and central government funded – dedicated to maintenance of bridges; something similar to Border Roads Organisation. But for this you need vision and serious policy making and its implementation, rather than tactics and ad-hoc reactive actions. If demonetisation wasn’t the Tughlaqi farman, this action of calling the army to do a trivial job of building an urban bridge certainly is.
It is really pathetic attempt by Piyush and Nirmala.
They should junk it ASAP.