Tuesday 12 April 2011

Get an Idea Sirji

Get an Idea Sirji

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If you are getting into a lift and then worried about the tower-range, then you better get idea goes an advertisement. Perhaps, the owners of this Service Provider do not know that as soon as you enter the Mumbai International Airport, the consumers of this Service Provider don’t get an idea why can’t they talk to their near and dear or their clients. Not only that and the clients are deprived of using the free internet service for which the password is sent through SMS. When you don’t get the range how can you get the password?

Mumbai International Airport – the security here poses a lot of questions. Generally, as soon as one enters the airport, the entire baggages are screened and then only one can proceed get the boarding pass. However, in Mumbai international airport, you can get your boarding pass without going through the screening. Till the time you cross the Immigration, your bags are not screened. Anything could happen between this time. God knows who derived this procedure and how are they assuring the public that nothing will go wrong.

Similarly, another mistake they do is, while there are 30 immigration counters to clear the immigrants, there are only 4 X ray screening machines. This creates a bottleneck and invariably one has to wait for hours to get cleared in the security check. This becomes pretty bad during the wee hours – say from 2am to 5 am. The workers are down with fatigue and the passengers are irritated and any minor misunderstanding leaves bad taste in either’s mouth. Will the authorities look into? Why can’t they balance the flow? I don’t get an idea!

India has won the World Cup? I am not excited. I am worried. In a cricket crazy country, the players are minting money and rewards are doled out. Every Indian cricketer if falls in A grade earn not less than Rs 2 crore every year as contract fee only and even the C grade cricketer earns as much as Rs 50 lakhs as contract fees. Why should they be given such freebies at the cost of public money? The ironical thing is, a Government has diverted their funds from Education department to give these people rewards? What does this imply? I don’t get an idea!

There is no dearth of light in sub-continent. Still, why should we play day-night matches while most of our villages grope in dark? There are announced and unannounced power-cuts that cripple our normal life. The matches resulted in productivity loss as high as 42% in the year-ending month. What was the need for the World Cup and what was the need to waive of the tax to the tune of Rs 45 crores? There were other players like Mary Kom, Sushil Singh, Vijendar Singh, Saina, Anand who were not rewarded like this. Why so much to cricket? I don’t get an idea!

MS Dhoni, the so-called cool captain, had no courtesy to mention a word about the great Murali (he did not even take a leaf from Sangakara’s speech) on his last international appearance, did not mention Jayawardane’s hundred and did not even thank the crowd. He has got a long way to go but why the biased media and the crazy people don’t mind all these and go ga-ga about MSD? I don’t have an idea!

Anna Hazare is the talk of the town. The media has over reacted as usual and so are the people of our country. I have my own apprehensions whether the Jan Lokpal bill will eradicate corruption. The existing laws were also good but they are ineffective.

It’s high time we found out the definition of Corruption. I go to a temple, finding it hard to stand in the common queue, pay some bucks, get a ticket and go and have darshan. Is this legal or corruption? I don’t get tickets in train but I have an option in a quota called Tatkal where I pay a premium and travel in the same train. Is this legal or corruption?

Let us consider the case of RTO. The system is so cumbersome that I cannot afford to avail so many leaves from my duty and hence I have to hire an agent who can do the jobs for me. I pay for this. This is not corruption. However, when this agent and the officer-in-charge form a syndicate and force others to pay for them to do the routines is corruption. Now tell me, What this Lokpal Bill will do?

There are grey areas. It is good to have the Lokpal bill however, as the euphoria created or as it is projected, this will not make India a corruption-free country. The only possible thing is there will be more players to share the cake and we may have to shell out more. Or am I wrong? I don’t have an idea!

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