In winters a combination of factors makes it impossible to breathe in Delhi. The High Court has slammed both the Centre and the State. The State government called for an emergency meeting and proposed a slew of measures. One of them is to allow odd and even numbered cars on alternate days.
The proposal is doomed even before it can be implemented.
Take our campus. Every bit is walkable. Especially from where I live to the Mother Dairy booth, just a two-minute walk. The residents do two things- either they will send their maid or they will take the car. Now, how will they manage if the odd/even number is implemented. Do you really think they will follow the rule?
None of the children walk either to the school bus stop or to the sports activities or to anything. As soon as they come out of their houses, they hop into the car and their parent drives them.
The excuses are plenty. Of course, I agree that there are too many dogs on the campus and no one is willing to make sure that the dogs are spayed so that their population does not increase. The onus we are told is on the NGO to whom the job has been delegated; the animal activists tell us that we are cruel to target the dogs; the reality remains that most of the dogs are feral and many of them bite; this is enough excuse for the residents not to walk. And now that the fellowships for the students has been increased, most of them possess vehicle of some sort and therefore, in the past 10 years I have been here, there has been a phenomenal increase in the vehicular traffic and hence, the pollution. We do not care because we like to put the blame on some one else. I am sure that the good citizens of Delhi will come up with ideas to defeat any measure taken by the government to reduce the pollution. Never mind that it affects our health. The car has to be exercised, right?
The proposal is doomed even before it can be implemented.
Take our campus. Every bit is walkable. Especially from where I live to the Mother Dairy booth, just a two-minute walk. The residents do two things- either they will send their maid or they will take the car. Now, how will they manage if the odd/even number is implemented. Do you really think they will follow the rule?
None of the children walk either to the school bus stop or to the sports activities or to anything. As soon as they come out of their houses, they hop into the car and their parent drives them.
The excuses are plenty. Of course, I agree that there are too many dogs on the campus and no one is willing to make sure that the dogs are spayed so that their population does not increase. The onus we are told is on the NGO to whom the job has been delegated; the animal activists tell us that we are cruel to target the dogs; the reality remains that most of the dogs are feral and many of them bite; this is enough excuse for the residents not to walk. And now that the fellowships for the students has been increased, most of them possess vehicle of some sort and therefore, in the past 10 years I have been here, there has been a phenomenal increase in the vehicular traffic and hence, the pollution. We do not care because we like to put the blame on some one else. I am sure that the good citizens of Delhi will come up with ideas to defeat any measure taken by the government to reduce the pollution. Never mind that it affects our health. The car has to be exercised, right?
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