How Mangoes Became ' AAM'

How Mangoes Became ' AAM'.. pg 11 Sunday Times of India, 25th August 2013

Similar to having boosted the Mango production in the country, have been suggesting that all trees planted on the kerbs in urban areas must be fruit bearing. besides providing for shade, they also yield fruits, that go a long way to alleviate hunger of the poor.
The trees could be contracted to a street vendor who sells fruits. This will create a natural supply, and keep prices under check.

The Butterfly Effect..

At regular intervals one can read reports and complaints of Vehicles being parked wrongly.

 

The better way to bring to a halt all these inconveniences is to declare all streets up to 3 lanes to be Non Parking  at all times.This one act will ensure No Vehicles stay beyond a max. time limit of 2 minutes if needed to disembark a passenger/member of the vehicle.

All Vehicles should have their Owners Mobile Numbers registered with the R.T.O.
Policemen should cease to Tow Vehicles. Instead they should patrol a spot and send an SMS to the RTO Control Room. The Control Room in turn sends an SMS to the Vehicle Owner asking him to clear the vehicle immediately. The clock starts. The minute the Vehicle Owner or its driver approaches to clear the vehicle he meets the

Policeman. The Policemen asks the Vehicle Owner or Driver to SMS the Control Room, and in turn gets the Fine amount displayed on the Vehicle owners Mobile. He either pays the amount and collects receipt on the spot, or has it debited to his account, which gets paid ASAP.The Policeman informs the RTO control room the time when the Vehicle has cleared the spot.

This will avoid all corruption, and ensure Road Discipline.

Currently we have many vehicles that park haphazard on Four Bungalow Lane because of the presence of a road side market. The two lane street thus gets converted to a one lane street, causing untold hardship for all.
If this way to fine the vehicles is adopted, soon we will have a smooth travel anywhere in the city.

Number of jobless Muslims dips in both cities & villages./.

Number of jobless Muslims dips in both cities & villages./. Headline, The Times of India 19th August 2013.
I think it is a Incorrect Representation of Facts. Unless the Government and Media do not stop reporting on Religious lines or Caste-Creed lines, India / Bharat will NEVER progress. What you have done by this is to build a Wall along the Fault line. Instead Responsible reporting is where you consider Economic status as the only criteria. We need to economically uplift ourselves and the Country. We need to ensure all our citizens are Literate and not glorify the %age of literacy based on Religion.
Trust from today your Paper will do more Responsible Reporting....

Shops altering pavements must pay for restoration, says BMC.

Shops altering pavements must pay for restoration, says BMC..  Mumbai Mirror,22nd July 2013

It is a better idea to have these shops pay 10 times the Property tax (10X) for defacing areas beyond their legally approved premise. This will be applicable until such time they restore it to normalcy.

If they use space for commercial or storage purposes then the space so used should be charged 25 times the Property tax(25X) of the legal rate in that locality. This will be applicable until such time they restore it to normalcy.

This is the only way to get the City back to Normalcy.

Tour de Pothole..

Tour de Pothole.. pg 8, Mumbai Mirror, 1st August 2013

From the image it can be seen that the stone size is larger for a surface repair. 

I had in an earlier blog written how it should be done which I copy below:

  

I have observed currently the practice of the contractor is to take huge bits of rock say 1 inch cubes and mix them in a hot tar and lay it on the ground. Run a Road Roller and claim to have the work done. This to me is Grossly Incorrect.

What we need to do is first have the base earth well compacted to a level of hardness pre-determined. Next we need is have a mix of rock say
30% 1 inch cube + 40% 0.5 inch cube + 30% 0.25 inch cube.

This will ensure the space between two 1 inch cubes are well occupied by 0.5 inch cube, and the space between two 0.5 inch cube is well occupied by 0.25 inch cube.

This will be leveled by a road Roller, leaving a depth of 1 inch for the Top layer.

The Top layer will be a coat of fines and rock size less than 0.25 inch cube. This will ensure the smoothness of the road, and not start giving way to weathering or dislodge of filled rock.

This to me is the way ahead for Tar roads....  http://simplesolutionsforall.blogspot.in/2012/11/audit-of-repaired-potholes.html

State hires Consultant to scrap arcane laws....

State hires Consultant to scrap arcane laws.... Headlines, Mumbai Mirror 31st July 2013.

While this is a step in the right direction, I did write last year on the same subject, which can be read at the below link
http://simplesolutionsforall.blogspot.in/2012/07/outdated-laws.html