urban crowd
On a hot summer morning (thanks to global warming even October is hot) I was inside a call taxi from my cousins house at Valasarawakkam to my head quarters office at Paris seeing the crowd crossing my car with cycles,mopeds,scooters,motor cycles,autos,call taxis,owner vehicles,smoking buses and offcourse lorries. A mami in an auto with her fully covered silk saree completely sweating and waving the paper fan of some tobacco company to reduce the heat of the Chennai city from 105 degree fahrenheit. Another girl is completely closing her head with thuppatta (not only for the heat but also for the relatives) and her hands with long clouses hugging her fiancy disturbing his driving. A rich women in her chevourlet car playing with her one year old child in side the A/C comfort and both are rose in colour without affected by the sun of the Chennai. Some boys hanging in the foot board of a city bus are waving their hands in happy seeing this lovely mood of the motor cycle girl. So Chennai is a city of people earning 10 rupees per day to 10 lakhs rupees per day. Not only Chennai every urban town is only like that.
If we take a survey in most of the cities sixty percent of the population are poor people who are encroached there for their minimum livelihood. Thirty percent is middle class. Only ten percent is rich.
For example in Chennai there are two system of transport buses run by Government. In ordinary buses if the charge for a particular place is three rupees it is five rupees for the limited stop service bus or for the special buses. But people are avoiding the five rupee buses and hanging in the three rupees buses making the bus over crowded and make the travel a suffering. This shows people cannot afford this extra two rupee charges. They are poor and they come to Chennai for their minimum livelihood. If they are properly employed in their villages they will not accumulate in metro cities unnecessarily and making the city a sick one and the ugly rivers like Cooum and Adayar will not be there and will be clean as they are in their origins.
The middle class is there for their employment. This crowd can be reduced by putting the Head quarters of their offices in various upcoming towns instead of these metro cities. For example it is not necessary for a Bank to put its Head office in Chennai it self. They can be in any district headquarters town like Madurai, Tiruchi, etc. State Government state level head offices are also not necessary to be placed in Chennnai it self. For example Auditor General office, Post Master General office, education departments head quarters, revenue department head quarters can be placed in any town. Government is often trying to shift the secretariat to the outskirts but is stopped by the opposing parties for narrow reasons.
No question arises for the rich as they can live anywhere else.
M.G.R. had an idea of shifting the secretariat it self to Tiruchi and Thanjavur (Cauvery river belt) but was not come out successful.
After all we are not doing business by directly visiting these offices. Everything is running by postal transactions and even that is reduced as we have switched over to net connections.
And even we cannot shift all these offices as the Cauvery may become Cooum then.
