Monday, December 10, 2007

My village is growing leaps and bounds

I belong to a small place called Charoda. It has the proximity to Raipur, capital of state Chhatisgarh, Bhilai (known for Bhilai Steel Plant , one of the leading steel plants in India and also for a large number of students getting selected for premier institute off IITs) . Earlier it was literally a vilage, but in the last 3-4 years it has seen its share of great success in every filed. It has now 4 lanes with traffic signals, which people hardly cares, it has multiplexes where I seat in 2 row during weekends, it has huge shopping malls with leading brands, it has luxury and costly appartments comparable to those in metro cities in Bangalore and Hyderabad, it has leading banks like ICICI and HDFC, it has gr8 colleges with all the state of the art facilities, it has a nice airport which facilitates Air Deccan and Jet Airways.

Every thing looks nice and promising except the people and their mentality. There is a huge confusion in the traffic still, everyone thinks he need to cross the toll booth first, nobody cares about the queue system at any places you name: movie theatre, gas counter, ticket counters in railway station, corruption and black marketing is open in distributing gas cylinders. People have the attitude to mind everybody's affair except his own.

I believe we Indians are growing by leaps and bounds and we can do far better if we just try to be patient and a little courteous. I really wonder why we all are in such a hurry ? Why we don't adopt fair means ? Why we keep mum on being taken for granted for every other things ? Why there is always delay for any simple thing ? Why don't we have respect for time ? Why we wanna always make public places look dirty ? When we will stop throwing garbage inside the trains and buses and streets ?

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