Tale of Cities
“Change is the law of Nature” but it’s a small change in small cities of India in the past decades even when world is developing at a faster pace. Schools have been built, but many still lack teachers and appropriate teaching methods. Some have teachers but they don’t know if their job is to teach students or talk about politics chewing tobacco. There are phone lines in many villages, but getting a dial tone is still a challenge. To get it working is involved a big/small amount of bribe. Electricity supply is at best intermittent and some times away for weeks in some well known cities too. Health care is still limited in its availability but at people’s own risk as governments hospitals mostly lack good doctors, facilities etcetera. One has to look for private facilities where some good amount of money involved and obviously it’s not accessible to each segment of the society. Entertainment is limited to radio or television, if at all the electricity is there.
Dramatically opportunities for young generation are similar what it had been years before. Most of the small cities are facing a complete infrastructure breakdown. Their only hope is a visit of some VVIP to their constituency. Although it had been better before because authorities intended to build some infrastructure which persist for some years but now it persist for more or less some months or weeks.
Agreeing upon all these issues, I would like to move towards the points which make things worst. These points are lack of awareness, corruption and no exposure to new world. People are so much involved with their own welfare that they never bothered about their surrounding. They are not coming up against problems collectively. They have a kind of insecurity or something which doesn’t let them collaborate for something be it a motivation program for masses against corruption, health care status or electricity problems.
Probably this is not the picture what people have in mind about small cities of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh but it is realty indeed. In fact, situation is deteriorating day by day and It has become a life where hope for a better future is as distant as the burning sun. The tragedy is that Civic awareness is not at all persuaded in decades.
Allas !! yes, I am worried:(
