After surrounding in many controversies the People's car- The Tata Nano was launched last month. Its a promised fulfilled by Mr Ratan Tata and hats off to the dream maker. Its a dream of India's 65 percent of the of Indian middle class families fulfilled in just $ 2000. And its a remarkable achievement, Its going to put Indian car industry on global map and do a lot good for our economy without doubt.
But......What about the killer traffic of the Indian cities???? What about the suffocating pollution??? What about the daily increase in number of road accidents??? And just the thought about it makes me shudder.
I am the part of a Indian metropolitan city and have experienced and gone through difficulties of road development work(thanks to PWD the work is always behind schedule),the killer traffic where travelling amidst it is a challenge, and daily challenge to many persons who depend on road. A quater of their life goes in traffic jam. One such incident i will never forget was when we started two and half hours before for the airport( thought the distance is hardly 30km) and when we reached near the airport after two and half hours,there was a hour long traffic jam at the airport only due to some police barricade but, there was no police for checking and i would have certainly missed my flight but, lucky me!
There are many such incidents happening to commuters daily and now after the launch of the most affordable car the situation is going to be more grim.
If only the government spends more money to develop infrastructure than on election the situation will be better, or the day is not far when people's car would give people nightmare of travelling by road.
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