BRTS dismantling in MP: Hurry plans without changing habit are like BRTS

Virendra Tiwari. How important is the role of country, time, situation in any work, it can be gauged by looking at the uprooted BRTS (bus rapid transit system) of Indore. This is the same BRTS, in which 300 crore rupees were levied from the earnings of sweat from the sweat of the people of Indore, but also in the creation of which.

When BRTS was being formed in 2009-10, I was there at the time and was getting aware of the administrative process of its construction. With the efforts of the then Collector IAS Vivek Aggarwal, the city bus was already being run in Indore, so there was talk of making a separate line for buses. The impact and effect was so much that BRTS like Bagota (capital of Columbia) in Indore would be made in media bytes or public meetings during every visit to the then Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan.

He used to call Indore a city of dreams, perhaps that is why he wanted Indore to be given a big gift before the elections for his full -time Chief Minister. It was decided that a team of MP officers will go to Bagota, a city of South America. In Bagota, it will see how BRTS started in 2000.

In a hurry, the report was made, work was started with the formality of being OK. When this project was being built, the system remained confused at that time. Neither saw that even though we have to make BRTS on the lines of Bagota, it is in the Indian city, where the traffic behavior of the people is at all different from the Bagota.

Religious places located on the width of roads, intersections, unplanned markets, business sectors and beach roads are a major challenge here. If the bus lane should be wide, it had measured it from Bagota, then it was built in Indore, but will the remaining road be able to bear the weight of the existing common vehicles of Indore and after 10 years, when the number of vehicles will increase, the then officers did not understand the need to churn about what will happen at that time.

May be thought, but for political intervention and then for the then electoral gains, you will be put on hold with the idea of ​​’Once again, then see’. We must remember that there is a convoy of vehicles in each house in Indore or in any fast developing city where the number of Navadhnadhyas is increasing overnight. He will never use public transport.

There is rationing on vehicles in Singapore, that is, the government decides how many vehicles will run on the road. There are neither records nor competition to buy vehicles like their Dussehra, Diwali, Gwalior Fair, Ujjain Mela. Getting permission to buy a car there is nothing short of winning any battle, no matter how wealth you are.

This is the reason that there are equal vehicles on the streets of Singapore, so that neither the public transport there is difficult, nor to walk or bicycle. Singapore’s public transport system is one of the best means in the world. In one goods you are shopping and while returning, press the MRT button in the lift, then the lift stands directly at the underground metro station. The entire city is kept free by steps.

It is true that it is not possible for a huge and developing country like India to stop the purchase of vehicles, as the car will get a break on the thick tax from manufacturing. How much money the government gets from the construction of cars can be gauged from the fact that the government earns more than the company does not earn from a Fortuner.

The government earns about 22 lakh rupees by including GST RTO registration from this luxury car worth about 48 lakh rupees. That is, the basic price of the car is only 26 lakh rupees. Both automobile companies and the government are getting rich due to the sale of cars, but no one is thinking about the roads and traffic kachumar.

Instead of stopping the car procurement, RTO gives 50 percent discount in tax in Gwalior and Ujjain. In such a situation, excessive purchases are made. Today, there is a new trend in the society, there will be a small car and an SUV. Surprisingly, both the vehicles will not stand in the parking lot or on the main road.

In most loop colonies, 25 feet wide road does not save even 10 feet due to cars being parked on both sides. That is to say that it is not the custom of using public transport system in our society nor does the government run a big campaign for this. As long as both things go together, the journey will be difficult in both, whether it is your car or BRTS bus.

(The author is the editorial in -charge of Gwalior Naiduniya.)