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Originally Posted by StarVegabond
there were objections to GQ project when BJP government of Mr. Vajapyee announced it, now we all see the benefits.
National Highways are indeed roads toward progress for all the towns/villages through which it goes through stimulating economic activity.
some people get the value of the land unlocked
some people start shops, ...
we can see the benefits only after 10 years. |
As soon as BJP government was out of power, the Congress government did not pay much heed to finishing GQ projects. The entire GQ is not really the GQ BJP government had planned.
Apart for others getting employment, the comes out this : We pay many many taxes, innumerable to say the least. Why so costly fuel ? TAX. Why so costly automobiles ? TAX. ...The list goes on.
And one more important thing, for how long you think the road will hold up ? Within two or three years, the quality of road will deteriorate and soon it will become a bad road.
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Originally Posted by mxx Reading the comments here, this is what i infer. Everyone wants good roads. But no one will pay for it. It is the governments to take care of funding. Beg or borrow , who cares. But dont take it from the citizens, right? No matter how much you earn, you will think a million times before giving a part of it to the government. What a shame.
Here is a fact: Running a country with 1b+ people is not as easy as your 9-5 job and neither is it cheap. |
I would consider this not as OT.
How much tax we have to pay man ? List down and think how much tax. The taxpayers are not much and from that itself there are very few honest tax payers. This is ground reality one has to accept and this is the truth. My father is paying hefty income tax, paying for costly fuel, paying for house, etc. Did the government consider than even when we are building house, we are providing employment to others, etc.
We pay too much through our nose. Those who pay know the pain. I believe after paying so much, we deserve good quality fuel, roads atleast in city. Where I stay, literally I can make an Arjun tank rattle more than anything on earth.
Its a reality that most of the projects are nothing but one means to earn money. From what I have heard, if a specfic sign is made for a road contract, the authority who has signed will get 5% of total cost of project. Beat that.
The current conditions of atleast city roads speak volumes about what our government is upto.
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Originally Posted by cooldude1988765 Why are you so pessimistic ? |
After paying so much tax and being disciplined, we are yet to get good approach roads. We are living in the houes from where I am typing in this for around 9 years now. 5 yeas of construction. We have heard that there will be ring road behind our house. We built this property thinking we will have a proper approach road. That road is still not coming up.
Reality is too bad to even think, let alone surviving.
What I think :
1) No road should be toll road. If it is then reduction in tax is must.
2) Quality of roads in city needs to be improved. First fix what you are having at hand before laying down new projects. This is pure corruption.
3) Before making hyper fast roads ( people will go beyond one speed if cost of fuel is more ) consider that for real progress, attack the traffic congesation problem in cities first. 93 kms expressway in one hour. From there one hour to reach specific destination is bad.
The real problem that is acting as dampner for our economy is traffic congesation in cities. People spend more than 2 hours travelling 40 kms one way.