Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan

Afternoon Voice

When we the Mumbaikars begins our routine safar (travel) it starts with suffer. Instead of thinking of  business strategies we have to make strategy that how would I get success to hire an auto rickshaw or how I could get the over flowing train and bus with commuters to reach in time to my office. However, there are auto rickshaws available in massive scale; at some extent ratio of auto rickshaw is comparatively more than the passengers. But still commuters are struggling for hiring means of traveling, why it is so? However, government enhancing means of travel like blending railways from Western line to Harbor line and Central line, Mono rail, Metro rail and still continued with their dialogues but peasants need robust action instead of fake promises.

Still commuters are suffering, there are severe reasons behind it like errant cabbies, mounting fares and more especially if you want to go for a short run cabman will without any hesitation refuse to you. After staging demonstrations from several NGOs activist, political parties and commuters against those errant cabbies at some extent government have woke up from their slumber, but we cannot say well done but it has taken some steps to deter these goons like government have introduced if cabbie refuse for short distance then write a complaint to the Regional Transport Office with the auto or taxi number. After lodging complaint against them RTO office will take 30days time to convict or acquit to the cabbie. If he will be find guilty for his offence still I didn’t think so that he will be punished because rickshaw union combat and surely rescue him.

Responding to repeated complaints from raged passengers’ government of Maharashtra have given the 10 days ultimatum to the errant drivers to fall in line, but yet there is no progress, government also have run the several campaigns to teach ethics to errant derivers but what happened nothing. After running all these campaigns for the betterment or to make ease of transport there is no progress. Not only means of transports have been affected but have a look at the roads of Mumbai and you will not called it metro city after observing this, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has spent Rs 56 crore on filling 14,242 potholes on Mumbai’s roads in the last six months. Even after spending such a huge amount there is no sign of development. 

Cabbies are turning more dangerous, yet we have read about the errant cabbies but the fresh example of brutality, on 19^th Sept a boy residential of Andheri gets 22 stitches over just Rs. 10 auto fare. Government have introduced the law that if we want action against errant drivers then post a complaint to RTO office how ridiculous, because in this case 20-year-old Simaab Vasi victim of ruthless driver have lodged the complaint against him and even have given the auto number yet officials are unable to trace out him there is no evolution in this case. Indeed civilians are the innocent but we are suffering and nothing is going to bad with these crooks.

It is not end here in another example to conning the passenger, Prashant Sane; member of the MNS Wahatuk Sena had hunted this information under  RTI in January this year after suspecting that auto drivers from other states were obtaining licenses with bogus address proof. More than 50,000 driving licenses issued by the Andheri Regional Transport Office (RTO) for public transport from 1995 to March 2010 are under the scanner after a RTI application revealed that they were procured using fake documents. It shows that how our RTO officials are incompetent towards their responsibilities. 

Government should have to take some robust actions like suspend all the driving license of cabbies for those complaints have been received and those who don’t have address proof. Not only Cabbies are completely responsible for the controversy but some where our officials too. Entire country’s peasants are protesting against government, what if reasons are different in Kashmir they are fighting for Azadi, Dantewada tribal people (Maoist) for their land and forest agitating against dam constructions and Mumbaikars just for a smooth transport. 

We the civilians of India becomes rebellion by force not by choice.