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Resentment against hike in bus fare mounting in Bhopal

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NK SINGH Though a Govt. directive has frustrated the earlier efforts of the MPSRTC to increase the city bus fares by as much as 300 per cent, the public resent even the 25 per cent hike. It is "totally unjust, uncalled for and arbitrary", this is the consensus that has emerged from an opinion conducted by "Commoner" among a cross-section of politicians, public men, trade union leaders, and last but not least, the common bus travelling public. However, a section of the people held, that an average passenger would not grudge a slight pinche in his pocket provided the MPSRTC toned up its services. But far from being satisfactory, the MPSRTC-run city bus service in the capital is an endless tale of woe. Hours of long waiting, over-crowding people clinging to window panes frequent breakdowns, age-old fleet of buses, unimaginative routes and the attitude of passengers one can be patient only when he is sure to get into the next bus are some of the ills plaguing the city b...
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Power of positive

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NK SINGH


I was happily surprised to find a large number of readers appreciating my last week's column published in DB Post of 2nd January 2017. The response has been overwhelming. The article, 'Officers who made a difference in MP in 2017', has already emerged as the most read piece on my site, nksmp.blogspot.com.

 This is the power of the positive.

We encounter so much negativity in newspapers, TV and internet, that any positive news comes across as a fresh whiff of air.

The three most read pieces on my site, as of today, are:

No. 1: Officer who made a difference in MP, in which I have tried to put togather a list of public servants who made a difference in the lives of people through their work in 2017. Carried in DB Post of 2nd January 2018. 

No. 2: My interview with Narendra Modi where he talks about his troubled relationship with VHP leader Praveen Togadia among other things. This was the first interview granted by Modi, who was then Gujarat's chief minister, after he had walked out of a television show hosted by famous journalist Karan Thapar. The longish interview was published by Indian Express in its issue of 1st November 2007.

No. 3: MP Government's fatal attraction for TCS, in which I have questioned our mandarins' fascination with TCS despite horrible services offered by MP Online. It was carried as part of my weekly column in DB Post of 18th December 2017.

HOW I MADE THE LIST OF OFFICERS


As I am no expert on governance, I took help of some retired civil servants and police officers. They included half a dozen former chief secretaries and four former director generals of police, whose knowledge and wisdom I respect. Based on their recommendations, I prepared a list.

The list, if you would notice, is a mixed bag. It includes not only senior IAS officers but also a Mining Inspector. It includes people who are persona non grata with the ruling establishment. It includes people who are considered close to the powers that be.

That is the power of our democracy, which thrives on a system of checks and balances.

Even at the time of preparing the list I knew that it can not be exhaustive. There is so much good happening around us! And there is so much to write about those good things!!

Thank you, friends for such fantastic response to a positive story.


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