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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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How USA missed the chance at Bokaro Steel Plant

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Bokaro Steel Plant. Pic courtesy Industriall Union

NK SINGH

Negotiations over the Bokaro Steel Plant, the fourth pearl in the string of the Hindustan Steel Limited, dragged on for several years.
 
This golden chance to improve the prestige and image of US foreign aid was missed by the Americans when their Senate refused to collaborate with the Bokaro Plant.

However, the Americans blame Krishna Menon more than the Indian Ambassador in Washington for it.

They say, it was this sharp-tongued “fellow-traveller” who made it impossible for them to think about Bokaro at that time.

So Bokaro was started in 1964 with Soviet help.

At first it was declared that the first stage of the plant would be ready by 1967 which was later extended to 1971. Now it is sure that that it would not be ready until June 1972.

(Note: Bokaro Steel Plant started its first blast furnace in 1972.)

Excerpts from Enlite 16 August 1969

Enlite 16 August 1969

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