To Improve the Health and State of Indian Roads
The turn for a post on reflections on home nation or India round-up has arrived. There are a host of avenues which needs to be addressed but if I chose one that require an urgent change and relevant to everyone, it is the roadways or the network connecting India through road and its associated infrastructure. I am stressing this point since I had seen and felt the roads of India all my life and those in U.S. for nearly four years. The difference is huge if the roads in India and U.S. are compared. You feel a sharp pain at seeing this Himalayan gap in state of affairs of roads in both these countries. Let me tell succinctly in one line - ‘Roads are a mirror to a nations progress and Road usage is a mirror to nations discipline.’ The bitter truth is the reflection you see in the mirror for India is an ugly figure. Can’t the nation with 1.4 billion deserve a better public life and better roads when one comes out. Why is the nation with 1 billion lesser populati...