The issue is very important and every time I go to the city I am increasingly convinced about it. Poor city management, poor construction management, mindless destruction of the wet-lands, deforestation, large-scale excavations on the hills, illegal settlements on the hills, poor planning and poor infrastructure such as drainage, lack of public spaces, expansion of large residential areas only with narrow alleys (similar to the alleys in the slums of the large cities) - related to poor regulations, open storage of coal and parking of numerous open trucks loaded with coal in the bypass, .....these all are contributing. The whole city is anarchically growing and is rapidly becoming unhealthy.
Just look at the bypass, business men are opening large storage areas without sufficient neat and clean parking facilities, they have occupied the service roads both the sides to convert these to their parking areas for trucks. The illegal dirty tea and snack stalls mushrooming in the plantation strip between the service road and the main carriageway, trees are being 'killed' one after another to increase such mindless businesses - last time I saw few trucks are also being parked in that plantation strip (after killing several trees with trick).....so everyone is waiting to see death of all the trees to occupy that strip of land for their dirty businesses......highway is frequently blocked by entry and exits of these trucks with undisciplined drivers ........and that is the most important highway in the city....no control, no regulations.............everyone is happy, no one bothers (govt, agencies)............'gahorir dore jiwon aamar'!..... And I am sure, no one is interested now!......becuz since past few years majority Assamese middle class has seen unprecedented amount of money flowing into their hands (by good/ bad all means!) -- so very happy!!....but being rich, when we go out for a recreational trip to countries like Malaysia, we should try understand how rapidly they are changing themselves -- quality of infrastructure, quality of planning, quality of management (of their cities and towns)...if Assam is efficiently planned and managed it would be a Malaysia or even better! On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Gautam Choudhury <[email protected]>wrote: > Raiz, > > Guwahati has been declared as 'one of the most polluted city in the > world". Pl read the story below: > > > http://chimalaya.org/2012/06/28/india-guwahati-one-of-the-most-polluted-city-in-the-world/?utm_source=Daily+Updates&utm_campaign=35ab332de6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email > > Gautam Choudhury > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
