Development needs the foundation of education.

Just a day before, I went with my friends to my nearest metro station, which is the Green Park Station to have a ride on the newly started metro. The station has not been completed with the final finishing yet to be done. It has been barely 10 days since the day the station was functional but to my utter disbelief I found that our ‘omnipresent’ paan and gutka chewers have already started painting the walls red. The most sadistic part was that they people had not spat on the wall that bore the ‘Don’t spit here’  board but the war just next to it. It was actually the other wall of the same pillar that had the notice.

They bigger question that arises is how we crib about the development not happening, the babus eating up the taxes paid by the citizens, work not being done on time, public places being a mess. But the minute we are provided with facilities and better conditions, we tend to forget about our responsibility of preserving what we have. All the while, we are cursing the system for eating ‘our’ money but the minute this money is invested in a development procedure, we forget that it is ‘our’ money. We think that it is ‘their’ (the govt.’s) property. This has and is still leading to the process of same things being built again and again. The same roads are being built every year, the same parks renovated, the same historical sites mended. I think it is time that before we invest the hard earned and precious money in infrastructure, we should sincerely try to make the public more accountable and responsible. Just because it is ‘public property’ does not mean that anybody has the right to vandalize it.