Legalizing the illegal construction by imposing Impact Fee is similar to the Islamic Law prevailing in some Gulf countries which allows a murderer to pay compensation to the family of the victim. I still fail to understand why even the Supreme Court is not taking against the Municipal officers who allowed the illegal construction in the city. Instead of staying the Gujarat high court‘s order the Supreme Court should have ordered to identify the offenders form the municipal corporation. Why the sealing drive only on CG Road? Invite the honorable judges from the Gujarat high court and the Supreme Court to visit the old city of Ahmedabad. Where our heritage tagged poles (streets) are situated. I assured you they will issue an order on the spot to seal entire eastern Ahmedabad. Where are the so called town planners who are responsible for the city’s plan development?
Another surprising thing, everybody is praising the Pole (street) Architecture. No doubt about the craftsmanship of the pole houses. But what about the space in which they have been built? Very poor space management, lack of vision of the people who built these poles and no room for waste disposal provided. In some of the poles you even can’t raise both hands in opposite directions.
They are now taking credit for much acclaimed (as claimed by the state government) BRTS services. Though the initiative is good but once again it established that our town planners are so much poor in their vision. The main purpose of the BRTS was- a public transportation facility which will not have to face traffic jam at any point. For its one of the most ambitious project the corporation run bulldozer on many legal-illegal construction to build the modern bus stands and corridor for the bus. But the main problem apart from intrusion by two-four wheelers, the buses of BRTS have to stop at every circle they pass. If they have made few small over-bridges, not everywhere but at those circles where the traffic is too dense, then perhaps the situation would have been more comfortable.
