7 Things Which Will Help in Reducing Pollution from Metros, but may not be liked by Our Politician's Vote Banks

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Enough of debates we keep hearing about AAP's new odd/even rule to control the pollution due  to vehicles in Delhi. I am an engineer by qualification and with basic knowledge of science & technology, I do not think it this odd/even yield in anything but grabbing headlines on media and funny whatsApp joke. Here are my suggestion which I think can make a great effect in reducing Delhi's or any of our Metro city pollution woes through vehicle, however someone needs guts to implement it as this kind of tough measures may affects vote banks and attract protests in the name of democracy.

So, to curb pollution and take extre ordinary measures in today's extreme ordinary circumstances are:
1. Blanket Ban on any vehicle any type which is more than 10 years old: 

The maximum emission comes from old vehicle which in today's world fail to reduce emission beyond 10 years of it's life. This must include two wheeler as well. This may not be liked by many voters but this is the need of an hour as logically it won't be possible to prove how one is maintaining more than 10 years of vehicle within permissible limit of emission of all forms.

2. Restrict 2 cars each household: 

In major metro city especially this is common problem where I know few family who has 2 cars per person. So govt. must impose strict rule, for households who already purchased more than 2 cars Levy heavy surcharges on extra cars, and for future do not allow more than 2 cars to be registered in same address. If any family feels they need to own more than two cars then they should buy permit which should start from min. Rs. 5 lacs to own a 3rd car.

3. Increase Parking Charges Multi Fold:

Parking Charges of Rs. 10/50 or even 500 is nothing for people who owns luxury cars and no more deterrent for them not to take car along wherever they go. Make parking charges in tune of Rs. 3000 - Rs. 5000 in congested area and Rs. 2000 in other public areas. We have offices & real estate measured as per per sq. ft. of respective locations but not parking space. Many major cities like New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong put hefty parking charges which sometimes even costlier than owning a car.


4. Hefty fine on illegal parking: 

Our most of roads are occupied by illegal parking especially with trucks/tempos/Shop Owners vehicle which congest the roads which in term increases traffic menace and hence extra emission as cars mostly comply on 1st & 2nd gear in such traffics. In fact in Mumbai the stretch of LBS Road, Saki Vihar Road's one lane is 24x7 occupied by illegal parking. Any illegal parking vehicle must be towed for 7 days with Rs. 10,000 fine

5. Double the Buses/Cabs/Autos and Promote Public Transport:. 

Ultimately this has to be improved to cater all sort of audiences to motivate them to use safe and clean public transport. Impose criminal offense on refusal of Auto. SMS or App based complaints on refusal and online suspension of license with SMS alert to cab/auto driver. Any repeat offender of more than 2 times license must be suspended for a year. Govt. must also fund the installation of GPS trackers in Auto/Taxi to improve security. The best way to implement is to make it as mandatory required specification pre-installed at cab/auto manufacturer itself.

6. Digitize the RTO and all Vehicle: 

A lot of country has moved to digitization of vehicles integrated with RTO via RFID sensors to curb traffic offenses & imply penalty. Make all fines in real time based on these sensors monitoring traffic offense. Make annual registrations subject to annual renewal by having kiosk at multiple place to have transparency on fine collected & zero leakage.

7. Freight Corridor to avoid heavy vehicle mixing with Inner Roads:

All major cities must have transport corridor which helps exclusively to carry on cities supplies and it must not overlap with public traffic. The corridor also must carry equipment to check on emission from all vehicle in real time and freed from multiple check post to avoid long jams. 

If we are serious about pollution these are the steps which must need to be implemented strictly as well as holistically for cleaner tomorrow otherwise we will again land up in never ending debates on who is doing what to grab headlines with zero effect on ground.

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Why I am supporting Narendra Modi?

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Why I am supporting NaMo?

Well, I have been most apolitical person but euphoria of 2014 General Election has got me into it’s wave and after being bombarded with several views and counter views I thought to put my blog as some group of people think I have little bit Power of Persuasion.

First of all let me clarify that principally, I do not support any party and according to me all are same, they just try to position hard by taking one ideological stands but in the background all are same. Like Congress always position themselves as party for Poor, BJP for Hindutva and now development, SP for Muslims, BSP for Dalits, Shiv Sena and MNS for Marathis, AAP for anti-corruption etc, however they all have same hidden agenda except AAP who is quite a new in this game to even have any agenda.

I support BJP or NDA or you can call MODI because I want change and I want stable change. It is tried and tested that if you bow to monopoly or chose same group your leader again and again irrespective of their failure, non performance, inefficiencies, they will have tendency to get arrogant and assume that they have right to do anything they want as they are repetitively chosen one. The last 10 years of UPA government done quite a lot of things wrong which made the country really suffered with various scams, corruptions, backwardness, inflation, as well as social imbalance. In today's time we have to have strong competition to keep the others on the edge that ruling government is not a cake walk and they must have fear to be thrown out. Now the debate comes whether NDA or Modi is best alternative or not; and I feel strongly in favour of them because they are only capable political party at national level who has ability to provide stability and strong leadership which is the need of an hour. Also, if I see individual performance of each states governed by BJP rule like Gujarat, Chhatisgarh, Bihar (most tenure was run with ally), MP, Goa, Karnataka (even Yedurappa fiasco, Punjab etc the state did quite good in another areas); I am optimistic especially when I see dismal performance of state like Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Assam, AP, Kerala who suffered a lot by the misrule.

Regarding AAP I agree as new idea and my mind & hearts are still with them but again democratic political structure is all about numbers where you need 272+ MPs in one side to form a stable government irrespective of even you have fought against each other. AAP may have great ambition, however they are not ready to provide stable majority and on top of that they have to prove them self on all promised and big claims they are making at least first by running any state which they miserably mis-managed when they had opportunity to govern Delhi state.

I think Modi will work well for India only because he has a lot riding on his name and he has to perform to prove how he can fair in those expectation. He has challenge to remove all corruptions that came as legacy from UPA & deliver on his own branded Development model and even if he does a portion of it, it would be good for country in larger interest. He will have tough time to even deviate from anything good as he will have AAP who will be nagging even in minute issues and Congress up in arm to find any mistake. At last NDA has good team to leaders to head ministries and this government would be last chance for them to work as best to stay longer in Power because they like it or not, AAP is going to be more challenging in 2019 which compel them to perform for people.

As far as this so called “Secularism” is concern I do not think any party in India is secular and everyone side their own favourites and every one of them are responsible for some of the other riots and NDA can’t afford to malign themselves in another such fury.

Lastly I believe Change is always good and we need change with stability; be it Congress, BJP or AAP we need National Party with competitiveness and accountability for long term growth for our country.

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