Sunday, October 13, 2024

Tadoba; New Season, Same Excietment!

 















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“Love is when you always look forward to seeing the same person everyday with more excitement”… Me.

Well, don’t start jumping on conclusions as the sharing is not about love or romance or relationships as one that’s not my forte & second, this aspect of life (i.e. love) is a very personal thing & can’t be generalized! So, if you are wondering in what context I used such a quote then it’s about my feelings for Tadoba forest (what else!) & I know most of you have got bored with me & my tdaoba franticness, then it's ok if you don’t read ahead, lol! But as I said, when you love something then that thing never stops surprising you & the excitement is ever increasing to meet those surprises & Tadoba exactly does that to me, the recent trip though very short one wasn’t an exception to this law of surprises or love! Actually, when you start feeling suffocated in the city & miss that fresh green fragrance in your lungs,& your ears crave for the music of birds chirping with alarm calls in along & your eyes search for sight of yellow black stripes, then you have become a wild lifer by heart. This is what always happens to me when I am away from the forests, which was for four straight months this time, thanks to heavy rains this year across central India. And what better destination to head for Tadoba when you start feeling like a drug addict, your system misses that adrenaline rush when your gypsy rolls on the bumpy roads, which I did. It was October first week & season opener for the core area though buffers were open yet the rains have made safaris difficult during this monsoon & as I said, it was a short trip with just four safaris yet its Tadoba which never stops surprising you in every safari! And most importantly it fulfilled my wish-list yet again by sighting the mighty Chota Matakasur tiger, which was giving a dodge to me for nearly the last four years! And then there were spotted deer herds on the background of every shade of green along with some wonderful birds & yes, one of the Tadoba's Super Moms, Zunabai tigress with cubs, & will cover her in Super Moms chapter yet there was a lot to tell (and learn) in this rip too!

First, the forest of Tadoba is at its best in the month of October & the main reason is, freshness post monsoon which reflects on every tree, creepers, stream, roads & on the animals also! You will get tired while identifying the shades of one single colour Green & the fragrance of many flowers on the creepers fill your lungs with joy & every water body is flowing with fresh water (a rare sight for we the city people) & right from the orange yellow coat of Tigers to Sambhar Deer to velvet on the horn of Spotted Deer, entire forest wears welcoming attire for the winters ahead!  Though the sightings (of tigers what else) is bit difficult but with the grace of the God (and of tadoba) I have seen enough of tigers & can afford to enjoy the forest also & yet when its Tadoba, you can always hope for those yellow black stripes also which becomes orange red in this season! Starting with first safari which gave us opportunity to study a big pack of wild dogs again with wonderful reddish gold colour & same ferocity, it’s amazing to know these playful little creatures can so violent & deadly when they are in hunting mode. Many tourists consider them as cruel the way they hunt & eat their prey alive but it’s not fault of wild dogs but their small size which makes them unable to kill their prey in one go the way tiger or leopard do. So, the only option they have is bleed the prey when its sambhar or spotted deer or nilguy & make it exhausted with the chase & eat it alive which is very disturbing to watch. Here also though we couldn’t see the action but the forest was filled with the shrikes of their kill as the pack was eating it alive! Another animal which ates the wild dogs is none other than the tiger as these dogs attack small tiger cubs as well disturbs prey in the territory of the tiger, so whenever the tiger senses presence of wild dogs around it attacks them with full force & tries to shoo them away!

The best part of this trip was I got to see five male tigers & just once saw a female tigress about which I will cover in another chapter. This is very special as get to see even one male tiger is always difficult because of the large territory size a male tiger has & then it doesn’t have to guard for cubs which is a job of a mamma tiger & free to roam around at its will. Through this trip I get to observe different behaviour of male tigers & a few things about choosing right safari options which I will share here. We have booked a half day safari option for buffers on the Kolara side which covers Belara, Madanapur & Kolara gates as this gives us access to all these three zones. When sightings in one zone are not surety which usually happens in these times of year then it’s better to take such an option which allows you to cross the zones so you can cover all territory. Here in these three zones one male tiger rules named Xylo & we come to know he has not been seen for the last five six days, a normal thing for a male tiger when it has got such a big area to move around. As this Xylo guy primarily prefers to be in Belara zone first we decided to check that zone & to our wonder at one spot few gypsies of that zone were waiting as they saw him walking for marking his territory. One you see a male tiger then to locate it is easy as the tiger never changes its course of walk especially while on area marking as it follows a fixed path which the local guides & drivers are well versed with. So, Mr Xylo, a huge guy, gave us a good show & at one point it came so close to gypsy that his stare could pierce my mind asking me, what this can’t you guys allow me to do my job! And the reason is, the buffer's forest is thick and dense with shrubs, grass & the roads are narrow & turning, so unless the tiger comes on the road you don’t know where it's emerging from, in one case near our gypsy itself! And there are fewer deer or monkeys (prey base) in buffers in comparison to the core part so you don’t get to learn from the alarm calls the track of the tiger & you are dependent on visual sighting of the tiger only! What forest dept can do is, cut away the ground shrubs & grass, at least along the roads so it will be easy for the driver & the guides to track the tiger & maintain safe distance & avoid it coming close to the gypsy even by accident! Yet while Xylo was emerging from the fresh grass, the image of him staring at me was engraved on my mind & that’s one of the best take-aways from this trip.

Next day we were greeted by another male tigers’ pair famous in tadoba as Mama-Bhanje (Uncle & Nephew) as this unique combo of two male tigers though young are hanging along together & hunting also jointly, a rare thing for male tigers. At the same time, they are not siblings which makes this bonding more special as on one side the biggest threat to the tigers is, their own fights over territory & prey but here are two male tigers which are not bonded with blood yet are getting along, is it sign of behaviour changes of tigers?

And then to save the best, I got to see the Father-Son relationship of tigers which is common in Lions, remember Mufasa & Simba from Lion King?  (Please don’t ask what’s this, just google) Same bonding & affection I witnessed with Chota Mataka. named a big male tiger & his fully grown-up male cub named Kalua (because of his blackish face). As I always say, these names are given by the locals & because of birth prodigy or location of birth or somebody mark & forest dept doesn’t accept this but give every tiger an identification number yet for the ease of readers I use names only! Chota Mataka is by no means Chota i.e. Small by size but probably biggest tiger in tadoba forests & rule a large part of forest i.e. territory which includes three female tigers. All of their cubs belong to Chota Matka & he is comfortably hanging around with these grown-up cubs which are now separated from even their respective mom tigresses, again a rare thing for a male tiger! When we saw CM (Chota Matka has been fondly called by the locals), he was limping with his left front leg & it was swollen, probably because the throne of a porcupine is what our guide guessed! I informed this to local forest officers so they can keep an eye on him, as agreed this is forest & things happen as per nature but the way we have treated (read as destroyed) the wildlife over the years it’s our duty to intervene & try to protect the existing wildlife, especially the tiger, as its being apex of the forest chain! This is where tourism can help the forest dept by becoming their eyes & ear & this is why every part of forest must be open for tourism!

Seeing CM & his sub adult cub hanging along & probably hunting also together, my guide asked me, “sir, tigers ka bartaw badal raha hai kya?” i.e. sir, is the behaviour of tigers changing? Because a male tiger never allows his grown cubs, especially male cubs to hang along as that's a direct threat to his prey as well relationship with other females! I replied, maybe yes, as though for thousands of years the tiger is considered as a loner i.e. not living by pack or group like lions but maybe lack of space is becoming the reason for their changing pattern of life. Though it’s too early to make any conclusion but what I observed as well guides & drivers are seeing everyday there indeed is something changing in the patterns & no wonder it’s from Tadoba because this is the place where Tigers have learned to live with humans already & may now it’s time that they are trying to live with their own specie! This aspect forest dept & wildlife researchers need to study as its delight for tourists but tigers roaming in groups can be a big hurdle in coexistence because their aggression may increase as when in group, we always tend to dare more is what we have observed even in the humans also! Here is where forest depts role comes in picture more strongly as to make more spaces, water holes available for the tigers so that they also can disburse all over the forest & not needed to concentrate in some particular area for their needs such as road from Kolara gate to Jamani village, we can add water holes here so this stretch can be used by some tiger which is empty at present & many such small things can be thought of & I am sure park management also must be working on it! Oh yes, at Tadoba, it’s not just about tigers & clicking them but during that you can see hundreds of things around right from butterfly pair’s dance in air, behaviour of Sambhar deer when tiger is around & many such! With all such learnings I left Tadoba, eager to visit again with more excitement, soon!

You can watch more moments at the link below…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65629150@N06/albums/72177720321143099/

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Sanjay Deshpande 

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Sanjeevani Dev.

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Saturday, October 5, 2024

Being a Right Civil Engineer!

                                        



                                                    








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“Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing” …. Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he was also a prolific author. And though I didn’t use Petroski’s above words at the sharing about which I am writing this piece but it's these words which I elaborated in the entire sharing, that’s why I thought of using the same here! Well, I love (I mean it) to speak (read as lecture because officially that’s what it is called as) with the students & of any age as one, it is a challenge to test myself to hold those minds for an hour without them getting bored & two, it gives me opportunity to think on the subject I am speaking from every possible dimension which these minds can think & its fun, its like sharpening my own mind & patience too! Though when the subject is civil engineering & audience is second year engg students then one thing is sure that they won't dare to hoot you out as their faculties are also sitting in first row & submission marks matters a lot in engineering course! Yet, as a speaker the challenge which I take with myself remains as I can feel & see the bored faces & eagerness when the lecture will be done & they will be free, I want to take that challenge as this must not happen & as a speaker you can very well tell yourself whether you succeeded in it or not by looking at the faces in front of you!

Ohk, this is not about the art of lecturing but about civil engineering & opportunities as well career ahead which I was supposed to share with the 2nd year students, most of which has come from direct admission after completing their diploma in civil engineering, a path which I myself have walked on nearly thirty-five years back! This is one more reason I accepted the challenge of the lecture when my friend Dr Samer Shastri invited me to deliver the lecture in front of this lot of young to-be civil engineers. When the subject is a bit general such as this, then it's better to make a simple PPT with topics under the main subject you want to cover so you don’t deviate from the flow, which is what I did & sharing the same here…

“An Engineer is a person, who applies his/her knowledge,

to make the world a better place” …

Though I have used quotes of Mr Petroski for this sharing but for the lecture I started with my own definition of an engineer as before becoming civil engineer first you are an engineer is something many students forget! Engineering is an approach not to your profession but to the entire life as then only you learn to use the formulas you will be learning ahead is what I told them! Knowledge is available on Google also but that doesn’t make you an engineer & so mere degree won’t make you engineer but the understanding of this profession is what will make you able & for that I share below two stories with them!...

Man in a Balloon …

…A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes that he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts,

 "Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." 

The man below says,

 "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40- & 42-degrees north latitude, and between 58- & 60-degrees west longitude. 
 "You must be an engineer" says the balloonist.   


"I am", replies the man. "How did you know?" 

"Well..." says the balloonist. "Everything you told was technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information and the fact is I am still lost." 

The man below says, "You must be a Manager" 

"I am", replies the balloonist. "How did you know?" 

"Well..." says the man. "You don't know where you are, or where you are going. You made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met but now it is somehow 
my fault.

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The Train Story…

A company's engg & sales team, with 4 members each, is needed to travel from Pune to Mumbai for a seminar...

While going to Mumbai, the sales team went & bought 4 tickets, while the engg team bought just 1 ticket for 4 people, of Deccan Queen!

When TC came, the sales team showed their 4 tickets, all 4 members of engg went & hid in the toilet, TC knocked on the toilet door, one hand came out with a ticket, TC punched & it & went away! Sales team was furious as they had been outsmarted by the engg team...

 

They decided to take revenge & way back both teams were to spend some time in Lonavala, so the sales team bought only 1 ticket but the engg team didn't buy any tickets! Sales team was joyous, thinking this time the engg team will land on their face! Train started, as coon TC came, the sales team went & hid in one toilet while the engg team hid in another end's toilet. One engg went to the toilet where the sales team were hiding and knocked on the door, one hand came out with the ticket the engg took that ticket, ran to the toilet where engg team was hiding & you know what must have happened when real TC came..

Now the sales team was more furious, next day on the way to Pune they were determined to take revenge on the engg team, so at the platform, they waited to see what engg team did, but engg team bought all 4 tickets. Smilingly, the sales team didn't buy any tickets. It was a Local train (No toilets) !!! 

Morale of these stories was not fun but application of the knowledge & understanding the situation in totality for being able to do that, is what makes you an engineer!

System is for the people, people are not for the system, yet people won't survive without a system… 

Engineering is a system, as its outcome of formulas, logic & application which isn’t possible without a proper system in place & I told them engineers don’t work on feelings or intuitions but on facts & figures, which is possible only if a right system is in place! Of late I come across many youngsters (including my sons) with a favourite line, i.e., I felt this & I didn’t feel it & that’s why I didn’t do it! Well, the world doesn't run on our feelings & if not anybody but an engineer must not forget this basic about the life & that’s why from today take an oath that you won’t use this line ever, is what I told them!

Understanding the Job at hand, is what makes you an Engineer…

Most of the time people fail because they don’t understand the problem itself & this is why first one must understand the problem then only you can find the solution with the right way to do it! Job of an engineer is twofold, first, build a system which won’t have a problem & second, be ready with solutions if problems arise & improve the system. At the same time any problem is solved completely only when the person who is facing that problem is satisfied with the solution is what an engineer must learn to accept! And for a civil engineer the entire world is his client because right from home, to railway station, to bridge, to school, to road or a water line every living person (and other species too) are dealing with some civil engineering job & to see their comfort while using that service is the job of an engineer!

It’s not the post you work at but, what you give to that post is what defines you…

And to achieve this we must forget the false or say showbiz behind the terminology of posts, authority or respect, as real honor is in solving a problem with your knowledge & not in tag you carry along of some position! Money, power, position all are byproducts of knowledge & solution providing attitude, understand this as there is no term like good or bad in engineering, but there is right or wrong, that’s what engineering is about! Either you have done a right job or wrong job & unless we stand or say thrive for rightness in our work we will always end up as wrong engineer, mind it!

Accepting wrong reporting makes you a bigger lousy person than the one who reports wrongly…

And once you make your own definition of right & wrong then you won’t ever accept wrong reporting neither you will ever make such, that will make you a right engineer! And that path one has to practice as failure is in giving up in trying for rightness, is what these three years will be teaching you! Reporting has great importance in engineering as unless you have a right system of reporting you won't reach your goal, is what I told them. As well, the right reporting system helps us in minimizing errors is another important aspect of working which no syllabus will teach us directly.

There is nothing like a “Good Engineer,” or a “Bad Engineer,” you either have it in you or you don’t…

After passing out from here all of you will be called as an engineer but it won't make you a right engineer as that will be just a piece of paper but how you use what you have learned in these three years only will decide whether you are a right engineer for the job or not & for that learn everything thrown at you here by understanding the purpose of it than just mugging the formulas for marks, is what I told them. Marks are important just like money but more than that important is how you earned those marks & what will you be doing with those marks, mind it! 

 

A Whole New World…

About opportunities, a whole new world awaits them as civil engg is a basic branch & ever-increasing population of humans will always be a boon for this branch with our endless needs to live! What we need to do is look for the opportunities & fit in as per our liking & capacity, that’s the trick! May it be a govt job (which is actually getting most difficult to perform than not to get in) to contracting to services such as maintenance of the buildings, to profession to teaching to using this knowledge for other paths of careers such as marketing or finance there are hundreds of paths which starts from here! Key factor is, knowing what you want to be & no path will be easy if you want to become a right engineer, hard work is your room partner now, get used to it!

 

Fitness of Structure is possible only if you follow…

Fitness of Character,

Fitness of Mind,

& Fitness of the Body…

Last but most important, if you want to create strong, useful & right structures then first you will have to mold yourself in one such or else like a weak foundation of a building whatever you will create will remain weak i.e. wrong! And for that you must have a strong character with clarity of right & wrong about life & not just about your profession! You must have a fit mind, which is possible only with knowledge & humbleness & for that read, travel, respect wisdom, are the key factors! Last but least, hardships can be dealt only with fitness of your body , so be fit first to create fit structures, make yourself proud by your creations & that will be your best Guru-Dakshina to all your teachers & parents, adios with this note, my young civil engineer friends! 

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You can watch this sharing on YouTube links below & plz do share if feel worth…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIdxbZMSdTk

https://youtu.be/U-7Y5goFcvk?si=T-DlM3F0YBvfpOGA

 

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Sanjay Deshpande 

smd156812@gmail.com

Sanjeevani Dev.

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Monday, September 30, 2024

Rains, Roads, People & Traffic!















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“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

 Henry Ford

Well, some names need no introduction & the writer of above quote is one such, & when my sharing is about a subject which I have taken oath (to myself) not to write about i.e. roads conditions & traffic of Pune city, then his words seem apt to start it! Who better there can be than the person hailed as the father of the automobile industry but I didn’t use Ford’s words for his automobile background but for his attitude & keenness for the quality! The reason I said about the oath for  not writing about roads & traffic is, so much has been written about it & yet every year the situation is getting worse, so why add frustration for both i.e. the writer & the readers is what I thought but then like the Zen story about a doctor who keep the wounded soldiers’ fit & gets frustrated watching them to go to the war & get dead or wounded again, when meet with a monk, who tells him , his job is to make the wounded ones fit as he is a doctor & the job of a soldier is to fight, so no need to get frustrated over it, I too gathered courage & decided to write about the most written topic of Pune i.e. traffic & road conditions! Here is one more aspect we are missing & that is rains about which many will say what’s big deal as we all know in rains traffic scenes become worse & even the roads get damaged to add salt on the wound but its not that simple, is my subject of sharing!

Most people will blame traffic delays & chaos to poor public transport which indeed is a major reason but a lot depends on other aspects also as how many people who blame traffic mess themselves have ever shown patience to wait for the PMPML bus or even try the Metro of late, is the question I want to ask. Or how many use Autorickshaw or Ola/ Umer (private taxi) , giving up their 4 / 2-wheeler, is also we should ask. And I know the impatient answer, why would we do that, who will wait & look at the public bus service, how can you expect us to use it & I won’t say you are wrong but then this impatience is also one of the major reasons for the traffic mess we are witnessing on the roads, is also a fact, right? There may be a hundred reasons for not using public transport or taxi or rickshaw but in any such transport system there has to be some adjustments & if the entire city doesn’t want to make any adjustment, then the traffic issue will never be solved, is my subject of sharing!

Coming back to the core i.e. road conditions & its impact on the traffic speed then rain induced water logging is the major reason for the road damages so if we want good roads then first, we must learn to take care of rain water!  This may look very simple, but it needs planning from the very beginning, which is missing is a fact as in our country a city gets developed first then we make the roads & when this is your working style then the roads are bound to fail on dealing with the rain water problem, which is happening. Every year rains cause water logging on the same spots & water is the biggest enemy of any structure (even sheer concrete) , may it be flowing or still. Even the road portions where water flows aways the surface of all such roads gets eroded with the current of the flow & we need to reduce this flow of water on the roads which only can save the roads damaging from forming of potholes (I love the word, Khadde) & we are not doing anything about it!  Time & again it’s been proved the closed rain water drains are insufficient to carry the rain water of the changed pattern of rain water & another aspect is constant choke-up of closed rain water drains because of our attitude of throwing garbage in it (or anywhere)! We blame PMC/ PCMC for not cleaning these rain water drains before every monsoon but in the first place why these lines are needed to clean is itself the question I want to ask to the citizens & reason is, it’s the citizens of this very city dump everything they don’t want around in the rain water drains, which makes the job of the civic body harder! Rainwater lines are meant to carry rain water but every year the cleaning team finds from sofa sets (unusable of course) to carcases of domestic animals & what not in these lines & this aspect plus the insufficient size of these lines makes most of the rain water flow on the roads or wherever it is possible. And its because of careless attitude of the citizens even if the size of rain water lines even if we increase then also the chocking up of the lines will make them of no use in rains, is a fact! Here in this city, we don’t spare our open rivers & keep throwing garbage in it (I am not even mentioning encroachments) to such extent that the local-body has to build jail like framing along the sides of every bridge on our rivers so the citizens won’t throw garbage in these rivers, what else can be expected but to chock the rain water lines with our dirt!

And then comes another most important & neglected aspect of the reason for water flowing on the roads & that is, rampant concretization of every available piece of land, may it be private or public! Many people ask me, don’t we have rain water harvesting rules or policy for building any structure; my reply is, yes, but so do we have a helmet policy also while driving! Leave out the sarcasm but we speak about many things & rain water harvesting is one of them as we don’t give a damn about the rain water unless it will someday blow us (read as flow us) away, which it is already doing by damaging our roads but we are not accepting it! If we absorb majority of rain water which was earlier case then basic quantity of the rain water which will flow on the roads will be less, reducing clogging or flowing on the roads & eventually reducing the damage to the road surface, even a first year civil engg boy will tell you this but we all so call bosses of engineering are ignoring this logic of managing rain water! And the reason is, our urban policies have become blind to balance the nature with development, may it be water or green cover or earth cover, first we must improve them if we want to start making good roads! As all new buildings are required to have a RWH (rain water harvesting) compulsory but are we monitoring it & its outcome, what system do we have in place to do so? And the result is, from every developed premise (barring a few) thousands of litres of rain water flows outside of the premise & then our rain water lines are either choked or inadequate, so where this water will go, has anybody got an answer for this question?

Answer is, water will always find its path by gravity towards the low lying area & this again any science studying boy can reply but we are not accepting this simple basic science also as recently behind my society there is a nallah (once it was a stream) & PMC drainage dept were requesting to our as well neighbouring societies to allow to break our compound wall on the nallah side so their machines can enter in the nallah for cleaning. But nobody is thinking how this situation arises as for kilometres of the length on both banks of this nallah there are compound walls of adjoing buildings making entry of even PMC officials impossible so how the rain water is going to flow towards it! As here also we have blocked every such natural way of flowing rain water by illegal constructions or by wrong policies of urban planning & outcome is now we have left it to the water itself to find its own way which eventually it will & trust me we are sitting on a water bomb! As this nallah behind our building is one of thousands of such natural water carriers of the city which just a few decades back were real rain water drains as whatever rain water was coming outside of the developed premise either getting used to percolate in the earth or used to flow towards the rivers of the city via these natural streams & all of them are being blacked or encroaches & roads are doing that job, is the main reason of damaged roads in the monsoons!

Last but least alarmingly reducing green cover of the central part of the city is one more reason of increased rain water on the roads & we must create more spaces by which big trees can be planted & more rain water can be hold by their roots in the ground & here also we build big road dividers & plant the trees in between them but what about rain water which won't ever reach to their roots, who is thinking about this aspect of the job of these trees, again, answer is,  nobody!  And if all these problems are not enough then there is road digging which keeps going on all around the year for every known & unknown purpose & in the process damaging the surface of the roads! Reason behind this may be lack of coordination with the govt’s departments as well bad planning of the respective services but it is a major problem for road surface. In the end, it’s some road dept which has to take all the blame but actually we all in some or other way are responsible for the pot holes & road conditions & the traffic mess, is my subject of sharing!

What the city (read as govt/ planners/civic bodies) must do is, focus on developing rain water drain system on surface via open drains as well proper slopes with concrete roads & clear all the obstruction in the ways of natural water bodies, so they can carry this rain water (runoff) to the rivers, just it used to be few decades back! Keep enough space on ground level along the road for trees so the water can be percolated in earth. At the same time monitor effective (well, we can hope) rain water harvesting for every project, new as well completed too, so lesser rain water will hit the roads. Change DC rules for this aspect of development & do it fast so we won’t have to dig the ground to accommodate our greed for more parking spaces, instead go higher so the earth will be free to do its job i.e. absorb rain water & support trees!  Public transport strengthening is not an over-night solution as well it depends on citizen’s attitude towards life too, but the road potholes must not be the reason for traffic delays as that’s not a thing of pride for the Smart City & this can be achieved not by pointing fingers at each other but by joining our hands only; adios with this note!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

smd156812@gmail.com

Sanjeevani Dev.

Please view my sharing about finding a Right Home/ Office in Pune, at YouTube link below & share if liked...

 

https://youtu.be/27j3I3rwGPQ?si=-ODYBxVI2Dl_C345

 

Please do visit my blog links below to read about real estate & home buying! 

https://visonoflife.blogspot.com/2024/01/choosing-your-home-along-with-future-of.html

http://jivnachadrushtikon.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html


Creating Togetherness; team Sanjeevani Way (Click link below) 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65629150@N06/albums/72157627904681345

For any of your complaints about city, log in at link below

www.punecorporation.org

Take your issues to Hon PM at link below...

https://secure.mygov.in/

Think Green, Think Life

www.sanjeevanideve.com / https://junglebelles.in/