I salute thee, BMP
After attempting to write a blog on cricket and my recent trip to Kodai - I didn't quite like the way it shaped up. With clone-ji reminding me continuously "please publish something on that blog of yours baba" I took an instant decision on Monday morning to write on something which no Bangalorean can ignore - Namma Bangaloroo roads :) For non-Bangaloreans who have not yet experienced the 'Bangalore roads' visit (http://www.bangalorepothole.com/)
With the BMP ( For the uninitiated Bangalore Mahanagar Palike ) announcing a reward of 100 Rs for every pot-hole found in Bangalore roads - I can't help thinking the sheer brilliance of the move made by BMP. Apart from 'improving' the quality of the roads it throws a lot of interesting possibilities -
With the winter setting in early morning joggers need not feel lazy. The early morning jogs will make them lighter and their pockets heavier! The early birds do get the prize! Who knows this move may also encourage more people to become 'health conscious' and 'wallet conscious'.
Harried teenagers who have run short of pocket money need not be disgruntled anymore. BMP will replenish their accounts in a jiffy - Just find a chuckhole.
The unemployed can sustain in this 'expensive' city by discovering one of the ubiquitous craters.
It also throws up enormous oppurtunities to archeologists. Since the pot-holes have to be found of roads - archeologists will be in great demand to excavate the roads that once existed. Who knows in this endeavour we may even discover some of Bangalore's lost treasures.
The 'Silicon Valley' of India will also become an archaelogical hub!
For all Bangaloreans who have been trying since eternity to get the lines for KBC Dvitiya - fret not. The KBC lines will now be as freely available as the potholes. Why would anyone want to gift 6/- Rs to cellular operators to get into KBC?
BMP is now offering a better way to become a crorepati with no initial investment!
I salute thee, BMP!
With the BMP ( For the uninitiated Bangalore Mahanagar Palike ) announcing a reward of 100 Rs for every pot-hole found in Bangalore roads - I can't help thinking the sheer brilliance of the move made by BMP. Apart from 'improving' the quality of the roads it throws a lot of interesting possibilities -
With the winter setting in early morning joggers need not feel lazy. The early morning jogs will make them lighter and their pockets heavier! The early birds do get the prize! Who knows this move may also encourage more people to become 'health conscious' and 'wallet conscious'.
Harried teenagers who have run short of pocket money need not be disgruntled anymore. BMP will replenish their accounts in a jiffy - Just find a chuckhole.
The unemployed can sustain in this 'expensive' city by discovering one of the ubiquitous craters.
It also throws up enormous oppurtunities to archeologists. Since the pot-holes have to be found of roads - archeologists will be in great demand to excavate the roads that once existed. Who knows in this endeavour we may even discover some of Bangalore's lost treasures.
The 'Silicon Valley' of India will also become an archaelogical hub!
For all Bangaloreans who have been trying since eternity to get the lines for KBC Dvitiya - fret not. The KBC lines will now be as freely available as the potholes. Why would anyone want to gift 6/- Rs to cellular operators to get into KBC?
BMP is now offering a better way to become a crorepati with no initial investment!
I salute thee, BMP!
posted by ranga at 10:17 AM
2 Comments:
Another possibility comes to mind. Crime. The ones desiring to make a quick buck would be digging the roads by night and reporting the holes by morn to earn their reward.
However, there are some technical difficulties which I'm not clear as to how they'll be resolved. How do you keep track of each pothole and its status (hole/fixed)? How do you know that a pothole report is not a duplicate? Do you assign IDs to each pothole or simply track them by the GPS location of their centre and radius?
- Paani Puri
Also, if there are potholes within millimetres of each other, like in Koramangala.... would they be considered as one big pothole?
Google Earth can capture most of them though... I am locating some now... if u gimme BMC's e-mail ID, i dont mind earning a few quick bucks! ;)
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