This is what Rajdeo Goala, the CMD of Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) has to say when a German expert analyzed the laggardly lacunae CTC is suffering from.
Mr. Goala is a seasoned politician, and though he’s a trade union leader yet CMD of a century-old once-glorious company, there is no reason to doubt his incompetence unless you feel otherwise what with its poor state of affairs staring starkly at your face.
Barring a few stretch, trams in Kolkata runs in the middle of road, and unruly that the traffic is, it is extremely difficult even for the most athletic to board one in peak hours.
Martin Schneider of the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, Germany, who did the study with the help of a city-based NGO pointed this out in his report. He also mentioned inconsistent schedules, poor planning, clout of workers’ unions and host of other reasons for the condition of tramways.
The trouble is all these are pretty well known and chewed over countless times, but nothing really is being done to alleviate the condition. Now that the tracks are being concretized, any thought of abandoning trams altogether is firmly shelved.
All these point to only one conclusion: the government doesn’t care a bit about trams, and so not surprisingly it doesn’t have any plan for improvement.
All the more reason why Mr. Goala’s optimistic remark amounts to nothing but a perpetual emptiness and therefore a singular lack of concern. [Collated from The Telegraph]
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