[mpisgmedia] [scan] Bangalore metro (Gowda objections & my hearty suggestion)

ToI, 24.10.05: Gowda now halts Metro Rail project

...Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda is at it
again. He has shot off another letter to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and chief minister N Dharam
Singh to stop the Bangalore Metro Rail project, saying
its cost is prohibitive ... the Public Investment
Board (PIB) meeting on August 5 didn't clear the Metro
Rail project... He cited the Delhi Metro Rail project
to bolster his argument about cost escalation... asked
the CM why the Metro Rail project was not brought
before the state cabinet... said the project would
raise the financial burden on the Karnataka government
to a level that is beyond its capacity to bear
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1271268.cms

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The finance question is fuzzy (with no clarity on
delhi metro financial plan, no non-volvo comparative
appraisal with high-capacity bus costs, etc, and lots
of noise) and distracts from fact of shady approvals.

Tell me: what is wrong with my simple suggestion, now
also u/s.11A, of letting dmrc/fdi make dilli-heart on
prime safdarjung district park with high-profit
world-class goodies (otherwise spilling on ridge &
riverbed) for fuzz-n-shade-free hearty metro-finance?

esp now that (a) District Park conversion barrier is
broken, by DMRC chairman (secretary MoUD) assuring on
affidavit to SC petty builder flats on Tughlakabad
district park, (b) weight of former PM VP Singh on
Tughlaqabad park conversion is matched by weight of
former PM Deve Gowda on Safdarjang park conversion,
(c) like Tughlakabad park conversion in name of poor
because VPSingh is messiah-of-poor, Safdarjang Park
conversion can be in name of poor since DeveGowda
(from what little I can make out of the
DeveGowda-NarayanMurthy affair) is objecting to
obliging IT lobby at cost of poor and an IT Park
features prominently in the metroPD affair; ...

[phew! can anyone write like PG Wodehouse? crazy
concatenation apart, in purely plannerly terms, while
Tughlakabad park conversion is impossible to justify
under not only planning but also environmental law,
Safdarjang park conversion is justifiable for several
reasons]





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