This is our own nagar nigam
What in English, we call the Corporation
We pay heavy taxes to ensure we get proper services
Clean streets, regular water supply, clean drinking water
Good pavements and roads to walk upon
Trenches dug and cleaned at least once a month
Rubbish picked up daily from the street and homes
Plant blossoming trees on the wayside
Instead of ruthlessly ‘murdering’ those that have stood for years
Supporting the environment
But
No one seems concerned with deepening social issues
Instead
Like the raging anaconda the more modernization
The more the growing problems
How did the unqualified masons and architects
Of ancient Indus valley civilization
Build their cities so beautifully with underground drainages
And
Fortified their forts so mysteriously with stones
No cement was available then
Our trained qualified engineers and architects fail so miserably
Our dams collapse,
Our roads built soon convert into potholes
Superficial tarred or scarcely cemented
Where does the problem lie?
How progressive are we
If we cannot supply pure drinking water
If we cannot provide good roads to walk
If we cannot collect garbage from homes
If we cannot build proper drainages in colonies
If we cannot pick up the drained out dirt
Un hygienically dumped before our homes
Remember Thoreau who retired to Walden
In protest of taxes levied ungraciously
Isf the corporation collects heavy taxes
It is their moral duty to pledge themselves
To constructive improvements of the city
They vow to honor with their services
~Shobha Diwakar
Jabalpur, India
Well said Ms Diwakar. Lets hope for better returns for the taxes we pay.
Thanks for your views ASB
problem is taxes are heavily levied for maintenance but no attention is paid to public grievances
The gutter rubble and refuse is still piled up right at the entrance to my house