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Metro shows the way

The Delhi Metro has not only provided people with a comfortable, safe and fast mode of transport, it has also given them a new address -- one that is also easy to locate. While this may sound too good to be true, the fact is that people living along the Metro corridors have now started mentioning the pillar closest to their home in their address.

Just the other day a resident of Nishant Kunj in North-West Delhi made a mention of the Metro pillar near his house to his friend and asked him to take a turn immediately upon reaching the said pillar.

And just as he had expected, his friend reached his house in time. The Metro pillars with their serial numbers acted as perfect guides all along the route he took. And when he reached the given pillar, the address he was trying to locate was barely a stone's throw away.

The way the Metro pillars are numbered should also give an idea to other civic agencies in the Capital to use other similar landmarks -- like electricity poles, for instance -- to direct people to their destinations.

-- Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

First things first

After a long wait, Delhiites have finally got to taste the much talked about Ganga water from the multi-crore Sonia Vihar water treatment plant in the Capital. The inauguration of the plant recently was followed by huge advertisements in newspapers urging people to save water and use this precious commodity judiciously.

But it seems the Delhi Jal Board first needs to put its own house in order and check wastage of water from its leaking pipelines.

For instance, ever since water supply started to colonies in East Delhi and South Delhi from the new plant, a pipeline burst occurred near the Bhairon Road-Ring Road crossing right next to a Delhi traffic police picket.

Since then millions of litres of water have constantly gone down the drain. Ironically, neither Jal Board officials nor the Delhi police have cared to do anything to check this colossal loss.

-- Sandeep Joshi

Burglar alarm

With growing cases of chain snatching, bicycle thefts and burglaries at Anand Vihar, the local residents are a worried lot.

"Because of the fear of theft we find it difficult to leave our homes even for half an hour. As for the police, you do not even feel like lodging a complaint with them as the follow-up is very poor," says Archana Mishra, a resident of Priya Enclave, who found her house burgled after she returned from a nearby market.

"Growing incidence of crime in and around Anand Vihar has left the residents feeling very insecure. So bad is the situation that even buying a new bicycle is becoming a curse for the residents as it gets stolen within a week," rues Vipin Mahna, who has had three bicycles stolen from his house in the past one year.

Residents say that representations to the local police authorities have fallen on deaf ears. "A couple of weeks ago burglars broke into a house at Shanti Vihar in broad daylight when the owner, a school teacher, had gone just 100 yards away for an hour. Intruders decamped with cash and jewellery kept in the house for a family function. Incidents like this one have left us shaken."

-- Bindu Shajan Perappadan

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