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Though majority of autorickshaw drivers are going on strike from today, a good number of them do not think neither the Government is wrong in asking them to switch over to digital meters nor people are unjustified about their complaints about fleecing. “But we cannot ply our vehicles and take the risk of being stoned,” quips an auto driver. The auto driver, however, feels the problem could have been solved long ago had the RTA and Legal Metrology officials been consistent in their drives in seizing vehicles with tampered mechanical meters instead of letting them off with fines. Governor N.D. Tiwari appears to be more comfortable speaking in Urdu. The other day he ignored his written English speech and spoke in Urdu at the 122nd birth anniversary celebrations of Salar Jung III at the Salar Jung Museum. During the course of his address he recited the famous couplet of Iqbal – Khudi ko kar buland itna ... As an old ‘khadim of Urdu’ he liked to give vent to his thoughts by crooning a ghazal. Then he enthralled the audience with yet another couplet – zamana bade shouq se sun raha tha/ hameen sogaye dastaan kehte kehte. Mr. Tiwari suddenly remembered that it was getting late. “But when poetry is on one even forgets hunger,” he remarked. Two new flyovers thrown open for use between Nagarjuna Circle and Begumpet in last few days promise to offer some respite to the vehicle drivers. For quite sometime, drivers on this stretch were forced to spend miserable time stuck in jams and for most part of the day, chaos would prevail with vehicles moving at a snail’s pace. With one side of the traffic flow taken care of by the two flyovers, motorists now look forward to the third one on this stretch that when completed would have vehicles taking off near Grand Kakatiya to land at Road No. 1 of Banjara Hills. When it comes to responding to complaints of people, S.R. Nagar police are probably the ‘quickest’ of the city police. In a recent ‘court-referred’ case, they sent a special team in a hired vehicle to arrest a 76-year-old accused person in Mahbubnagar district. Interestingly, the case is about the alleged harassment of a woman by her husband. Their marriage was performed some 40 years ago! Definitely the S.R. Nagar police are leaving no stone unturn ed to render justice to ‘all’ the complaints coming to them. But the higher-ups don’t seem to be fully using their potential. One rarely finds the police working so hard even in court referred cases. They would have even untangled the mysteries behind many a crime in city, if investigation was assigned to them. Ask any politician, Government official or a celebrity the reasons for coming late and pat comes the reply: “Traffic chaos”. Be it a public meeting, cultural programme or any official meeting, the latecomers nonchalantly inform that they were caught in heavy traffic, without realising that how others made it to the programme on time. A lecture was organised recently in a star hotel at Ameerpet at 7 p.m. and organisers started it after an hour explaining that chief guest could not come on time because of traffic problems. Everyone agrees that traffic moves at a snail’s pace on the main thoroughfares following increasing vehicle density and giving such explanations is nothing but to escape the ‘wrath’ of those attending the event as per schedule. M.L. MELLY MAITREYI, J.S. IFTHEKHAR, T. LALITH SINGH, MARRI RAMU & M. SRINIVAS
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