Money Suckers

There is a word 'Uzhaipurinjigal' in Tamil which literally translates to 'Work suckers' [Getting more work from workers and paying them less]. Autodrivers in Chennai are in a similar way can be called Money Suckers. There is no rule to make them charge nominally to the consumers. One of the biggest challenge faced by Tourists & others who visits Chennai is autodriver trying to charge heavily for even a small distance. We had already spoken and many articles have been written in all the top dailies and magazines without any use. I think its high time Govt should step in and implement digital meters similar to the ones in Hyderabad.

Expansion of Velachery Taramani Link Road

When the expansion of Velachery Taramani Link Road, I was happy that it would reduce the traffic and thereby the journey time. But, how long our politicians or civic officials start these sort of construction works during rainy days. I think the work started before 2 months approx[I'm not able to remember exact time it had started] & for more than past 2 weeks no work had been carried out due to rain from NorthEast monsoon. Also, travel time doubled due to the recent rains in the Velachery-Taramani link road. NorthEast monsoon is the one by which TamilNadu receives more rainfall than SouthWest monsoon. And I hope civic officials know these already. But, whatever regime comes to power they didnt do proper planning to make sure that the money invested in big projects like these [construction of flyovers, expansion of roads, etc] are not wasted. Its really worst that the taxpayers money are wasted. I really wonder if God will change India!!!