Come rains and it seems all our dreams of smart cities is vanishing. In all our major cities we see that with a little heavy downpour waterlogging takes place. Water even enters the homes and people face a lot of trouble. And if the downpour is heavy, the woes multiply several times and it takes days to return back to normalcy.
On one hand we talk of making our cities smart, and on the other hand when we see all this people only pray that just give us a decent place to stay where we do not have to face such hardships. We have layers and layers of re-pavements on roads, making it to rise often; and this forces our premises to go a level down allowing the water to come in. The better way, may be costly, is to first scrap the layer and then only apply fresh material on the road, so that the final level of the road remains unchanged.
Apart from roads much has to be done in our drainage system. Here, not only the government but we are also to be blamed equally. The drains are covered, but is it full proof? One would watch spaces left in these coverings of drains and it is from these spaces that trash enters the drains. We throw our garbage, mainly plastic, in the drain itself. To a certain extent it is because of lack of proper arrangements to dump the garbage and then sheer no concern for civic sense.
To make our cities smart, we will have to first become smart. Become a little more civilized. Think of others too.
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