[Reader-list] Re: facets of metro.

[Sachin Agarwal]

see another aspect of how metro changed the lives of people.
 
at   http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00003910&channel=market%20street&start=10&end=19&page=2&chapter=1&order=0
 
Apart from the status of a world-class public transport system, the Delhi Metro is also forcing unemployment upon thousands. Although it has created a few hundred technical jobs, but talk to shopkeepers and rehri-wallahs (street vendor/hawker) whose small establishments were demolished to erect tall concrete structures for the Delhi Metro. The central and state governments both want to take credit for the Delhi Metro, but who will take credit for the losses in the incomes of thousands of Delhi�s lesser mortals? 

Most owners of the �blue line� buses (earlier called �red line�), the backbone of the city�s public transport system, depend on the daily income generated by their bus. The conductor, driver and the bus-owner share their revenue at the end of each day. Their hardship in acquiring a CNG bus for twenty lakh rupees and selling their diesel bus at throwaway prices, largely remained out of the sight of the mainstream media. This has had profound effects on their living standards. 
 
sachin agarwal
 

		
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