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Games on mind, MCD wants uniform signboards for a beautiful Delhi

New Delhi: With an eye on the beautification of the city before the Commonwealth Games, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has come up with a unique proposal. It plans to have a fixed size for all signboards outside shops in different markets. Those exceeding the prescribed measurements will be taxed. As ....Read more

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Confused MCDBy: Mike Vig | Monday , 1 Jun '09 19:58:09 PM Reply | Forward Sorry but Amiya Chandra sounds like just another babu stuck in the same old rotten routine and issuing statements like “If all signboards are of uniform size, the entire market will look beautiful,” which sounds more like a communist thinking. Moreover, he does not mind taking the freedom away from traders but his outdated tastes must prevail. These people from the MCD who believe in impressing foreigners with their last word have no idea about aesthetics. They don’t mind tons of exposed garbage lying around or strong smell of the urine all over, no or broken pavements to walk but the billboards must look the same. Stop finding artificial or temporary ways to impress foreigners. Lets first do our home work right. I don’t know of any foreigner who refused to visit Delhi because he found the size of billboards too big. Does anyone else?

Lets be RealisticBy: Mike Vig | Sunday , 31 May '09 7:29:13 AM Reply | Forward Steps like these remind you of Emergency era of 1975 when Sanjay Gandhi and his henchmen did the same thing and suddenly all billboards looked the same and ugly. One could sense your freedom of speech was attacked. Without being draconian, Delhi government has to use its energy and resources to address real problems like keeping the city clean, impose traffic rules that help pedestrians. We do not need to impress foreigners with superficial temporary changes. Uniform billboards do nothing to impress. Aesthetic billboards can impress more than undersized ones. You can’t attack freedom of the traders. Games or no games, what we need is a uniformity in keeping the city clean. Some superficial rules for a few days will achieve nothing nor change our habits. Foreigners will like India the way it is. Keeping it clean and breathable will surely help. Besides, over 90% spectators in the games are going to be we Indians, why overdo things and overlook age old city problems?

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