Comments by "Arunabha Ghosh" (@orunabho) on "What sank Bengaluru’s boat, politics, misgovernance u0026 why our cities suck" video.

  1. Fundamental changes are needed in the way we have organized our country. Each of our 29 odd states are like a country by itself (in terms of its population) therefore are too big to manage and plan. But we have around 700+ districts in India including the bigger cities. Make each of them, districts and metropolis a state, so 700 odd states. And these 700 state CMs sitting in our parliament also as the 3rd body, the actual Rajya Sabha - keeping their regions interest at the primary responsibility. The current Rajya Sabha is a confused institutions with no accountability. Some sort of proxy to slow down the elected representatives. If one need to replicate the House of the Lord's do it directly. But instead of just feudal lords and zamindars, select or elect the members differently. Leaders of various unions and associations, NGOs, universities and institutions etc etc. e.g., Group that represents the income taxpayers, associations of traders, association of landed farmers, association of landless citizens, association of school teachers, association of private school owners, association of fishermen, association of LGBTs, association of civil servants, association of exservicemen
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  2. Yes unfortunately bangalore administration has gone to dogs, it is becoming a giant urban slum. With pathetic roads, poor drainage, garbage all around, poor electricity supply, no piped water supply in added areas and no urban planning whatsoever. On top of that, most residents are non kannadigas, therefore zero stake in the state politics and as rightly said, is orphaned. The other more fundamental problem is, most urban kannadigas are in some professional sectors, software, medical etc. They are not in the administration of the state, and definitely not in the administration of their urban areas. The city officers, adminiatration and police, are mostly from small town and villages - non local to the city of Bangalore and are with rural mindset. So the planning suffers greatly. Moreover, the revenue generated though the loot called registration/stamp duty of apartments is used to fund rest of Karnataka, not bangalore. The city is politically irrelevant for the state politics. As rightly said. We should set our cities free, as independent states itself, and therefore managing itself directly and independently.
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