26 Jun 2017 | 06:27am IST
A Smart City?
Fourteen street lights on the road from the Portuguese Consulate at Altinho Panjim to the High Court are not functional for the last ten days. Reminders to the Electricity Department fall on deaf and damp ears.
Fourteen street lights on the road from the Portuguese Consulate at Altinho Panjim to the High Court are not functional for the last ten days. Reminders to the Electricity Department fall on deaf and damp ears.
Is Panjim really on the road to be a Smart City? Colourful slogans about The Smart City are printed in the local press. Is this not an irony?
No lights, garbage strewn all over, food carts surrounded by dogs, drains clogged and I could go on and on about Panjim City. But is there any one listening?
In May this year, Panjim made it to the smart city list when Union minister for parliamentary affairs Venkaiah Naidu placed the state's capital among the top 13 cities selected from a list of 23.
Earlier in the year Panjim had failed to make it to the list of top 20 cities selected.
If lights on one street are not repaired for 10 days at a stretch, will it not go against the collection of points for the Smart City?
