No architect of planning!

The related technical government departments and ministries are short of high-level technical specialists for evaluation of long-term policies on land use and architectural bandwidths being allowed to proliferate in the city. Even the rivers are not spared, and land grabbers abound around the shores building up unauthorised structures.

The political masters are not at all concerned about their negative image, year after year, regime after regime. We have politics without theories, it appears. It is a familiar story of political ineptness in public administration. Now the Ministry of Communication is under the magnifying glass for suspected monopolistic deals on import of CNG vehicles through a sole importer.

The remedy is simple, but difficult to implement: remove political influence from all sectors at all levels.