Theft of telephone cable
Here is another example of poor governance in a deteriorating society. Our residential fixed line telephone of TNT went out of order (no dial tone) after four days of the preceding repair. I went to the nearby field T&T office to register the complaint, and was told that a section of the telephone cable had been stolen.
This is a new social menace. If such thefts occur at 50 points in the vast city each week, how the telephone service would run efficiently? It is not possible to guard every 100 yards of line by the night guards who patrol the mohalla section of locality at night blowing away their whistle (he is alone, and could be easily overpowered by the miscreants).
Other examples are the theft of manhole covers and steel railings around public parks (no floodlights). The mega-expensive subway rail project can come later, what has happened to the sense of priority in public services? Learn first to overcome the small problems, before thinking big, when we are lousy in maintenance service.
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