In the name of 'Samaja Kalyana'

Daily, while commuting to work, I pass through the super, world-famous building called 'Vidhana Soudha', home of the Karnataka government/legislature. Its a very beautiful sight to see this tall, huge, amazing structure - conceptualized and built by the then loyal Chief Minister Mr. Kengal Hanumanthiah. Kudos to that great man and the persons behind this who have built this building; one of the busiest tourist spots of Bengalooru!

In front of this great building, there is a plush lawn and good amount of space where lot of public functions take place. These functions come under the purview of 'Samaja Kalyana Ilakhe' (Public Works Department). When there is a function, one can see lots and lots of banners put across in and around this place, for a day or two before and after the function.

What I have observed is there is lots of cost associated with doing this; right from printing the banners, pasting it in all places, arranging the stage with huge mega-banner displayed in the background, the cost for the chairs, carpets and last but not at all the least, huge amount of flower decoration they do for this occasion. I believe lots more things will be there that eat up money apart from the ones mentioned above!

All fine, but, at the end of the day, my point and question here is what is the benefit you are giving to the people from conducting this function? Who are the people who gonna attend these type of functions? Am sure none of the middle-class and upper-class families would know about this nor they care about this. Don't we have any other work to do apart from attending this 'pure-political-play' functions??

So, just to create numbers and make news, you get people from nearby villages, bringing them in trucks, tempos and then taking them back! Are they benefiting from this? The clear answer is NO! Nobody will be getting anything from this function! Then why do you 'waste' so much money, why don't you use it for much needed purpose, on needy people? Our infrastructure is pathetic, no proper control, no proper management, village conditions are hopeless - why don't you concentrate more on these stuffs and spend money to improve some amount to bring cheers to life of millions of people than spending on unwanted things, just to grab attention of media and just to get name on front page of newspaper?? Frankly, nobody will ask the government if they don't conduct these functions, no concerned citizen of Bengalooru will ask or care a damn on this? But still...

I cannot think even in my dreams of when we will see a much positive, cleaner, greener, forward-thinking bengalooru and other places than these time-wasting and money-wasting functions. One of the reasons of why we are lagging on the progressing path and still called 'developing' nation, from many decades and think many more to come!!