Potholes on the Roads and their costs to our Economy.

 

All State govt should have Pot and Man holes maintenance minister. Economic costs and loss of human lives due to road accidents especially that of Breadwinners of the family are humongous. Govts should take-up modern tech of repairing potholes in a jiffy as National Priority.

Maintenance &repair of our roads, often ignored ,lead to huge loss of priceless lives ,&deprive the nation of productivity of youth who fall victim to potholes and otherwise bad roads.

"Road accident victims largely constitute young people in the productive age underscoring major implication on economic cost of road accidents, apart from their emotional and psychological impact.(Page 62 of Report on Road Accidents in India-2021 by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Table 4.2: Age profile of Fatal Road Accident victims during 2019 to 2021

 

Age-group	Number of Persons killed			%-age change in 2020 over 2019	%-age change in 2021 over 2020
	2019	2020	2021
Less than 18	11,168	6,998	7,764	-37.3	10.9
% Share in total	7.4	5.3	5.0
18-25	33,206	27,612	31,750	-16.8	15.0
% Share in total	22.0	21.0	20.6
25-35	39,023	34,947	39,646	-10.4	13.4
% Share in total	25.8	26.5	25.7
35-45	32,509	29,379	32,741	-9.6	11.4
% Share in total	21.5	22.3	21.3
45-60	22,612	20,938	26,085	-7.4	24.6
% Share in total	15.0	15.9	16.9
Above 60	9,004	8,380	11,739	-6.9	40.1
% Share in total	6.0	6.4	7.6
Age not known	3,591	3,460	4,247	-3.6	22.7
% Share in total	2.4	2.6	2.8
Total	1,51,113	1,31,714	1,53,972	-12.8	16.9

In this regard, GOI should look at options like including Maintenance & Repair of Roads using Modern Technologies by our Public Limited Companies under Corporate Social Responsibility under Cos Act. and encourage  especially Automotive Companies to involve themselves more in this Road Maintenance and Repair of Potholes

Companies can take up Repair of Roads in and around their Offices, Factories, Warehouses etc. wherever it is possible by entering into suitable PPP Agreements with the respective Govt agencies including Panchayats, Municipalities, Corporations etc.

"Potholes account for nearly 0.8 percent road accidents, 1.4 percent of road accident deaths and 0.6 percent of injuries."as per Report "Road Accidents in India -2021 " published by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways(Page 95)

Continued from previous page in the Report there is a table giving Potholes causing No. of Accidents ,Fatalities and Injuries in 2021 :(page 96)

Road feature	Number of accidents	Persons killed	Persons injured
Potholes	511	213	338
Share in Total	0.8	1.4	0.6
Steep Grade	908	219	725
Share in Total	1.3	1.4	1.2
Ongoing Road Works/ Under Construction	1,886	639	1334
Share in Total	2.8	4.2	2.3
Others	11,482	2,037	10,778
Share in Total	17.1	13.3	18.3
Total Million Plus cities	67,301	15,350	58,758

In the below table you find Accidents due to Potholes in Million Plus cities in India in 2021.

To your utter surprise you will find that Mumbai, Chennai,Coimbatore, Faridabad, Pune, Aurangabad, Kochi etc. have recorded Zero Accidents , Deaths, Injuries due to potholes!!!

What a farce!This data has to be immediately updated by Ministry on war footing pl.

Ministry should also do the maths on Economic costs of Accidents and Fatalities etc and look at reducing them as a % of our GDP.

S. No	State/UT	Pot Holes
		Number of Accidents	Persons Killed	Persons Injured
				Greviously Injured	Minor Injury	Total Injured
1	2	25	26	27	28	29
1	Agra	6	1	4	6	10
2	Ahmedabad	1	1	0	0	0
3	Allahabad(Prayagraj)	149	74	36	47	83
4	Amritsar	0	0	0	0	0
5	Asansol Durgapur	5	5	1	0	1
6	Aurangabad	0	0	0	0	0
7	Bengaluru	15	4	9	3	12
8	Bhopal	0	0	0	0	0
9	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	0
10	Coimbatore	0	0	0	0	0
11	Chennai	0	0	0	0	0
12	Delhi	56	9	5	63	68
13	Dhanbad	11	9	2	3	5
14	Faridabad	0	0	0	0	0
15	Ghaziabad	0	0	0	0	0
16	Gwalior	0	0	0	0	0
17	Hyderabad	19	1	1	17	18
18	Indore	0	0	0	0	0
19	Jabalpur	90	46	15	13	28
20	Jaipur	1	0	0	0	0
21	Jamshedpur	0	0	0	0	0
22	Jodhpur	0	0	0	0	0
23	Kannur	0	0	0	0	0
24	Kanpur	6	3	3	1	4
25	Khozikode	0	0	0	0	0
26	Kochi	0	0	0	0	0
27	Kolkata	14	2	10	3	13
28	Kollam	0	0	0	0	0
29	Kota	0	0	0	0	0
30	Lucknow	50	15	22	15	37
31	Ludhiana	0	0	0	0	0
32	Madurai	20	4	12	3	15
33	Mallapuram	0	0	0	0	0
34	Meerut	13	5	0	8	8
35	Mumbai	0	0	0	0	0
36	Nagpur	0	0	0	0	0
37	Nashik	0	0	0	0	0
38	Patna	0	0	0	0	0
39	Pune	0	0	0	0	0
40	Raipur	0	0	0	0	0
41	Rajkot	0	0	0	0	0
42	Srinagar	0	0	0	0	0
43	Surat	0	0	0	0	0
44	Thiruvanthapuram	0	0	0	0	0
45	Thrissur	8	1	6	4	10
46	Tiruchirapalli	0	0	0	0	0
47	Vadodra	0	0	0	0	0
48	Varanasi	47	33	11	15	26
49	Vijaywada city	0	0	0	0	0
50	Vizaq	0	0	0	0	0
Total		511	213	137	201	338

Two verses of Bhagavat Gita

 Two verses of Bhagavat Gita

IMHO, Dharma,artha, kama are wordly karmas and the Universal laws are Sathyam(sathyam bhoothahitham priyam) and Ahimsa(Ahimsa paramo Dharma) guiding these karmas, for its(Universe'/Nature/Prakriti's) self preservation. If you think deeply ,all these immutable laws including Laws of Karma are for its(Universe/prakriti) self adjusting and balancing and therefore for its preservation , survival and continuity.If these rules are violated in some instances ,then the self-balancing kicks in.These violation of eternal principles are Exceptions proving the Universal Rules of Sathyam and Ahimsa. But When Rakshas like people,do gross violation of these first principles,huge fight back by Dharma happens killing Hitlers to restore the Universal Balance for its survival , preservation and Continuity.This happens due to Bhagawan's sankalpa of Dharma rules, when he created this prakriti.-Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah- and bestowed these Rules to it.

Above is a kind of explanation to Bhagavat Gita sloka, Chapter 4 Verse 8

"paritranaya sadhunam vinashaya cha dushkritam

dharma-sansthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge".

Another of Bhagavat Gita verse of Chapter 5 Verse 18 which reads: 

vidya-vinaya-sampanne brahmane gavi hastini
shuni chaiva shva-pake cha panditah sama-darshinah

A Brahmin, Cow,Elephant,Dog,Dog-eater are all same and equal, if only we realise that He dwells in each and in all of them and He also says only the truly learned and humble who practises this can be called a Pandit.

This is another example ,IMHO, demonstrating unequivocally that Bhagawan has created all the creatures in this Universe on Equal footing and if we practise the Sama Darshinah as enunciated by Him, we become One with Him.

A Brahmin and a Dog-eater are on same pedestal!!- BG does not propagate anything to the contrary.It is only about practical,day-to-day Spirituality and the clarification based on Satyam and Ahimsa- Dharma- for common doubts encountered by all humans.

If this is not a statement of true Inclusivity and Universal Commonhood then what else can be called?

IMHO, this is the sum and substance of Shaswata ,Sarvodaya,Sanatana Dharma .

திருப்பாணாழ்வார் வாழி !!

 திருப்பாணாழ்வார் வாழி !!

பத்துப்பாட்டு பத்துமா ?

பட்டபாட்டினால் பத்தாதெனில் ,

பத்து(பற்று)போட்டால் பற்று விடுமா?

பத்துப்பாட்டு எட்டுத்தொகைவிட்டு 

இப்பத்துப்பாடியே பற்றுக  பற்றினை;

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பற்றற்ற பாணன் வாழியே !

அமலநாதிபிரான் பாடிய  பாணன் வாழி !