While parking of cars has been a major problem in our towns and city, another problem related to vehicles in the offing is the parking and unloading of goods from trucks. Goa is dependent on its neighbouring states for most of its consumable goods including vegetables and grains while at the same time is host to a number of industrial units.
As such a lot of raw materials arrive into the state for the industries via the sea route, rail route as well as by road. All inland transport is then by road and thus we see a large number of trucks parked at every available place outside the outskirts of our towns and near industrial estates.
Other states overcome this problem of haphazard parking by allotting areas earmarked as truck depots for trucks and trolleys. But unfortunately, Goa does not have even one single truck terminus. Even when our managers do find a solution by identifying a place in Curti, Ponda as a truck depot, our politicians stepped in and made it a political issue.
And as with any of our problems being taken over by politicians, this issue also has been taken over and is hanging in the air with no solution in sight. There is something very wrong in the way our politicians handle any matter.
The way they go about it, it is as if they don’t want any solution to any of our problems. They are under the wrong impression that if any problem were solved – be it the garbage issue, or medium of instruction issue, or traffic congestion in our cities, then the importance of our politicians will be lost.
They want people to come to them with problems but will provide only temporary solutions. If they had solved all problems, they fear people will no longer come to them. Though it appears that the politicians fear is baseless, and that people will reelect politicians who are efficient and provide excellent and permanent solutions, then the people themselves have proved it wrong.
When Shri Manohar Parrikar was the Chief Minister, he had provided solutions to a number of problems – be it by making Panaji the most attractive city in India, providing the bypass road to Old Goa to ease traffic congestion at Ribandar, or formation of GIDC to bring quality construction work, or zero tolerance of corruption in government offices by arming vigilance department with additional staff. Now there is fear that he might even lose in his own constituency, let alone be the Chief Minister.
So we can expect no solution to this problem as well.
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