The other day I was in Chandigarh waiting for the bus when a rickshaw puller came and asked if I would be interested. The next minute I was roaming the city roads with him. He was an interesting person and engaging too. While passing by a road he told me pointing out that the streetlights I see were recently put. When i asked him why, he explained that it is because of an accident !He further said that whenever an accident happens, and somebody dies only then, the authorities take action. He told me that he is a native of UP and is pulling rickshaw for last 20 years in Chandigarh and there are many persons like him in the city. He has seen many such examples where the authorities have taken action only when someone had died or some fatal accident happens. He told me that if this had not been the case many lifes would have been saved.
I wonder why government never takes inputs from people who travel daily by city roads, specially these rickshaw pullers. They possibly are the people who know the condition of roads - which street light is not working and needs repair etc.
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