It’s been just around 4 days that I’ve been in Mumbai after a year away, and I feel things have only changed for the worse. And all the credit for this goes to the one and only Bombay Municipal Corporation, also known as the infamous BMC. The BMC has been bestowed with the responsibility of ‘serving’ the citizens of Bombay. Not with tea and coffee but with facilities and amenities and that too not for free but from the taxpayer’s pockets!
Now, it’s not that the rain is like a surprise gift to Bombay but more like a gift that Bombay gets every year. Yet, every time the monsoon season gets underway, it feels as if the BMC never expected the rains to arrive.
Now the rain arrives and within the first week, you see two main things, potholes, and flooding. Both these occurrences are probably pretty important to the BMC and should be their topmost priority and responsibility, especially during the monsoon months, but it feels like they barely care.
So Where Does The TaxPayers Money Go?
It’s pretty obvious, I feel, it goes directly in the pockets of those who are part of this system, the simple word for this is corruption, the one thing our country has been unanimously joined with throughout history and yet again it appears again. A wise man once said, “Corruption is the terrorism that destroys the country from the inside,” and the statement certainly applies here as it destroys the very thing that it was established on, it’s citizens. Making the taxpayers’ life not worth the tax they pay.
So What Can We Do?
I strongly feel that the best way to get rid of corruption is to show transparency, where does all the money go? That question shall only be answered when all the money is accounted for and tracked. Although it is a difficult and seemingly near-impossible task, we should start somewhere, to make sure that the taxpayer gets their tax’s worth.