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I woke up and discovered the deadly invasion of the grey haired league. Overnight, I had a shock of grey hair not reminiscent of the late Indira Gandhi but close.
It worried me momentarily, my vanity, my visual self but then I delved into the deeper meaning of this. And yes there was the answer (for the first time not spiritual!!!) Forgive me, God for I have sinned.
It so happened that the CM and his competent Finance Minister along with other imp. Ministers had gone to Delhi to meet the Planning Commissioner Montek Ahluwalia in regards to the plan outlay. Well. They came back victorious with the spoils and increase in the total outlay to 9150cr. No, mean feat. My main concern is that there should be development rather than full –scale colored photographs in all newspapers. We need less inaugurations and more actual work done. It seems we spend more time covering news or tracking our ministers starting projects which will culminate in the next few years (please note the vagueness…) on the so important glistening granite stones. I wish the same attention was given to detail in execution of projects. Shoddy, haphazard work is done, the line of actual responsibility gets lost in hierarchy of minions.
Instead of lamenting what the centre has done, the injustice meted out, the step-motherly treatment from which Punjab suffers, shouldn’t we rise to the challenge to take up matters in our hands and do something constructive. At least in this manner I wouldn’t go completely grey! Another important thing which I think they need to allocate is for the greening of Punjab before the slogan ‘hara –bhara’ Punjab turns into barren Punjab in all sense of the word. Pun intended.
My grey hair given by my children, the environment is a cause of worry for my maid who thinks the 2rs packet from Godrej would cure me of this, but I wonder if I should follow the path laid by the politicians and do a cover up???