Hmm...and a big Hmm..on the SKC report.
I just returned from desh but my entire trip was a horrible experience. I had planned to get more insight into all this during my Dec vacation trip to India but my in-laws aling with my wife and kid met with a road accident and my trip was limited to communiting between Appolo Hospital and in-laws place in Hyd. Luckily the accident was not fatal to anyone but major facial injuries to my inlaws. Wife and kid re relatively fine with minor injuries and recovering.
After hearing to all the similar (and often fatal) road incidents in the new highways involving my relatives and sheer amount of loss of life I am wondering about the true cost of "progress" especially vis-a-vis highways. More on this later in appropriate thread.
I haven't had a chance to read the report completely yet and will comment upon it as soon as I am done. But based on some headlines my thoughts are that:
- Report seems to have added to confusion and definitely did not serve the purpose of "maximum justice to maximum people"
- scope creep away from Telangana (the main issue and what should have been the focus) and heavy focus on Rayalaseema;
- Telangana apparently claimed more developed relative to other parts defeating total common sense and visible reality
- I wonder how the data availability issue was resolved but if you recall my earlier posts on this thread, this was a major challenge; Hopefully will get required from the report. This is critically important because if this is suspect and entire edifice will crumble.
- I want to understand which specific issues/complaints that T-folks made was addressed/debunked by the report and how that addresses the problem. (will post in a day or two after reading the report).
in other comment, I note that approach taken by the worthies in the committee is similar to what was discussed on this thread
especially around the geographic segmentation and incl/excl Hyd etc. Hope some of the members who agitated about it on this thread also find it an issue with the report.