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[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@jbaphna I read a quote just yesterday that said, "There was a time when religion was the way of life, those were called the Dark Ages", I believe we're headed back there. Truly scary

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@sushmadate Superb thread.

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

It is painful to see people uttering the name of Shri Ram while behaving like the demons he vanquished. भक्ति के दीए जलाओ पठाखे नही🙏🏽
#indian
#noisepollution #airpollution #ramrajya #jaishriram #siyaram
@PMOIndia @RSSorg @PMCPune
@ChaloPmc

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive and publicly subsidized form of settlement or habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

The level of stupidity is simply mind blowing!!! Waste of public resources and tax money. Stop such vanity projects and focus on real infrastructure.
@CMOMaharashtra @PMCPune @PMOIndia

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@aparanjape विमानतळ घेऊन करणार काय?
रस्ते अपुरे, पाणी टँकरचे, कचरा ढीगभर, झाडे गायब, पार्किंग चे हाल, गाड्या एवढ्या की चालणाऱ्या लोकांसाठी जागा नाही, मुलांना खेळायला मोकळ्या जागा कमी होत चालल्या, आहे त्या निसर्गरम्य टेकड्या गायब होणार आहेत, आधी ह्या सगळ्या गोष्टी हव्या आहेत पुण्याला.

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@PuneCivic • Dividers should have strong fencing and designated crossings, preferably where oncoming traffic can be viewed without obstruction, so that pedestrians are discouraged from trying to jump over high dividers and cause accidents.
Zebra crossings should be repainted frequently

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@PuneCivic 1.
• Tiles used for footpaths are dismal quality
• Often used as parking for roadside shops and traders
• not easily accessible for elderly and physically challenged
• never repaired after digging up for cable work etc.
• encroachments by hawkers in several areas

[ameet singh @ameetgsingh]

Now it’s Chennai.

Our cities are urban dumps of garbage, untreated sewage and pollution.

All of them.

All of this behaviour goes on until a great flood which has become a repetitive annual occurrence, comes and drowns the entire city in a deluge.

It simply compounds the problem as now the pollution, garbage & sewage are uniformly distributed in a layer across the city or simply carried into our water bodies, rivers and the sea polluting our water sources permanently.

Lakes that existed don’t anymore. Riverbanks are tied down and have become concrete run-offs. The sea is a seething miasma of sewage washing up ever more pollution and plastic on our beaches and shorelines.

We witness all this while desiring ever more prosperity, larger cars, constant air conditioning and trees being sacrificed.

The economy loses billions of dollars due to these climate events. Chennai has a GDP of 7 lakh crores. The city will lose 2000 crores / day due to this lack of climate preparedness.
A fortnight of this damage, is 30k crores gone down the drain.
Untold numbers of people will busy themselves salvaging what’s already lost., production lines will stop humming and flight schedules will get thrown into disarray. All forward and backward linkages will break down.

They’ll repair things somehow with get-a-fix solutions. Basically pour even more concrete.

Then the flood visits again. Washes away the city. Renders slum dwellers homeless along with fancy villa residents. Insurance companies refuse to settle claims for submerged cars, neighbourhoods & property. The election results preoccupy mind-space, Nobody asks any real questions. Life goes on.

All of this can be avoided if carrying capacities of neighbourhoods are taken into account before planning a city. If natural flows of rivers and water are given their due respect and made into no-go buffer forest zones.
If Sponge cities are deliberated upon. If constant increase in FSI is avoided and urban sprawl made into a mitigated co2neutral water positive zero discharge community based development.

So many If’s.

The best part is it’s really easy to do…

The math doesn’t go wrong though.

India deserves to become 1000 Copenhagen’s not these urban islands which keep visiting disasters upon themselves.

This obsession with pouring concrete over everything is going to cost us. Hugely. Just like all other Indian cities cc Delhi, Mumbai, Pune & Bengaluru. Welcome this annual deluge, Chennai is centre stage today.

Chennai isn’t on planet Mars. It’s barely 1200 kms from Pune. 345 kms from Bangalore. 630 kms from Hyderabad. Barely a few degrees of latitude.

Building stupid high rises with no idea about how the sewage is to be treated or where the garbage is to be disposed don’t provide any answers.

So, Either Wait until the deluge comes to drown you too or fix the approach to development.

Is anybody listening.

#Puneसंवाद

@IndiaStatsHub @CafeEconomics @wef @TheEconomist @rethinkecon @mumbaimatterz @Warriormomsin @ProEarthEco @ChintanIndia @parisarpune @punekar @MoHUA_India @PMAYUrban @NITIAayog @HUDgov @SCJudgments @TheINIofficial @IndianTechGuide @stats_feed @NFSSMalliance @ppcr_pune @PavanjitMane1 @HinjeIndsAssoc @NDNS_HQ @chennaiweather @ChennaiTimesTOI @UpdatesChennai @iitmadras

In case you’ve read this far, don’t forget it was Dubai a few weeks ago. Nobody is spared by the weather.

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

Ridiculous! Worse bottleneck now with an entire lane blocked by parked cars filled with people watching a spectacle! Complete the work you started PMC. At least have traffic police shooing people away.
@PMCPune @RtoPune @PunePolice4U @NHAI_Official
#Pune

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

Moving business hubs to Tier 2 and tier 3 cities should be the main focus. Metro and Tier 1 cities are saturated. Equal development for all.
#realequality #badhegaindia #equaldevelopment

[Natasha Ramarathnam (she/her) @nuts2406]

We saw similar scenes in Bangalore last year, and now it's the turn of Chennai.
Development cannot come at the cost of the environment- if we try, nature strikes back

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@AhaanTaagre @Thenewsagepune @PuneCityPolice @PMCPune Slow 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@patilmb91 @Thenewsagepune Please give some proof that we are politically motivated activists.

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@patilmb91 @Thenewsagepune 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@Thenewsagepune It seems like the municipal administrators are all a bunch of teenagers playing some SimCity game, instead of qualified adults who work for the Government and the people of the city. Break this, construct that, collect points to win a promotion, the residents be damned.

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

Please ओला टॉवेल bed वर ठेवू नकोस
Please मोजे बुटात ठेवू नको, laundry basket मध्ये टाक

[Angry Punekar- संतप्त पुणेकर @AngryPunekar]

Few more

प्लिज पसारा करू नकोस, आत्ताच आवरलं आहे
प्लिज निदान आज तरी 3/4th ऐवजी चांगले कपडे घाल
😂

[SANDRP @Indian_Rivers]

A closer look revealed that Pune River front dev project is faulty on many counts. @SVYadwadkar points out that the project is technically flawed. It will, in fact, throttle the river, flood the city during the monsoon and actually not clean up the river. https://t.co/9wPg9OZyDS

[Prajakta Divekar @prajpanshikar]

Incase anybody is wondering where rationality and scientific temper of Pune (Oxford of the East🙄) is to be found, it is rotting in Mutha river and letting out toxic ripples. To make it easier for you to see the gas bubbles, state govt is bringing the #PuneRFD. (1/2)

[Pramilla @Pramilla30]

@clean_pune @ThePuneMirror @Archana_Mirror @mohol_murlidhar @PMCPune @toi_pi1994 @SakalMediaNews @SidShirole @BJPPrabhag9 Same case pretty much everywhere in Pune. No zoning sense followed anywhere.