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Thank you @nitin_gadkari ji for admitting finally that India is an engineering failure. Engineers don’t have design sensibilities, in fact most engineers think they’re problem solvers. Actually they’re great at continuously bungling things up. Why do I say this and How do I substantiate what I am saying. Most of the problems which these engineers claim to be solving are already solved worldwide. Ctrl C - V is all. Consider the following : Uninterrupted Power Supply Uninterrupted Water Supply Garbage repurposing Sewage treatment High quality roads Footpaths Cycle tracks Tree Transplantation. High Speed Rail. High Speed Internet. Zero rail fatalities Zero road fatalities. Autonomous driving cars. Planned city development Sponge cities Urban flooding and control. I could go on and on listing all manner of things that we experience everyday in our lives that are near or total failures. For instance, we are barely audible to each other on our phone networks. High quality telecom networks are taken for granted worldwide but despite having @airtelindia @reliancejio and @VodafoneGroup here in India and this being a part of the private sector development. As users we suffer poor quality of networks and intermittent internet access. We settle for this sub standard quality because it’s cheap and that’s why it’s leveraged and unreliable but for this sub par service at cut rate prices Indians settle and don’t complain. Nobody has the enterprise in them to launch a high quality telecom company with a superb service Experience. Who will take on these entrenched interests. 1.5 lakh people lose their lives on India’s roads every year. In Pune. Road geometry; We have over 2100 kms of Road. 50% of all road length have No Footpaths. Not one road is identical to another road. In fact, One side of the road is not identical to the other side of the road. You can’t negotiate a single road with a wheelchair. This is the road geometry. By the law of the tree act (schedule 1) that every 10 metres there should be a tree. We have 21 lakh metres of road so should have about 2.1 lakh trees X 2 = 4.2 lakh trees adorning our road sides on both sides. I have my serious doubts that we have anywhere close to that number. Trees cool down frayed tempers and keep driving styles sedate. Accidents which occur at high speeds are often fatal. More than one life is lost on Pune roads to accidents and fatalities every day. Driving Speed’s above 50 kmph can be fatal. All these occurrences take place because Engineers have zero design sensibilities. Porsche… I can give you two examples: 1. In Kalyaninagar they’re building an underpass at 12 metre depth on the chowk at Shastrinagar. There is a 1200 mm pipeline to evacuate storm water below the underpass at about 14 metres. The outlet tip of the pipeline is connected to the river and its height hadn’t been matched with the river flood level post RFD. Which simply means this underpass could also be prone to urban flooding. 2. At the same location. Their claim is that this underpass’s construction is absolutely necessary because the traffic volume / flow rate has increased to over 20,000 vehicles per hour. They haven’t simulated those many vehicles by loading that on a computer model of the finished project. How do they know the underpass might be the solution or may create further more problems as unintended consequences. To solve these problems you need design sensibilities or a desire to follow studied and established protocols such as the IRC rules and guidelines for building roads. Until we do that, the death rates will only keep increasing. Two examples of Pune’s roads built by the best engineers but are death traps are A. Katraj Kondhwa Road. B. Katraj Tunnel to Navale bridge.. The second is some sort of construction marvel, but has the maximum pile ups in Pune’s history. The first is renowned for maximum deaths. Pic. Zebra crossing at Kalyaninagar