Sikkim and governance. We have all heard such brilliant stories come out of Sikkim, we have been lulled into thinking the govt there is being run by monks.
So, take this as a sample. The govt first wanted all taxis to paint their hoods yellow. A yellow number plate won’t do. The whole hood had to be yellow. Now, they want the hood to have only a yellow circle. Our taxi driver said he isn’t getting it done because he can’t bear the cost of govt’s mood change.
Elsewhere there are laws to regulate car AC to fight corona. Yesterday, a friend came via a taxi whose driver owed 72k in challans. Another was driving at 30 because …Delhi government.
We are in a mad mad parallel world of Alice. What happened to the old world where only corruption and inefficiency were our biggest issues?
