Let There Be Information

Here is a suggestion worth implementing. Writing about the deteriorating roads, and money wasted on banners, and other things, Sakuntala Narasimhan writes in the latest Consumer Bytes:

What is needed is massive public involvement, through neighbourhood groups in every ward. Every road should have the local corporator’s name, address and telephone number displayed, alongside the road name. Details of officials holding responsible positions should also be available on a notice board, at the post office or neighbourhood service stations. Unless neighbourhoods wake up ... the administration is going to deteriorate further – and we will have to flee from the chaos that the garden City has become in the last ten years.

That's right. Let the people know whom to blame and whom to call and demand accountability.