Wander Woman

Today morning, on my way to office, I was confronted with( and consequently delayed by) an auto strike. Rush hour traffic was stopped, commuters were inconvenienced because two groups of drivers of different routes , were up in arms against each other. The problem had its seed in the high court ruling declining to extend the deadline for phasing out of commercial vehicles which are more than 15 years old. All the autos have to be converted to CNG/LPG mode but the supply of CNG islimited in the city. The govt is planning a crackdown on polluting vehicles without expanding the number of CNG pumps in the city. As result there are huge queues at certain fuel stations and when these run out of gas, trouble erupts. It has always been the bane of Indian policy making that decisions are taken and enforced by such people who are not directly affected by their decisions. And these decesions in turn affect the vast majority in more ways than one. The decision to phase out polluting vehicles is