THE question is not of just one road of less than a kilometer in length. The question is about the shoddy, faulty, short-sighted planning. The question is of the great inconvenience to the people, the great loss of the tax-paying people’s money, and the sick feeling that every citizen suffers from when he/she sees such pathetic and chaotic project management. This longish introduction is necessary to express the sense of deep anguish, disgust and frustration every sane Nagpurian experiences on a near-continuous basis -- when he or she sees the stupidity that has been going on for quite sometime on the newly-constructed cement road near the Sahakar Nagar Ghat. Yes, stupidity is the only word that one would use to describe what has been going on there. The road was converted into a cement surface just some time ago -- taking a long time and great inconvenience to the user-public. And just as the people were getting used to the cement road, some agency of the Government sent its team there to start digging the new cement road to lay storm-water drainage pipelines underneath. This new project that started in the summer of 2026 is said to be taking a few more months -- right up to Diwali -- for its completion.

Who is masterminding this huge nonsense ? 
Everybody is asking this question. 
Of course, there are other 
questions, as well, that the people are asking. The loosefooter has 
summarised those questions for 
everybody’s benefits: 
1. Are there two different 
authorities for making of the cement road, and for laying storm-water drainage pipelines ? 
2. If yes, who coordinates their project-works ? 
3. If the same authority or agency is implementing both the projects, then why did it not lay the pipelines earlier and then make the cement road ? 
4. Does the Nagpur Municipal Corporation not have a 
monitoring system to ensure that such projects are appropriately streamlined so that they go forward in a logical stages 1-2-3-4-5 ... ? 
5. Who is the final authority with which complaints about the mess up of the Sahakar Nagar road can be lodged ? 
6. And finally, will that so-called authority have enough authority -- and courage -- to take a stern, 
no-nonsense action against those who messed up the whole thing ?
7. And now the last question: Does anybody in the city’s power-pyramid have a sense of shame or guilt for this one and many other mess-ups and lapses all over the city ? 

The loosefooter raises such questions again and again because it is his professional mandate to ask questions -- and dare the authority. The purpose is fully apolitical -- in the larger interest of the city and its community of simple, common people. In the country’s political arena these days, a lot of debate goes on about whether democracy is working in the country or not. People take positions as per their political leanings. So, for one group, democracy is working. For the other group -- on the other side of the divide -- democracy has failed. The common people with no sworn political affiliations feel that at least in Nagpur, democracy is visible only during elections when lakhs line up to cast their votes. That done, then democracy goes for a five-year vacation. And that absence is seen at places such as the Sahakar Nagar road, for example, in addition to countless such spots all over the city.