A recent study has revealed that the beautiful, 'idyllic' city of Chennai has left behind most other Indian cities in the field of innovative population control measures, courtesy the MTC. This has led certain parts of society to demand celebrations and even awards for the MTC top brass for bringing home these laurels.
India's population is rising rapidly, despite several moves by successive governments to check it, and will pose a major problem in terms of strain on land resources in the near future. Hence the need of the hour is to find more efficient ways of utilising land and, more importantly, finding methods to reduce/control the population growth.
Different leaders have had different approaches to this problem but the most innovative and effective method, that only requires readily available resources is the one proposed by the MTC, not so much in words as in action. The best part? It doesn't require much from the medical sector, if anything at all.
Buses, as we all know, are an essential feature of most major Indian cities. These vehicles make for cheap and convenient transportation for the working masses, and usually cover an appreciably large area of a city in terms of transport provision. However, they are also notorious for being one of the most dangerous road species any driver has to deal with, often being the cause of, or being involved in, accidents, some even fatal. Cities like Delhi and Bangalore have rather dismal track records in this regard having an fatal accident ratio of 0.0118 and 0.012 per bus (in 2012), respectively.
It is here that the MTC brass came up with their innovative solution: Why not use buses to enable proper population control? This on-going project, started at some point in the distant past, is slowly gaining momentum. This is made evident in last year's statistics where the efficiency of the MTC buses was noticeably more than those of the buses from India's National, IT and even Finance capitals! Compared to the relatively high values (with respect to Mumbai) of 0.0118 and 0.012 fatal accidents per bus (Delhi and Bangalore), the MTC's figure of 0.028 is in a different ball park all together.
When asked about this little known project and the relevant statistics, a senior staff member, who wishes to remain anonymous, told us, with no small amount of pride, that this was but the beginning of a golden era in population control, headed by none other than the MTC. He was exceptionally proud off the fact that the efficiency of Chennai buses was almost three times that of any of the other city's buses and soon, he hopes, "Chennai will be another one of the nations numerous capitals, the bus-accident capital".
When asked about the secret behind this stellar achievement by the MTC drivers he told us that the drivers were always encouraged to watch and imitate the F1 stars whenever possible, "and we even have a few Schumachers of our own" he gushed, while Hollywood movies were another added inspiration to any of the English speaking drivers. Another rule that helps is the Rule of 40 as per which the drivers are supposed to driver above the speed of 40 kmph whenever and wherever possible.
"However, our drivers also enjoy the natural advantage of being Tamil after all, we have more than enough inspiration to overachieve." he added. When asked if he'd like to elaborate a bit he had but one word to say: Tollywood.
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