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In Indian homes, the floor of the house is always the best maintained element, cleaned
twice a day and wiped down to a sparkling state. In front of (he threshold of "the home, the
floor is often decorated with Rangoli and otherritual diagrams. This is true in rural as well as
in many urban homes in metropolitan cities. When building a new home, people spend as
much money per square foot far a beautiful floor as they would spend on the entire structure,
Yet, this pride and obsession for a clean floor suddenly vanish as .we step out into the
street: the floor of the city.
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In Delhi, where 80% of the people ane pedestrians In some stage of their commuting, the les
attention is paid to pedestrian palhs. Delhi's sidewalks are too narrow, very poorly
maintained and full of potholes, poles, junction boxes and dangerous electrical installations,
not to speak of the garbage dumps that stink and stare at the pedestrian.
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Delhi's citizens leave home and want to get to their destination as fast as they can. No one wan
Is to linger on the road, no leisure walks, no one looks at a stranger in the eye. It is on the
pedestrian path (hat the citizen encounters head-on the poor pubic management and the excuse
called 'multiplicity of authorities'. One agency makes the road, another digs it up to lay
cables, a third one comes after months to clear up the mess and the cycle of
unaccountability goes on. Meanwhile, crores are spent in repairing the carriageway for
vehicles and in construction of flyovers without a care for the pedestrians below. The solution
offered is to make an expensive underpass or an ugly foot overbridge, ostensibly for
facilitating (he pedestrian, while in reality, it only facilitates the cars to move faster at the
expense of the pedestrians.
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In modem cities across the world, the pedestrian is king The floor of the city is designed
and -maintained as an inclusive environment helping the physically challenged the old and
the infim, children and the ordinary citiza to move joyfully across the city, Delhi aspires to be
a world class aty. Hopefully, the authorities would look once again at the floor of Delhi. The
pleasure of strolling on the road is deeply connected to our sense of citizenship and sense of
belonging. Pride in thecity grows only on a well designed floor of the aty.
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headings. Use recognizable abbreviations wherever necessary (minimum 4) Supply an
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