Wednesday, 8 December 2010

9th December 2010 - Manpower

December is obviously cable laying time in Mumbai, it seems everywhere I go the road is beinmg dug up (by hand) and electrical or communication cables are being laid. This creates huge traffic problems as there is little in the way of traffic control. This morning a group of around 40 workers were hauling a huge cable off of a equally huge cable drum. In the UK this would be mechanised, here, like the act of digging up the road, they simply rely on huge number of labourers to do it. Question is, who is right?

A little while back I mentioned the multi purpose trees. Today one such tree was laying on its side, the trench that had been dug to take the new cables had undermined it! The tree, still complete with all of its cables and signs laying uselessly on the floor not even being good at being a tree anymore let alone all its other roles.

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