India Shining?

I remember the day when our former president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam visited the city,it was a blessing in disguise and one of those red letter days in the history of Allahabad as it was a day marked by proper administration of the city,unprecedented and unknown to its residents,who have for ages seen and absorbed the fact that mismanagement is the only way of management in the city.
Dr. Kalam was to visit some schools and colleges of the city and the officials had a perfect ten management for these routes which had to had a smooth traffic sans jam and the immensely blessed roads were cleaned of all garbage and rubbish,which had grown exponentially oven an indefinite period of time and had been a major cause of encroachment on roads.The traffic jams were non-existent and a person who would have coincidentally visited the city for the first time ever that day would have got a false impression of it being a metropolitan!The traditional three wheeler public transports which had been the primary source of congestion had mysteriously given way for smooth running of traffic.So where did these tempos and rickshaws disappear?They didn't,but the whole traffic was managed more than efficiently by the police.
Anyone who commutes daily on these routes would have been awestruck by the power of efficient administration and the difference it could make if only practiced on a regular basis.But then the question arises,why isn't it done that way?Why is that only VIPs' and VVIPs' landing their feet on the city makes its officials stand on their feet?Why isn't the public made to benefit by the proper management,which we now know,does exist.
Everyday or the other we read in the newspapers about the huge funds sanctioned for the development of roads in addition to the huge funds for the development of universities,schools and colleges,hospitals,parks,fly-overs,drainage facilities and many more.But after these declarations are made ,the funds don't make their presence felt to the public until a second declaration arrives,which also ends the same way.So where do these funds go?The public doesn't know the accounts nor does it need to,but what they see is only the end result without getting into the back-office processes.Its true that occasionally roads are prepared but they aren't repaired which they indispensably need to after a few days of getting prepared.The procedure is simple according to the system but in reality it takes indefinite time to get the work done,if at all.Most of the year majority of the street lights are missing and people get acquainted with them only around the time of Magh Mela,or sometimes even Kumbh Mela.The elected representatives rarely turn up after the elections and people get used to deal with whatever the size of the manholes on the roads be or however long they stuck in the traffic jams.They even don't care to write a letter to the officials about the problems they confront and neither do they hope to get things set right.So the city will keep waiting until another VIP lands his feet on the city so that it gets a taste of what it hopes to attain.