World Tourism Day 2012 has a theme, “Tourism and Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development”. I wonder where the city of Lakes Udaipur stands in this cut-throat competition in the Tourism sector.

Apart from the lakes, which are moaning on their ill-fated situation, what are we to stand for? Plasters of our Heritage buildings are in tatters and the city is suffering from multiple dilemmas engulfed with mounting crime, unorganized city planning, uncontrollable traffic situation and multi-folded corruption.

Besides all these apathies, the development is just well graphed on papers; innovation is certainly alien to us.

This perfectly resembles a situation of a child growing into its teenage and the busy parents don’t know how to foster him better to make his future glorious.

One of the officially claimed parents of Udaipur is its Municipal Council, well known as Nagar Parishad.

It is responsible of many things including development and care of roads, sewerage, cleanliness, encroachments, many parks and gardens are also under its care. The building of the Municipal Council is always a place full of activity as lots of internal and external works are being conducted here every day. Hundreds of files, thousands of orders and a number of people get their work done in the council. [Read more...]