Yesterday my blogger friend told me that in her country one cannot construct where one wants to and today I am reminded of her statement as soon as I saw today’s prompt.
These were her words, “Where we live there are certain areas that must be left to agriculture. You cannot build where you want to. So much space must be left for farmers. Switzerland is a small country and you must be careful what you do with the land you have.,”
I wish that was possible in our country too. Not that we don’t have rules and laws but implementation is a kind of  hypothetical term when you have abnormal population growth. Over 1.21 billion people need house and government has it’s own constraints therefore corruption rise and people tend to construct illegal colonies. The problem cannot be dealt effectively in absence of will and a strong mechanism to fight against it.
Illegal housing in India consists of huts or shanties built on land not owned by the residents (i.e., squatting) and illegal buildings constructed on land not owned by the builders or developers. Although illegal buildings may afford some basic services, such as electricity, in general illegal housing does not provide services that afford for healthy, safe environments. 
The pictures above is a common sight of any big or small city. I wish there would have been sustainable development. It hurts when you see these cramped houses build without any blue print or proper planning where once used to be fertile fields full of yield. Even the hills did not remain untouched and they are bleeding due to reckless deforestation in the name of tourism and employment generation. Recently I went to one of the most beautiful hill station and was shocked to see the rapid construction going on there. It was no more that lush green valley of flowers, surrounded with tall pine and Deodar trees and waterfalls. This is what the landscape looked like.
Wish what my friend told me the other day is possible here too. For that we have to first control the population explosion. I would love to see long agricultural belts and evergreen forests in future too to maintain the ecological balance on the earth.
7 Responses
Yes it would be wonderful, although India is a much larger country than Switzerland. We have “only” eight million population, expanding, but we also have a direct democracy. I am not saying everything is perfect, you can have too many laws until you no longer “see the forest for the trees”, but you have to feed the people and house them and not every country is as manageable as Switzerland in size and population.
Our PM Modi is doing an excellent job for the betterment of our country. Let’s hope for the beat.
That is worrisome. Here the buildings are built higher and higher in some desired cities. The over population growing rate is scaring.
Yes it is Amy. We are losing out on flora and fauna.
So sad to see it’s happening…
I hope it’s okay for me to say this but I do hope that population doesn’t spill into the mountains, Even trees need a place to grow :O
Absolutely! We can’t be selfish anymore