A government that is people centric and public oriented should do everything possible to alleviate any hardship faced by its citizens. Currently it is a nightmare for people travelling between North and South Goa due to the serpentine queues of vehicles around Cortalim and Agasaim. Ironically the first phase of the new Zuari Bridge despite being ready has not been thrown open for commuters as Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari can come down only on December 29 to inaugurate it. If for whatever reasons the government wants it inaugurated by Gadkari, couldn’t that ritual have been done by virtual mode? The Atal Setu across the River Mandovi was hurriedly inaugurated on January 27, 2019 and we were promised it would be a wonder that would last over a century. But within a year the defects in that bridge started showing up and the potholes are now galore. Nitin Gadkari had inaugurated Atal Setu and we can now only pray that history does not repeat itself with those structural defects at this Zuari Bridge which has cost the taxpayer a whopping over Rs 2,530 crores.
