NOT FLOODS BUT MISGOVERNANCE WAS THE MAJOR DISASTER WHICH HAD OCCUERED

                   What contributed much to Chennai floods?

It is said that a part of flood could have been avoided if the government had taken any meticulous effort. That too Tamil Nadu being second to none in human capital, entrepreneurial talent and natural resources, it is obvious that government should have some infrastructure in place to contain this kind of disaster. Nowadays well-being of the people is not decided by the resources that one state has but the kind of politics which is in play.

LACK OF AWARENESS BETWEEN PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE GOODS

Public goods -means infrastructure, basic health facilities ,education and any long lasting policies for the well-being of people.

Private goods –means as we all know things like mixie,  grinder, television etc. Most importantly liquor distribution.

Government has created a illusion which made people handicapped in differentiating between the above two. At last,  people are made to believe that private goods are nitty-gritty for the human life. So , private goods are distributed in the name public goods. It is easy for anyone to get in touch personally if someone gifts another, that is the way the government of Tamil Nadu got in touch with the people playing vote bank politics. When tsunami hit Tamil Nadu in 2004,the report says that in  Nagapattinam district, half of the money given to the people as a relief package by the government  is consumed by men spending on liquor. This looks like government gives the money and gets it back through TASMAC. Government not only gains money out of it but also encourages violence against women at home. At the end,  government does nothing to the people but adds violence and disharmony in the society. All these happens because people get attracted towards short time benefits ignoring long time goals. But sadly very few people realised how much a party would gain out of distributing private goods rather than expanding public goods which made the people pay the price for this ignorance very recently in the form of floods.