A major news in Hyderabad today is about the inauguration of a(n) (in)famous flyover to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. In reporting it, news channels and papers have been stating its length to be 11.633 km. Amazing, isn't it? Engineers gave them the length, which screams for perfection, while our respected politicians are all in for rounding things up. This news made me both laugh (for the last '3', at least) and plunge into deep thought about the workings of the system. The rounding up probably tells the way decisions are made. Decisions made purely politically, without consulting relevant experts, may have rounding up problems. Hilarious, but, sad.
One may argue that for relatively longer-term decisions, there's a larger probability of things going wrong, thanks to Lord Murphy. Again, I owe that argument to political will. For example, the flyover in question took 38 months against the planned 26.
Another round up example came up a few days after the recent floods. AP govt. announced building of 1 lakh houses for the displaced people. Now, shouldn't the number of houses built depend on, at least, an economic basis, if not on the basis of the exact number of people who got displaced? This is not even hilarious, pure sadness.
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