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Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh today lashed out at the media for "If you believe only what you read in the papers, you will think that Dharam Singh added that apart from the fewer accidents, inferior roads were The CM said he would recommend the Bangalore infrastructure model to other (Special to MadMan’s Web) Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh today lashed out at the media for harping incessantly about the poor infrastructure in Bangalore. Singh said that the media should paint a more balanced picture and not stress only the negative aspects of the city. "If you believe only what you read in the papers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madmanweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nharping incessantly about the poor infrastructure in Bangalore. Singh said that
\nthe media should paint a more balanced picture and not stress only the negative
\naspects<\/a> of the city. <\/p>\n
\npeople are only getting stuck in traffic jams every day. Why does nobody talk
\nabout the reasoning behind the our potholed roads?", asked the furious
\nChief Minister at a press conference today. When asked to explain, Singh said
\nthat thanks to the potholed roads and impoverished infrastructure of the capital
\ncity, many human lives had been saved. Referring to the recently
\nreleased statistics<\/a> that death from road accidents had gone down by 12% from 903 to
\n791, Singh gave credit to the poor roads and constant traffic jams in city. "You media people should put more value on human lives.
\nEarlier, people used to get hit by speeding vehicles. Thanks to our roads, we
\nhave eliminated the possibility of reckless driving. Tell me, how can you hit an
\ninnocent pedestrian or another vehicle when you’re driving on potholed roads at
\n20 Km\/hour or if you’re caught in a traffic jam on Airport Road?", said the
\nCM. <\/p>\n
\nalso an important part of stimulating the state economy because they generated
\nvaluable jobs for the poor. He earnestly requested the middle class and
\nupper-middle class citizens to spare a thought for the numerous labourers and
\nconstruction workers who made their living from jobs generated by the road
\nrepair and maintenance contracts that are being issued every year. "It is
\neasy for the people driving their expensive cars to complain about the state of
\nthe roads. I ask these people to put themselves in the shoes of the poor person
\nwho works on tarring roads. These people live a hand-to-mouth existence. If
\nthere are no roads to repair, how will they feed their families?", asked
\nSingh. <\/p>\n
\nstates as well. He said that like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he too believed
\nin infrastructure reforms "with a human face". "Like it or not,
\nbad infrastructure saves lives<\/i>", he concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"