Roads - Do they define a nations pride

I don't know whether it is a fact or not that the roads actually defining the progress of a countries progress towards development may be i have been given wrong information about this . When our economy reports huge profits from various trading and taxing incomes why is it so naive to check about its roads.

I decided to interview few officials in PWD about this fact and i did meet a few. Most of them were very busy (God knows why where the busy!!). If they were actually doing there job since past 2 years surely our roads will not have suffered such a bad fate. Among the few which had time for a chat was all blaming either the government for not releasing funds or the climate for being such harsh and they even blamed the trees!! what a point .
I pointed out the fact that all pwd funds were allocated to state from January 2010 and so far not even pothole closing was done in our local road (which actually the shortest way to reach MC road from NH-47 and is a part of Varkala- Nilamel tourism plan ) leave annual maintanance. The reply was much of which i expected blame the govenment or MLAs or Ministers (Nice they are doing a great job).

With all these in-activeness super-added with corruption, the development of our country is set to continue the downward spiral since independence. It's not just with this government but with every government we put up for taking care of us. All are leeches feeding our blood in the form of taxes we pay. Every year they introduce a new tax or hike something, reasons either unknown or so absurd.

We pay our govenment more than 400crore towards taxes every year on purchase of new vehicles (kerala alone) . If the government allocates atleast this amount to the road development. Guess what we could have a good hassle free drive in the Major roads in kerala.
And one more point where the hell is the annual maintanance team for the new roads.

So if Roads do define a nations pride, then our pride is an useless bitch. Which is not so important in the eyes of our own law makers and enforcers

Thank you