Capital transfer

Take a tip from Muhammad bin Tughlaq for a long-term resolution to Delhi-NCR air pollution drawback

With NCR as soon as once more choking in its seasonal stranglehold of smog, the Capital ought to take a tip from Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

History has but to determine whether or not Tughlaq was a crackpot, or a genius, or a little bit of each as is commonly the case. He was actually means forward of his time. Skilled in medical science and fluent in 5 languages, he was the primary to introduce a token forex within the subcontinent as a cost-cutting measure within the type of brass and copper cash to switch these product of gold and silver and being value an equal quantity. The measure failed as widespread counterfeiting rendered the brand new coinage nugatory.

Undeterred, Tughlaq undertook one other daring experiment, and in 1327 he shifted the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, in what’s now Maharashtra. The transfer failed for logistical causes, however the plan was sound, as the brand new location was higher located for extra environment friendly administration apart from being much less susceptible than Delhi to northern invasion.

Now NCR ought to observe Tughlaq’s instance and switch the Capital, because the centre of govt, to a different website as a serious step to cut back air pollution.

The huge equipment of governance, with its workplaces, residences, and fleets of autos provides considerably to congestion and air pollution by means of the consumption of utilities and fossil gasoline.

Short-term measures corresponding to staggering govt working hours or resorting to WFH gained’t do the trick. Get govt out of town in toto.

Shifting the seat of governance to a distant space wouldn’t solely support in decongesting and depolluting NCR however would additionally carry improvement to a hitherto uncared for backwater.

Thanks to the rising use of e-governance at varied ranges, administrative work wouldn’t be hampered by geographic location.

The vacated governmental property would make Delhi’s actual property, each workplace area and residential, extra reasonably priced as town bought the sarkar out of its hair. And because it bought govt out of its air, NCR may actually breathe simpler. A really Capital thought.

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