Suggestions for better Metro Plan for Visakhapatnam.

I visited New York City first time in 1999, it was an amazing experience, I wondered how it is possible to build such a city. Later on I watched PBS Documentary on TV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUmI6mUzSH8) and came to know about the American Builder Robert Moses, the Architect of New York City. He is the greatest creator and builder of Public Works. He earned billions of dollars for the city, He wasn’t interested in personal wealth, only interested in the public benefit. I got inspired by him, from that day onwards I was looking for the opportunity to do the same.

Recently AP State government planned to build Visakhapatnam Metro project, I am so disappointed that the proposed plan is useless and waste of money and it won’t yield any benefit to the people or to the government.


DMRC proposed 3 Metro corridors, its total length is 34 KM.

Corridor1: from Madhurawada to NAD Junction along NH5.

Corridor2: Thatichetlapalem to Old post office via railwany new colony, railway station, alliupuram, Ambedkar Statue, Jagadamba Junction, Purna market and Reading Room.

Corridor3: Gurudwara NH5 Junction to Park hotel via Seethampeta, RTC Complex, Siripuram and AU out gate.

I was born in King George Hospital (KGH) Visakhapatnam, I know the traffic patterns of this city very well. I want to share one of my plans for better Visakha, it’s going to help the public and government, I would love to help much more. The main city of Visakhapatnam is surrounded by hills and sea, didn’t have enough space to grow. Gajuwaka developed in much faster way and it is completely in disconnect with main city. Steel Plant, NTPC, Pharma City and Gangavarm Port stretched the Gajuwaka further south. Arilova and Madhurawada’s growth expanded Visakhapatnam towards North East. And also it stretched from Gopalpatnam to Pendurthi toward North West.

Most of the commuters from Madurawada, Arilova and MVP Colony travel towards Old post office, RTC Complex and Railway Station, remaining go to Gujuwaka and further, they don’t end their journey at NAD Junction. Half of the commuters from Pendurthi, Vepagunta and Gopalapatnam travel to RTC complex, Railway Station and Jagadamba Junction, remaining travel towards Gajuwaka and beyond. Pilgrims from Railway station, RTC Complex and Gajuwaka travel to Simhachalam. Another busier route is from Railway station to Scindia Junction and from Scindia to Gajuwaka because of Naval Dockyard, Hindustan Shipyard and HPCL.

I recently visited New Delhi 3 times to attend AP State Bifurcation cases in Supreme Court of India, I used the metro all the time, it is convenient but I observed buses also running in parallel to metro trains. It means we are sharing the commuters between buses and metro trains, this doesn’t help the environment much. When we observe overseas buses they carry the commuters from the remote places to metro train stations. It forces people to use metro trains. And it reduces the traffic and helps the environment. After considering all the above reasons I would like to suggest the following plans for better and grater Visakha.

Plan A


Total length of 2 Metro corridors is around 52 KM.

Corridor1 (30KM) Madhurawada to Kurmanna Palem (Vizag Steel Plant plaza road) via Arilova, Kailashigiri, Maddilapalem, Rama takies, RTC Complex, Jagadamba Junction, Purna market, Reading Room, Old Post office, Dolphin Hill, Scindia junction, Malkapuram and Chaitanya Nagar (Gajuwaka).

Corridor2 (22KM) Pendurthi to Vuda Beach via Vepagunta, Gopalapatnam, Tatichetlapalem, Akkayapalem, Gurudwara, Maddilapalem, Through AU North Campus and Chinna waltair.

With this proposal we can reduce 70% of the City buses. The high rise metro track over the channel above 100 meters connecting old post office station and Dolphin Hill will attract the Tourists. We can develop the Dolphin hill similar to Kailashgiri and promote Light house,weather station, Durga temple and beach. Through Corridor1 visitors can travel between Kailashgiri and Dolphin Hill. We can promote the Religious tolerance as a symbolic junction of Church on Ross hill, Masjid on one hill and Hindu Venkateswara temple on the other hill.

Plan B

Visakhapatnam Railway station is blocking most of the prime area in the center of the city. Anakapalli – Visakha and Viskha – Pendurthi railway line forms Y junction all the trains coming from Anakapalli and Pendurthi passing through a clogged passage and causing around extra 20 KM travel and wasting more than one hour of time of each passenger. We can streamline this by shifting Visakha Railway station and building it between Kakaninagar and Gopalapatnam Rural station. This will bring Visakhapatnam Railway station and Airports across the road. Indian Railways can gain by selling the prime area of existing railway station lands and can move them away from the city.

Total length of 4 Metro corridors is around 70-75 KM


Corridor1 BLUE Line (30KM) Madhurawada to Kurmanna Palem (Vizag Steel Plant plaza road) via Arilova, Kailashgiri, Maddilapalem, Rama talkies, RTC Complex, Jagadamba Junction, Purna market, Reading Room, Old Post office, Dolphin Hill, Scindia junction, Malkapuram, Chaitanya Nagar (Gajuwaka)

Corridor2 GREEN Line (20KM) Pendurthi to Peda Gantyada via Vepagunta, Gopalapatnam, Airport, New Railway Station, AkkireddyPalem, Jyothinagar, New Gajuwaka and Nehrunagar.

Corridor3 RED Line (12KM) New Railway Station to Vuda Beach via Airport, NAD, Marripalem, kancharapalem, Tatichetlapalem, Akkayapalem, Lalithanagar, Maddilapalem, Through AU North Campus and Chinna waltair.

Corridor4 YELLOW Line (8KM) New Railway Station to Simhachalam via Airport, Gopalapatnam, and Prahaladapuram.

With this Plan B we can reduce 85% of the City buses and it will give a new dimension to Visakhapatnam development, it will expand in West and North West directions.

Thanking You
Vishnu Alluri

We need a Citizen’s Security System.

Yesterday’s terror threat reminded me the article I wrote “Citizen Security System” on 6th Dec 2008 after 26/11 Mumbai attacks. I would like to share it as follows…

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We all are bleeding from our hearts and deeply wounded, we don’t have words, what we have is only the anger to show.

Pakistani Politicians and Army survival depends on anti-Indian sentiment and by propagating it. No one has any doubt to say Pakistan is a terrorist country. In recent time’s pak politician’s talks about war on terror at front, in the back they are encouraging and sponsoring terror. There is no radical Islam before 1980’s it has been created by Pakistanis with American funds, in order to gather men to fight against soviets in Afghanistan. Pakistan diverted most of these funds to fight against India in the name of Kashmir issue, not for the Kashmiri’s. After Soviets withdrawal all jihads don’t have a target to hate. Pakistani terrorists turned against India and others are against western countries especially US and UK in the name of Palestine and rest are wanted to create bigger Islamic state. First two kinds can be eliminated but not the third kind, the world has to face it forever.

It look like Pakistani President Mr. Zardari knows about this attack, they want war with India to divert US from its war on terror. His recent statement that “Pakistan won’t detonate nuclear weapon first on India” this comment came with surprise and without any context. He is hinting the India that it can fire few missiles after 26/11 attack.

With booming economy we are moving towards capitalism, in the process we are moving towards US and west, for terrorist’s its not easy to strike western countries at their will, but India is a soft target because of its corruption, leader’s inability and overcrowded population. For these reasons we will take major impact in the coming future.

With 9/11 attacks and because of some Bollywood movies it became as a fascination to become as terrorist in India. It is nothing but Sinicism and psychopath mentality. All the communal riots are politically motivated or definitely some anti-social elements are behind for their own benefit so far our politicians failed us to capture and punish the perpetrators and to prevent these events, Terrorists are using these incidents as their propaganda weapons.

Most of our Politicians are selfish and worthless they don’t do anything and they can’t do anything. Corruption is at unacceptable level, it became as integral part of our government and society. Anyone can buy birth certificates, ration cards, driving licenses and so on, and can start contesting in our ballets. In reality we can’t prevent attacks but the damage can be minimized.

We have right to express our anger and concerns. We never did it before when our democracy is on stake or over unemployment or skyrocketing prices. It’s welcoming and most desirable change that India needed. We must express our concerns publicly; the sad thing is that some are posting their comments over the web with duplicate names. Please do with your real names, don’t be afraid its freedom of speech, it’s our fundamental right.

We are watching some action only because elections are around the corner; it’s nothing, there are lot of more things has to be done. We must come out and demand what we want. We must start electing our leaders based on the merits not on the basis of his/her political party or cast or religion.

We badly need a Citizen’s Security System to protect our citizens from terrorist attacks and communal riots. This CSS will respond on their won without any chain of commands or without any interference from center or state govt. officials or politicians. Any police station can call directly for help or CSS field officers can call them.

CSS should have 5 Terror Response Zones (East, West, North, South and Central). Each zone consisting of 5,000 army soldiers and 5,000 army commandos trained for antiterrorism, guerilla, and urban, rural, biological and nuclear warfare and with 4 airplanes and 10 helicopters.

• In a zone there should be a First Response Team with 500 members, they should work in 4 shifts, with 100 members per shift, they should be ready for deployment within 5 to 10 minutes, and one plane should be ready to take off at any moment with full of armor and ammunition.
• After FRT’s departure the first Reinforcement Team (with 250 commandos) should be get ready for air lifting in 30 minutes and 2nd Reinforcement should be get ready for air lifting in an hour if necessary.
• Each operation should have a one command center in its zonal office it should work 24/7, each zone could be able to take up to 50 operations at the same time.
• Each commando should have complete protection (ready for Bio and Nuclear attacks) suites with latest weapons and night vision capability and should carry a web camera (can be recorded at zonal office with voice over secure connection) and communication systems. All operations should be conducted from their zonal command center. Commandos should be air dropped in a safe and close to hot spot.
• Each zone should have several field officers deployed all over the places; they should acquire the complete knowledge of the area, streets and places. In the event of attack or riots these field officers can call the zonal offices for help. These are responsible for looking out safe places for commando’s air drop locations and should guide them to the hot spot.
• In the event of attack TRZ’s should scan all the incoming and outgoing communications from land and mobile phones, faxes and computers.
• Zonal office location must be setup in a way that flight journey should take below 30 minutes to reach any extreme end. Each zone should establish a regional office in every metro city and sensitive places with 60 commandos they will also work in 4 shifts. Each RO get one helicopter, it should be able to carry 15 commandos and ammunition and should be used to chase the suspects and for Arial coverage.
• TRZ’s should inform the TV stations, Press, Air ports, Railway stations, Bus stations, sport complexes, movie theaters and public places automatically within 10 minutes of the incident.
• When an attack starts, 144 Section should be in effect around 1km radius. Local police should block the incoming traffic and evacuate the roads and guard the hospitals and help the victims to carry into hospitals. Announcing the warning and suggestions over the loud speakers.
• TV stations must announce the affected areas, helpline phone numbers and suggestions like stay in the home and don’t come on to the roads and so on.
• When attack took place air ports, railway and bus stations of the city must start recording its entry and exit points. They should be on high alert. Incoming trains and buses must be stopped at previous scheduled stop. Outgoing trains and buses must leave at scheduled time and must be stopped until thorough inspection in their next stations at least 50 or 100km away from the hot spot.
• Electricity should be shut off; cell phones should be blocked with jammers after 30 minutes of attack and must be restored as soon as the commandos operation is over or if it is secure to do so.
• Zonal offices will provide a 30 minute delayed live feed and information to press and TV reporters, without compromising the public safety and without affecting the ongoing investigation.
• After a month all recorded information without any sensor must be produced to loksatta kind of organizations, any wrong doing by the CSS must be prosecuted.
• Commando’s age must be in between 20 to 30 years, they must be transferred back to the army after 5 years of service in CSS and the vacancies must be filled with new members.
• Investigation Teams should reach the hot spot as soon as the operation ends.
• Commandos must sanitize the hot spot and thoroughly investigate for the clues, all the evidences must be handed over to the CSS headquarters and the hot spot must be handed over to the local police. Until then either politicians or officials are not allowed to visit the hot spot.
• CSS Headquarters should keep in touch with intelligent agencies; state and central government’s and exchange the information with them. Coordinate and govern the TRZ’s.

Vande mataram

Thanking You
Vishnu Alluri

How to solve interstate water disputes and purify our rivers including Ganga?‏

Erratic rainfall and a growing population have raised the demand for water and it sparking interstate spats. The tribunals are failing to solve water sharing disputes between the states and the cases are stagnating at the Supreme Court of India. Because of political parties vote bank politics they are using it as a weapon, it will flare up the enmity between peoples of different states, and ultimately it will threaten the integrity of India. Some state governments are building the Dam’s without permission’s which is leading to lawlessness in the country. By year 2030 the demand of water supply is going to be doubled, so it is the right time to act.

Central govt. should create a River Authority of India (RAI) and nationalize all the rivers, lakes and dams in India, should make all the state Chief ministers as board members and Prime Minister as Managing Director , they will have voting rights based on the weighted average of their responding state population and they amount of water flows through that state. The current tribunals are allocating the water based on past availability. RAI should allocate water on monthly basis based on the availability of the water for that month. States which are drawing the water from Dam, should pay their share for maintenance costs for Dams. We need to interlink the rivers for better utilization of water. We should add one more Fundamental Right to our constitution to get 10 liters of treated water per day for drinking and cooking, and government will be responsible to supply.

Guideline’s to formulate and allocate water for each state.

1. First it should allocate 200 Liters per person for basic daily consumption.
2. It should allocate water for Hydro Power stations to run 24 hours.
3. It should allocate water for Irrigation systems, first preference should be given to naturally flowing system then for lift irrigation systems one crop per year.
4. It should allocate water to Industries.
5. Excess water should be allocated for Irrigation systems, first preference should be given to naturally flowing system then for lift irrigation systems for second crop in that year.
6. For Drinking water and Hydro Power stations allocations should be based on top – down approach.
7. Irrigation and Industrial allocations should be based on down – top approach.

Currently 80% of the City’s untreated sewage is flowing into the rivers, lakes and ponds, as a result Nitrate levels are too high in ground water all around the India, not only this untreated industrial waste is flowing through the rivers and polluting all the water resources, it is creating the hazardous conditions to public health . As per Article 47 of Indian Constitution the duty of the State is to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living and to improve public health, So far our rulers failed to improve or to protect the public health. Most urgently needed action is to clean all the Rivers. Our newly elected Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi took the first step to clean our Ganga River, I would like to contribute myself to this project and suggest the following new innovative processes to clean up our precious rivers round the clock.

Process 1: Construct 3 pipe lines on both sides along the rivers banks. One pipe for Drinking water, one pipe for Sewage water and one pipe for Industrial Liquid Waste. It will help us to block the sewage water and industrial liquid waste flowing into the rivers. RAI will be responsible to lay down these lines and establish Treatment Centers for every 100KM to treat sewage and industrial liquid waste and drinking water treatment. State governments will be responsible to facilitate and mandate the industries, cities and villages to connect the sewage and industrial waste to the main pipe (RAI laid) lines.

Process 2: Construct River Float Collector (RFC) at every 100 KM. It will collect all the floating objects like plastic bottles, covers, trees and dead bodies.

Process 3: Construct River Silt Collector (RSC) at possible locations and before dam reservoirs to clean up the silt (Sedimentation) round the clock from reverbed (underwater).

 

Take the preventive measures to reduce the sedimentation, such as planting trees and draft walls to stop the land sliding. And also use conventional dredgers in Dam reservoirs to remove sedimentation. Re-excavate the rivers to deepening and to remove the sedimentation and to strengthen the river banks.

This project needs lots of money and long term commitment. It is most desired and essential project to meet our future water supply demand. Supreme Court of India is keeping lots of pressure on government of India to clean Ganga river, but what about other rivers? Government of India told that it will take 18 years just to clean Ganga River, when it is going to start and finish the cleaning remaining rivers? Let’s step up and speak up for cleaning of all the rivers.

Vande mataram.

Thanking You
Vishnu Alluri