Accidents

Holistic
Solutions

Dr.
Shriniwas
Kashalikar
 Accidents and many other
related and consequent
problems; are created by policies
made and implemented by
unevolved individuals; present in
positions of policy and decision
making. They have voracious and
insatiable appetite for
unquestionable power of every
sort even if it is at the cost of
billions of people. Strangely, the
billions of sufferers; help in
boosting and promoting these
policies and their
implementation, which is
disastrous to the society. This is
because of the popularity of
backward and blunderous
concept and model of
“progress”!

These people in the positions of

policy making and decision
 making by virtue of their petty
perspective, petty thinking, petty
feelings and petty instincts
create policies of petty profits of
few and suffering of billions.

One of such many policies; is that

of excessive production and
marketing of cars and two
wheelers (for the affluent few) in
preference to buses, trams,
trains and other modes of public
transport, which are urgently
required for billions; who suffer
in every possible way due to
inadequate public transport
facilities.

The brief explanation of how this

single policy can increase not
only accidents but cause many
related and consequent
problems; is as follows.
 1. Excessive increase in number
of vehicles on roads leads to
congestion and tremendous and
unnecessary load on traffic police

2. Commensurate increase in fuel

consumption causing chemical
pollution and also in import
expenses; leading to increase of
fuel prices and subsequent
increase in the food prices and
unbearable load on the farmers
living in villages, where
electricity is barely available for
few hours. Thus the farmer
community which is the heart of
society becomes sick and
moribund! This is alarms real
danger!

3. Wear and tear of roads

increases. Consequently there is
 increase in accidents due bad
condition of roads as well as
increase in the maintenance
expenses and disturbance and
delay to smooth traffic

4. Excessive increase in noise

pollution results due to; blowing
of horns; which is especially
troublesome; to hospitals,
schools, and other places; where
silence is essential.

5. Traffic jams adding to further

increase in fuel consumption and
wastage of time, disastrously
affecting the performance and/or
productivity of the people of
different occupations.

6. Increase in the number of

vehicular accidents is largely
contributed by simply the huge
 and increasing number of
vehicles on road apart from other
factors

7. Increase in vehicular exhaust

causing global warming

8. Excess of load on local trains

and other means of public
transport [where ever available]
and consequent accidents,
quarrels and mishaps

9. Overall increase in tardiness in

the traffic and increase in
anxiety and tension, further
increasing the quarrels, traffic
crimes the number and severity
of accidents and difficulty in
providing medical aid (and
disaster management) due to
difficulty in movement of
ambulances and fire fighters.
 10. The eco-friendly bicycles
production and sale suffers due
to “imposing and threatening”
presence of cars, motorcycles,
rickshaws, scooters etc.

11. Excessive production of

vehicles; is associated with;
unproductive and wasteful work;
such as insurance, registration
and traffic policing!

12. Increase (due to difficulty in

enforcing law and order) riots,
thefts etc due to slowing of
police movement

13. Excessive production of un-

degradable solid waste.

14. The need and construction of

excessively wide and cement or
 asphalt roads at the cost of
irreplaceable trees (extremely
important for avoiding global
warming, pollution, rain and
organic manure) and open earth
surface (extremely important and
vital for absorbing and holding
rain water) and unnecessary
disruption of the natural habitat
of the animals.

Thus, one wrong policy and its

implementation can disastrously
affect several aspects of health
and happiness of the society.

One immediate holistic solution

is:

Improvement of public transport

system by improving; the
production of buses (quantitative
and qualitative), bus
maintenance, bus frequency, bus
service and so on! More holistic
solutions can be worked out by
the experts, but holistic
perspective and its public
support; emerge and grow
strong; through the universal
practice of NAMASMARAN!