Gaurav Mittal on Political Geographies and the Urban Transportation Crisis
Ideas of India
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The Transport in the Arathon Has Been Operating in a State of Exception
The transport in the arathon has been operating in a state of exception, says dirgis. The exception is being created by the sovereigns who are low and high ranking bureaucrats. And these sovereigns take the decisions which actually impact the operation of transport. So you have the situation where there is sort of, you kno, very bad regulation, which is not thought out well. Plus you have weak state capacity, so you know, they are not going to actually enforce that regulation. Whatever is the limited state capacity looks the other way and profits from the problem.
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