Virtue punishes those who fail in honesty

Virtue punishes those who fail in honesty

If I say who is responsible for the floods during the rainy season, I will say that the relevant administrations are responsible. Villages were rarely flooded until recently. The villages had their own structure.

The puddles and ponds will be overflowing before the floods in the villages. Those in the village know how much the water level rises when the ponds and pools fill up. They have pre-stories about it and news about past events. They know what would happen if all the ponds and pools were completely filled. Then they have a clear decision on which part of the village to go to.

Towns were almost identical structure as villages in olden days. But it was the towns that were the first to suffer and degrade. You can’t build in the cities as you would build a house freely in the villages. Permission to build a house must be obtained from various urban management bodies. You also need permission to build each of the semi urban areas also. Urban building systems do not allow unauthorized construction.

How can floods come when nothing can be built in urban areas without proper permission? Therefore, the moral responsibility for this lies with the respective administrative bodies. Those organizations must also accept that the flood is coming only with proper permits. There is a need for administrative procedures to regulate all of this.

Villages are also experiencing recent urban degradation. Every pond is disappearing. The wells are being converted into landfills. Rivers are being transformed into sewers. Outlying lands are being subjected to occupation. Roads are getting too steep. The drains are on the verge of death.

We must always remember the saying that journeys are easier if the obstacles in the way are removed. If there are paths for water to flow, the water will not stagnate. Management systems are in some way contributing to the blockage of water-forming avenues. Corruption and bribery of the management system threatens to flood us during the rainy season. It is also the canon that virtue punishes those who err on the side of honesty. Canons should not be violated as they cannot be changed.

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