Democracy: Voting vs representation

Many sheep are there. Mostly of three-four colours. But the sheep do not know how many they are. they do not even know why they dislike the other coloured sheep. The sheep are surprised ever now and then when they see a jackal in a sheep's skin begging them to choose him as their leader. And sheep are as they are. They wonder what the heck. Ok!,they say, "We will. But don't bother us at all." Nobody knows how many sheep are required to make one jackal their leader. And the sheep are least bothered.

Lets come to the Great Indian Democracy now. The 82 crore electors will have to choose 543 representatives. Lets do maths (use calculator). That is one representative for 1510128.913443831 or 15 lac (1.5 million) persons. Can this come in the definition of representation? Lets assume that the representative wants to truly represent and want to give a minute to each of the person he is representing. That is 15 lac minutes --- 25168.81522406384 hours and assuming 8 hours a day --- 3146 days and assuming 6 day week --- 524 weeks --- about 10 years. This makes it a one way relationship. The representative becomes the leader.

The Great Indian Democracy is always told that it cannot afford more representatives. Lets again turn to maths. Assuming that one MP for 1 lac persons. Lets say that it becomes a paid representation --- like a lawyer you hire. And every month --- regardless of his economic situation --- a person is charged Rs. 5  a month... or Rs. 60 per annum ... or Rs. 300 as a voting fee once. Then it would be Rs. 5 lacs per month to maintain an MP. That seems reasonable.

The bane of the Great Indian Democracy is that it is just an election process without representation. We want more representatives and we can afford them also!

Red lights.

I hate the red light. It makes me see red. What a wasteful invention. Assume that on one side 50 people wait for two minutes. People are waiting on three sides. So, 150 persons are waiting for two minutes. that is 300 man minutes or 5 man hours wasted .... per stop cycle. Lets us say there are 100 light points in the city. that means There are 10 stop cycles in an hour. So every hour the city wastes 5000 man hours. Being assumed only.. lets divide it by 5. That is 1000 man hours wasted on red lights. 

A vehicle goes an average of 40 kms in an hour and the average mileage should be around 8 kms per litre of diesel. So vehicle spends five litres in an hour or five litres in 60 minutes, or 1/6 litres in two minutes. Let us assume that 50 vehicles wait for two minutes before moving at each light point --- that is 50/6 litres at each point or 500/6 litres per hour per light point or 50000/6 litres per hour in the city. Or Rs.25,00,000 per hour or  assuming a ten 15 hours a day....Rs.3,75,00,000 per day.

I know it cannot be this staggering,otherwise we would have build many more fly-overs.Without toll boots also. For the nation would have been richer. hence this calculation is false and highly exaggerated.