New Delhi: Signboards play a crucial role in civic navigation, providing clear and essential information to guide people through public spaces and roadways. Whether they display street names, traffic rules, directions, or important notices, signboards are designed to enhance safety and convenience for drivers, pedestrians, and commuters alike.
Their consistent use of symbols, colours, and text makes them easy to understand and follow, helping people navigate unfamiliar areas and adhere to local regulations. By offering helpful instructions and warnings, signboards contribute to the smooth functioning of everyday life in cities and towns, promoting organized and efficient movement.
Poster over signboard sparks debate
A photo of a poster stuck on a flyover signboard in Delhi has been circulating online, sparking a debate about civic sense in India. Many people have shared similar experiences of posters being pasted on signboards and important public information being defaced by wall paintings. Others pointed out that a large portion of the population in India seems to exhibit a complete lack of civic responsibility.
How fu*k*ng dumb do you gotta be to do this
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The poster, which a Reddit user stated is affixed to a flyover signboard in Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh, invites the public to join the Ramleela and Dussehra festivities organized by a local committee in Pitampura. It also features images of the event organizers, one of whom is a doctor. The poster highlights the various services offered by this doctor, including physiotherapy, chiropractic care, cupping therapy, and dry needling.
Social media reacts
Several social media users have reacted to the video. “We have zero civic sense, this is one of the example. Using roads to organize jagrans, loud music and occupying the road during marriage procession, various encroachments, spitting on roads. The list can be long,” one user commented.
“After seeing this picture, it reminds me of a famous dialogue from the movie Raanjhanaa: “Koi kitna gawar kaise ho sakta hai”,” another user commented.
