It has been happening almost on a daily basis. The only difference is the media coverage that either leads to one line obituary or at times a 24 hrs coverage of one particular child falling in the deep dug hole with full masala of channel crews lined up, reporters making a bee-line for the minister or CM…. Every hour “Breaking News” highlighting the vociferous attacks on the negligence of the administration, bit by bit panning of cameras on the inconsolable family members, interviewing the relatives and finally treating the incident – another story that made a common man do a momentary shocking up.
On March 02, 2010, a 12 year old boy drowned in a pit in South Delhi because the civic agencies forgot to fill up the ditch they dug. The tragedy remains as it ever was. One after the other incidents have failed to wake up the agencies from their slumber. Unprofessional working ethics, corruption, unwillingness, not fixing the responsibility factor, etc. have lead and would continue to lead many more lives into the death traps which could have been saved otherwise.
Except for running under the shelter of various excuses, things have not changed. The 10 – 30% commission of the Councillors, MLAs, Jr. Engineer, Asst. Engineer and the sharing off the cut by the contractors to people who matter have undoubtedly thrown to winds any safety guards that otherwise form the basis of such vulnerable projects.
The sleeping judiciary, lethargic investigations have added to the near collapse of the justice delivery system. The almost on-existent use of “Law of Torts” and lack of accountability have literally frozen the corrective measures and unluckily we would keep seeing the media howling after every fall and administration declined to better its score………
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