ARE WE MURDERERS?
ARE WE MURDERERS?
If I happened to ask you this question, Most of you would give me a look of utmost surprise. But if you are wondering as to why this question is relevant, then there is something more serious about this question.
With my daily cup of tea, I read the morning newspaper and it is quite possible that you would have also read about the 17 year old girl who died because of the wall collapse during the incessant rain in Bangalore, 2 days ago. But little do we all know that we are all connected to her death.
The so called magic boxes which the State govt frantically built for saving its face for the airport road is riddled with huge flaws .And the veterinary college’s wall(which fell) near the Magic box also compounds the problem of water logging during rains. And this wall that collapsed on the girl was hardly built just 6 months ago by some wealthy contractor, I suppose. With all the newly built structures. How could the wall collapse is the question? The answer lies in the apathy which we citizens have in taking these things casually.
First of all when the wall collapsed and when the rescue team was on the way to help the girl. There was a traffic jam on the palace road because of a so called politician’s son’s marriage happening in the palace ground. Well, marriages are held every day but the government’s apathy in managing the traffic system and infrastructure is years behind the actual demand. The rescue team got stuck and thus the life of the girl also got stuck in between the wall that was built by an incompetent contractor who had the audacity to build it without a proper foundation.
Is it corruption, is it carelessness, or is it the freedom to roam scot free in India after a crime, OR is it the inability to raise our voice? Whatever be the case, we have unnecessarily lost a life because of our own doing. The Government never built the separate airport road that could have had free flow traffic from the city to the airport. The so called Maharaja of the redundant Palace ground never had the courtesy to give a little bit of his land to accommodate the expansion of the Bellary road (because of which this part is always jammed). Our Bangalore doesn’t even have one air ambulance team to save lives, but can frequently accommodate VIP Helipads wherever needed. And we citizens know all this but crime is not a crime for we don’t care as we feel that we are still safe somehow in this maze of corruption, inefficiency and unaccountability of our machinery.
I appeal to all the citizens that the perpetrators of this crime must not be allowed to go unaccountable. I still hope that our country is running because we still have the good men who do their duties for the country. I hope that we do not have to still wait for another hundred unnecessary deaths before we realise the gravity of the situation.
InQuilab
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