Welcome to the Indian New Year.
A common Indian man to enjoy the benefits which these modern times offer would turn to an artisan, who in turn would turn to other artisans, thus making up a team of experts and onsite workers. Collectively, they would all come up with complex but engineered schemes to construct the essential important infrastructure.
With plenty happening around, these two big mishaps in the last fortnight would get into news headlines. In one – the most important local travel system in the commercial capital of the country was disheveled for a few days (I am not counting one or two dead, and some ten injured, since it is a low figure in the context), and in the second – the fire in the depot of an Indian Oil and Gas giant accumulated losses of about 500 Crore Indian Rupees (100 Million USD) and some ten odd got so much burnt that they died.
The sensible artisans related would complain of lack of money, corrupt system, uncooperative peer agencies, lethargic workmen, but will pin hopes into the basics of ‘inspection and maintenance regime’ and make up some resolutions to follow it. So, life would go on.
And, what about already known bad-track record of the above both – making up an average score of ten killed every day?
In other words, unless this problem of slow unseen deaths is not solved, and no matter however hard one tries by learning from these big time accidents, the resulting dead will still be a concerning figure.
Thus, dedication to an ‘inspection and maintenance regime’ is a must. There is no other way out. Explain to me, how can any country really develop if it doesn’t want to put some extra efforts into the safety of its people and its site workers? (Note, it is different to humanity.)
Hmmph! some artisan’s job!
p.s. Also, I am not yet aware of local travel website for Mumbai, and IOC website draws a blank on these incidents.
With plenty happening around, these two big mishaps in the last fortnight would get into news headlines. In one – the most important local travel system in the commercial capital of the country was disheveled for a few days (I am not counting one or two dead, and some ten injured, since it is a low figure in the context), and in the second – the fire in the depot of an Indian Oil and Gas giant accumulated losses of about 500 Crore Indian Rupees (100 Million USD) and some ten odd got so much burnt that they died.
The sensible artisans related would complain of lack of money, corrupt system, uncooperative peer agencies, lethargic workmen, but will pin hopes into the basics of ‘inspection and maintenance regime’ and make up some resolutions to follow it. So, life would go on.
And, what about already known bad-track record of the above both – making up an average score of ten killed every day?
In other words, unless this problem of slow unseen deaths is not solved, and no matter however hard one tries by learning from these big time accidents, the resulting dead will still be a concerning figure.
Thus, dedication to an ‘inspection and maintenance regime’ is a must. There is no other way out. Explain to me, how can any country really develop if it doesn’t want to put some extra efforts into the safety of its people and its site workers? (Note, it is different to humanity.)
Hmmph! some artisan’s job!
p.s. Also, I am not yet aware of local travel website for Mumbai, and IOC website draws a blank on these incidents.
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