Deaths

Relatives of a stampede hunting at New Delhi railway station mourned his death. , Photo Credit: PTI

TeaThe incidents of Wo Stamped recently put the headlines at the top. In New Delhi, twenty train passengers were killed while trying to board a crowded train, a tragedy that came soon after the stampede at Maha Kumbh in Shirdharaj. This happened even when we could overcome the terrible images of death, mourning, running ambulances and children in the series of Stamped in the last one year – in Hathras, where 121 people were killed in the work of a preacher in Hyderabad during the screening of a blockbuster film, and in the Tirupati temple. We cause pain on the death of innocent citizens in the cluster. Unlike the collective mortality in other conflicting countries due to bombing, gunfights and terrorist attacks, wholesale deaths in India are due to stamps.

India is crowded with a growing population of 1.4 billion. Wherever we go, we only see people in this country. Crowds gather in temples, festivals, fun shows, big film releases, star performance and sports programs. When the situation is suffering from nervousness and uncontrolled, the crowd becomes a crazy crowd, which fully says in its apathy for a fellow man. Most of the people killed in Stamped are poor and Dalit. In a busy six-day task program, who has infiltrated the lives of all people, seems to be the only outlet for people to visit a temple on an auspicious day or to see a family moment to see a show or see a show. On such occasions, only a spark is required to start a stampede.

If the number of people participating in the event is uncontrolled, or the mob management gets out of hand, or the facilities for shelter, food and water are inadequate, everyone in the crowd suddenly becomes fearless. Two years ago, a suspension bridge across the Morbi River gave up the death of 141 people. Sadly, most of them were poor people who gathered to enjoy the evening. He spent ₹ 17 each as an entry ticket to have some fun on the bridge. He did not realize that money was the price of his precious life.

Many crowded places in our country do not have silly security measures, protocols, guides, periodic checks, security officers, mob manager, planner, checklist, monitor or other basic requirements that are ideal in developed nations to avoid such stamping. When the death of many people hits us, we are in despair and anger and feel dissatisfied with the way human life is lost. But all this pain soon ends and we will be engrossed in our problems or take some other tragedy centers. We do not feel that the moment we are born in our country, our life is hanging from a thin thread, which is ever ready to snap. The rich are better than the poor. But no one is safe.

People are upset when they read about death unexpectedly. But I am looking at innocent victims every day who have lost their lives due to lack of security measures in our country. A 70 -year -old elderly man trampled a stray bull on the roadside during his daily morning walk; A 25 -year -old father lost control of his bike and a stray dog ​​died when he escaped; A construction worker without a security harness fell from the second floor of a building and injured his brain; A two -year -old bike sitting on the front on the petrol tank was thrown; An 18 -year -old boy broke his legs when a corporation removed the swing in the park; A 35 -year -old mother fell into a manhole; The list is long and disturbing. Can anyone be held accountable for these deaths and injuries in our country? No, but they are not rare incidents; Day and day outside, and every minute, such accidents are happening, in one or the other part of the country.

It is obvious that the government of any country has a huge role in preventing these accidents. We cannot be unaware of this basic fact. But perhaps the government and policy makers have major problems to solve, and the security of the citizen in public places has never been the priority of the state. So, it becomes a privilege of individual citizens to take care of himself and his family. Mainly we should know that many of our tasks – driving, participate in mass tasks and walking on the streets – needs to be checked for potential disasters. We all do dangerous items regularly because everyone in our country does this.

We do not know that life can be threatened by standing under scorching sun during mid-day to see aircraft or a crowded meeting. We do not know that motorbikes going at a speed of 0 to 150 kmph in five seconds are completely insecure on our pit riding, crowded roads. We do not know that if there is no place to breathe in the jam-pack train station or temple festival, it is a possible death network. People travel on the footboard without a quota of fear or insecurity because everyone does it. We cannot always blame the government for not making a preventive protocol for this problem. It is our responsibility to protect ourselves and our children from these unfortunate events. We cannot expect deep excavations on all pits, manhole, and roads, which can be filled and barricaded all the time. We should be careful about this to our family and friends and be vigilant while walking and driving on the streets. As long as the government takes the safety of the common man as one of its major agenda in the public arena, we should try to understand the importance of safety, spread information and protect ourselves from such disasters.

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