Re: [AI] A Colleague's wife falls into a pit!As far as cows in bangalore, They are forced on to the roads as their grazing/rests areas are acquired for construction, where else the sacred cows go? if anyone is thinking of getting rid of cows by any means, think of milk and skyrocketting prices. P. Subramani ----- Original Message ----- From: Mujtaba Merchant To: advoc...@eyeway.org ; Access India Cc: geo...@eyeway.org Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [AI] A Colleague's wife falls into a pit!
Hello George and the list members, This is a very serious issue in our country. There are no standards, quality and safety measures maintained or enforced when planning a town, city or for that matter anything to do with infrastructure. I lost a very dear friend on this account. He was riding a bike late in the night at permisible speed, when right before me he fell down and met his death. What happened? The city civic authorities had dug up the road for some maintainance work and to caution all the road users they just stuck a plant stem with a red flag which could have been easily missed by anyone. Not to say, the road was not lit well too! This matter was addressed to the authorities but they turned us down by giving us excuses like we were overspeeding or drunk... The matter then was closely monitered after we got the postmoterm report which did not indicate any alcohol in the blood report. The family of the deceased was compensated fairly, but the question is what good is that money when compared to the grief of the family losing their child due to the negligance of the city authorities? Another aspect which was discussed in the mail by Mr. George Abraham in his mail to the Access India mailing list is the growing menace of stray animals in urban areas. Although he has bought the monkeys and dogs into the picture we at Bangalore have cows patrol the streets too. We have a nickname for those cows aptly as live speedbreakers. There is still a huge debate raging amongst the citizens of Bangalore and between the animal lovers and the others who feel that stray dogs are a menace to the city. I understand that we as humans have invaded many animals habitat, but come on there has to be some kind of control by the authorities when it comes to the safety of it's citizens. Added to the number of hazzards for any citizen regardless of being sighted or not, the roads, so called footpaths, walkways and traffic control systems are all a pmake shift arrangement to meet injury or death! Please dont get me started on how construction takes place in our country. Simply, too shabby of a job not only to the ones involved in carrying out the construction but for others as well. The safety of the construction workers is totally comprimised when it comes to cost. The chaps are not even insured, in case of any accident on the site the contractor with the help of other workers will shift the injured to a government hospital and the rest is Raam Jaanay story. I am not that educated on the labour laws of the country so please forgive my negligence on expressing or commenting wrongly on the subject. I think I have ranted enough about this subject for now. Sorry to hear about the colleagues wife who met with the injury from falling into a pitt, may her injuries heal fast. George, please let me know if you require me to address anymore concerns on this regard. Good day to you all. Mujtaba Merchant Bangalore, India Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
