Friends, As u know i am working on Hyderabad ORR project as an engineer, i want to share my experience to you which held our heart beats for a while because of media.
last weekend, on friday i.e., 07.05.2010 while i am going to office i and my husband met with an accident with injuries we have taken the first aid and came back to home. had taken rest the whole day taking some antibiotics and pain killers and at night 10:00 PM my husband is watching the world cup cricket match and suddenly while i was changing the channels i am shocked to see scrolling in almost all the news channels like NTV, TV9 etc etc in about 6 channels that the *bridge under constuction collapsed in ORR Project *overpass under construction collpased in ORR Project *pillar under construcion collapsed in ORR Project *pier beam in construction got collapsed in ORR project these are the scrolling and that too it is reported in the stretch where we are working. i called my office manager @ 10:30 night and myself with Team leader, office manager with other engineers visited the site and to our surprise we observed that the scaffolding (the platform used for the workers to walk to reach the pillar top position) was collapsed and the workers (4) who is working at that time were injured and immediately shifted to the hospital by the Contractor rescue team. by 11:00 PM almost we received calls from our project director, Client - Project Director, Municipal Comissioner, Chief secretary and Chief Minister as well. what i really dont understand is 1. The media person who is on job does'nt know what is a part of structure and what is scaffolding? the most worst thing is that he does not want to know what really has happened before reporting for display in tv? ** I dont say that he must be a civil engineer but he should have a basic knowledge on what he is reporting. atleast he can also get details from the contractor superviser but he cannot say what ever he feels by seeing on site. 2. even the management of the media is also not intrested in the saying truth to public. they just want ratings. **few days back i have read the interview of Ramgopal Verma saying about the media (regarding teh state separation) what is the news and how the media is projecting it to public and now after my experience i feel thats right. i hope by now if Journalism is their passion but not business they will realise what they are reporting. with regards, Rochana
