Wednesday, March 24, 2010

"We will remain student till end"

The outcome of the most devastating fire tragedy of Kolkata at Stephen's Court at Park Street is that the Mayor of Kolkata Corporation and the Fire-Brigade Minister both are still at learning stage.
The Mayor says that taking lesson from this incident, it has been decided to form a committee to vigil the multi-storied buildings and monitor whether any illegal construction is there, and at the same time whether any fire-fighting system has been installed etc. etc...... Another committee means again an arrangement to send the matter to cold storage. Our experience regarding committee is just like this. Most of the committees never complete their job. If any committee complete their report and submit it to the Government, or any other civic body, the higher authority mostly reject the report, because, if they somehow agree with the report, it will prove the inefficiency and other lacunae of that body.
The Fire-Brigade Minister was much more interested and showed unnatural efficiency to lodge FIR against CAB and KKR management in connection with construction of temporary gallery, as it gave him easy visual media mileage, that to take any step against illegally constructed high rises, or building or slum area where huge quantity of highly inflammable articles stored illegally. He says that he has learned a lesson from this fire.
This is true that there is no end of learning. And so those two important Office-bearer probably followed the directive of the King of Hirok "attempt to learn is nothing but wastage of time." The Park Street incident again showed that the Office-bearers of Govt. of West Bengal, Kolkata Police, Kolkata Corporation and other related civic bodies are basically very bad student and at the same time back-bencher too. At the time of learning, they pass their time in leisure and when such devastating accident occurs, they chew the fag end of the pencil and finally fail. We, the Kolkatans, should sing that song "How many people have to face their death, before you learn your lessons?!"

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