Disaster management – shameful disaster?
Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.Recently TIOL wrote strongly about the woeful inadequacies in our Disaster Management Systems. A disaster can strike at any moment, we really have no control over it, but should we not be equipped to deal with the situation after the tragedy?
An under-construction fly over in Hyderabad collapsed yesterday, because of a heavy rain which shook the foundation. Thank God, it happened before the faulty fly-over was commissioned!
This happened in the most congested traffic area of Hyderabad and the administration simply did not know what to do. The NIMS hospital is hardly a furlong away and three hours after the accident, only one victim landed up in the Super Speciality hospital and he came on his own – in an auto rickshaw!
A Member of the National Disaster Management Authority reached the spot within half an hour and directed the police to arrange for a mike. Nothing happened for an hour and he left the disaster to mange itself!