In these flooded times am getting to see a hidden face or rather the balantly shammed mask of our politicians.Switching on the television I watch the timely updates of all those areas which seem to be submerged due to the fury of the belated rains.Along with this there is also an ongoing drama about the Irrigational department blaming the residing political party of not providing adequate funds,the Meteorological department blaming the Irrigational department for not heeding to their warnings and the political party defending themselves saying they are not either responsible for the ignorance of the irrigational officers or for the negligence of the Meteorological department and trying to show themselves in good light by pointing out the efforts made by them.
Am in a dilemma here thinking whether I should appreciate their effort(read their duty) or applaud their preprepared answers to any question one might ask.As the scale of danger keeps rising the military forces are seen in this picture bringing along a hope for some sincere work to be done.While they seem to be slogging as hard as they can the woes of affected people touch my heart.The stark lack of humanity even in such situations sears it.I get to read about a man demanding a huge sum to save a family....I wish to corner him between the devil and the deep sea to see what might he do if he's stuck with nothing to give and I make such an atrocious demand.While I seem to be pointing out people with flaws even I am a part of this blame game.This makes me hope that alteast we ordinary people should learn not shrink from our moral,social,ethical or humanitarian responsibility towards others,unlike our supposed to be protectors-our politicians in name and their name in fame alone!!
Everyone finds it convinient to put the blame on the politicians. That's become a regular ritual in our country. What we don't realise is that they have families too, and floods are as much a catastrophe for them as it is for the rest.
ReplyDeleteSrisailam dam was built to handle a water gush of 10 lakh cusecs after taking into consideration the data of past 60 years, where in, only once did the water flow exceed 6 lakh cusecs. This year's rain that sent a whooping 15 lakh cusecs. Now who could have seen it coming? And despite the efforts put in by the government (amidst a political chaos, and possible crises) to handle the calamity, we still find pleasure in nitpicking them.
hey!!a dam is built so that we can save waters..but it also should be checked in case there are floods..as the dam's capacity is limited should'nt the rains this season be given enough attention to see if all the gates were working?though there seems to b a political crisis it dint start when the rains had started..
ReplyDeletedon't you think even the crisis that you mention dosent have much effect on the running of other departments?as the high authorities there are still the same?
i never asked the politicians to go out there and help..but are'nt we as much a family to them as their families are?considering they coming bonding relations when they need votes where did those namesake relationships go now?
don't you think the Meteorological department would have estimated such things??doesnt it show inefficiency?
i dont find pleasure pointing their faults rather i want all of us to aleast learn from their mistakes!!!
I don't deny the fact that the faulty gates added to the calamity but even IF the gates were working, even IF the meteorological dept. had warned us, it would have helped little in holding back the disaster. The design was so. No system is perfect. Inefficiency is an integral part of everything.
ReplyDeletei agree to the fact that it couldn't have helped much,nevertheless it would have helped to an extent.if one accepts inefficiency as part of our system then it would'nt help much.atleast in these times we should make it clear to the officials to stop thinking in terms of their benifit and help those lakhs of people who are homeless instead of wasting time blaming each other.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean "if one ACCEPTS inefficiency?" No-one would willingly accept inefficiency. The reality is that, like every other system, even ours is not cent percent efficient. And, it's very vital that we acknowledge it before being a critic.
ReplyDeletethats the problem....as you hav said in the other post....we just digest such things and move on..we acknowledge it and dont do much about it..so dosent it end up as accepting it?
ReplyDeleteThere's is a world of difference between acknowledging something and accepting something. Acknowledging one's inefficiency oneself would only lead to betterment, and hence acknowledgment is perfectly innocuous. So I don't see a reason how that is a problem.
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