It was rare occurrence.
Some lonely time here in Udaipur, my hometown. I am currently spending some quality time home. Summers is worst this year. It feels really hot and unpleasant here.
When at home, my time and schedule goes quite different from normal college routine. At home I turn twice lazy and spends my time in least productive way.
Yesterday (Friday, May 27, 2011) something strange happened. We were in Mayur shopping complex, sector -5. Me and my mom were window shopping around. Before the equilibrium between customer choice and shop's availability could match some random chaos happened, he felled down the terrace.
Gravity, a free fall, an impulsive sound, screening noises. Thundering atmosphere, crowded road. Ambulance rush.
That moment, those seconds !
May be it made me feel - How precious is life !
Ambulance and delay time: Formalities
Life and risk
Safety and India
Perhaps many buildings and popular places in India are not safe as compared to other places around the globe. We sacrifice safety to make things cheaper. Problem is we don't value human life. To our government cost of one person is just around ~3 lakhs. What this means is - if some death is caused due to some accident in some company/workplace, that respective firm is only liable to pay these 3 lakhs to family of sacrificed. So, all multinationals and big players can get away with safety measures. For companies, only concern is profit. Now, its better to pay 3 lakhs for one dead rather then invest a lot of money to work on safety standards.
It's not just companies, its general mentality of people to pay less for safe side. Don't you prefer a cheaper low standard helmet - just to show off that police wala and get away with traffic rules. Our buildings are not designed to take into account fire accidents. Typical buildings abroad have fire alarms and dozen more safety standards as compared to India.
Actually, even what we cook in our kitchens is that smoke-rich that Indian food easily trigger alarms and often is false positive. This is what used to happen, when I used to cook food last summers.
Also we have a lot of formalities.
As this post is in connection with accidents, let me inform and rephrase our basic rights. Its just - if some of your relative met with an accident ..then how do you go about
Here it goes:
The Supreme Court has ruled that all injured persons especially in the case of road traffic accidents, assaults, etc., when brought to a hospital / medical centre, have to be offered first aid, stabilized and shifted to a higher centre / government centre if required. It is only after this that the hospital can demand payment or complete police formalities. In case you are a bystander and wish to help someone in an accident, please go ahead and do so. Your responsibility ends as soon as you leave the person at the hospital. The hospital bears the responsibility of informing the police, first aid, etc.
With our complicated driving habbits and get away traffic rules, I wander cost of life on Indian roads ?
Abhi kai liye itna hi, may be will add later.
