Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Bihar Floods
Year on year - its the same story. North Bihar gets flooded. Lakhs of people migrate to save their lives and to live their life. I dont understand what the government and authorities have been doing since years., sorry decades. Since childhood i have been hearing about these floods through newspapers and news channels. What has been stopping government to create a plan and put it into action so that the extra volume of water can be nicely managed? If its Nepal, I am sure we being India can manage Nepal and that too for a cause wherein thousand of people die every year.There is a heavy lack of political will that the poors are made to suffer every year. I recently read about some families who have lost their homes due to floods 14 times in last 60 years. Can the politicians even imagine what must be going on in these families. They have been loosing homes every 4/5 years. I read about a family wherein the husband was sleeping on the roof of house with one kid and the wife was downstairs with another kid. They were owners of a kirana shop. Floods came and in minutes wife and the kid were drowned, house collapsed and the husband ran to save his life with his kid. Now, he has arrived at New Delhi railway station in hope of new life. I wish such things should have happened with lalu prasad, mayawati or mulayam singh. Then they will realise the irony of being poor.The heavy taxes we pay get pocketed by these politicians and our brothers and sisters who should actually get the benefit keep waiting. We should have a system designed in a way that taxes collected should directly be sent for the purpose they have been collected without passing through the control of corrupt politicians. Crisis management may be privatised or whichever way. ...May god bless all who are suffering from floods in Bihar.
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