With the onset of monsoon fury, yes, this time it was fury,
no doubt, Uttarkhand, the State carved out of Uttar Pradesh falling victim,
Indian citizens as a whole are mourning the deaths of thousands of lives swept
away (please don't go by official figures, it needs only commonsense to realize the
gravity of the situation) along with tourist resorts, temples, factories,
illegally constructed along the river banks and cattles even while the rescue
operations are in full swing. Thousands are still stranded, thousands
displaced, thousands thought to be alive gone missing - all provide a grim
picture of the situation prevailing there.
Why such a destruction of intense magnitude have taken place
is question staring in the face of everyone, each time the nature turns its
fury.
Environmentalists are of the view that with hundreds of resorts
- pilgrim centres nowadays are tourist resorts - built on the fragile soil
along the hilly areas facing sacred rivers and number of factories built along
the banks of sacred rivers following no environmental standards couldn’t
withstand the fury of the torrential rains, cloudbursts, frequent landslips all
came down resulting in a crumbling disaster of this magnitude.
Ministers, be it by Prime Minister, or for the same reason
Chief Ministers undertaking aerial flights are not a panacea for the
disaster-stricken people. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) should
have forseen such an eventuality not only on the matters of climate changes and
aftermaths but almost in every field like infrastructure facilities like
transportation, irrigation, electrification etc. Sadly, we Indians are always a
bit too late or notorious for acting on the spur of the moments. As long as
this mindset stays put Indian citizens are left to the whims and fancies of
Nature and God. These are times when Indian Godmen and Godwomen are appearing
on facebooks sitting in faraway nations enjoying all materialistic benefits and
undertaking meditations or teaching meditation to worshippers. Let us meditate
with them. All will be fine, no doubt.
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