I wanted to write on this the very first day but because of job change not getting time for internet, and then Mridula left a comment and asked to write on same and finally I managed to write about meerut Fire.

Remember that master card’s advertisement which ends with ‘…There is something money can’t buy, for everything else there is master card’. This is so true when it comes to emotions, love, friendship, relations and ofcourse life. But I think government does not understand this thats why after every tragedy they announce to give couple of thousands rupees to the family of a person who dies, couple of hundreds to those injured. Meerut fire incident was not the exception. Ticket to the death cave was Rs. 10 and those who were not able to come back realized later that price for life was just Rs. 2 Lakh. At the end, it didn’t matter who the person was, what his/her religion was, what cast he/she belongs to, old, young or child everybody has the same price tag for his life Rs. 2 Lakh.

A district megistrate has the same responsibilty for the city as a CM has for the state and PM has for the country. Then how can a DM innaugarte an event not get clearence by police and fire department. And even after knowing this how can police or fire department allowed this event to happened in the first place. Just to earn Rs. 10 per person organizers made only one exit so that they don’t lose their free money.

I noticed here in USA, a fire truck, couple of police car always stand by in such event, not in the garage but at the same place where event actually happening. Even if not around, the response time is very good, from no where they appeared in minutes. Why this thing couldn’t be implement in India. I think now what people should do before going to such places, just make sure there is enough exists in case of emergency and fire tuck and police vehicle is present at event site. If none of this true then dodn’t visit it. If everyone start doing this, organisers of such event will not have any option other than providing those necessacity.

I also heard (and watched in TV someone saying) that somebody ordered to run buldozer over the park where this tragedy happened so no trace could be avaiable, how can they do this? Every such tragedy also bring some heroic characters out of regular face of human being. In this case too we come to know such faces, There is Javed, one another fire fighter (I think Vijay is his name), Pooja and couple more unknown faces too. Who didn’t care about their life to save others and at the end they even didn get a good care.

“I lost my son because they did not take good care of him. If they had taken good care, he would still be alive. The Meerut doctors kept him alive for three days but as soon as he was brought to Delhi, he died,” his mother Anida Begum cried.

His father said he had hoped the boy would survive once he was shifted to Safdarjung. “My pocket was picked in this hospital. In the morning, the oxygen was over and when we told the doctors and nurses who were around about it, they did not bother. I think in that delay, he died. We were informed of his death only at 10 am though he had died much earlier,” Mizaz said.

As news of his death spread, friends and family members poured into the hospital. Alleging negligence, his friends demanded to see the body.

Ashok Randhawa of the Sarojini Nagar Market Association, who was at the hospital at 8.30 am helping out with the victims, said: “Javed had died at around 6 am. However, it was only around 8 am that the staff came out and called for his father. His mother was already complaining that no one was attending to her son.

Spoiled son of rich people don’t know how hard it’s to earn money because it’s easily avaiable to them, a labor doesn’t know how important a good night sleep could be for others because as soon he lay down he just gets it, same way India or most of the Indian doesn’t know how precious a human life is because………..