Article 21 of our Constitution gives RIGHT
TO LIFE to every person residing in India
no person shall be deprived of his life or
personal liberty
The hon. Supreme
Court in its various judgements has given positive and very broad
interpretation of this Article. In actual
practice The Indian State seems to be violating this article both at policy
formulation and implementation level. The
non-functioning CCTV cameras at the blast site in Pune on 1,8, 2012 is the
latest example. Earlier also there have been numerous incidents of CCTV cameras
installed in government establishments failing the investigating agencies at
the time of terrorist attack, accidents, road rage violence or crimes against
women. The most blatant case of playing with the lives of our defence and
security agencies is the supply of substandard bullet-poof jackets. At the time
of 26/11 it cost precious lives of our police personnel. Whenever these
omissions and commissions come to light due to man made calamity the police and
other concerned authorities have explanations for non functional gadgets
installed by government in public establishments. But the responsibility is
never fixed. Why are these gadgets not maintained? If the installing agency was
not equipped to maintain them what was the logic behind installing them? We are
never told. It is the public money that is wasted in installing these nonfunctional gadgets and
nobody is held responsible for this waste.
Similar non-concern is shown
towards the safety of children going to privately- run schools. Because the
parents of these children are well off they spent huge amounts of money on
their(children’s) education. They (the children) travel long distances in their
school buses which are quite costly. While, money is extracted from hapless
parents on one pretext or the other no concern have been shown towards the
safety of these children. We read the news of a Xth standard boy dying because
the windows of the school bus he was travelling were not properly protected. A
little girl slips from the huge hole in the floor of school bus and gets
crushed by the same bus she was travelling. Yet nobody is accountable. No body
is punished. Government uses public
money to provide compensation. No explanations are given as to who is
responsible for getting the Supreme Court directives regarding the safety of
school buses implemented. Why are they not being implemented? Parents too, who are
well placed, leave no stone unturned to
help their wards to be at top in the class or in the school do not seem to be
worried about the safety of their children. Because we do not read news about
parents joining hands and forcing the authorities to implement the hon. Courts
directions regarding the safety of school buses. One does not knot whether many
parents have time to find out what these directives are and why they were given
by the court?
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