My day started with the horrifying headlines of the death of 3 small school children burnt to death when their LPG based school van caught fire. The same tragedy left 8 other small children aged between 5 and 9 with serious burns. Rukayya, 5, suffered 95% burns.
Their school van was illegally fitted with LPG. No doubt to make an extra buck for the owner who used it as a private school van to ferry 12 children to school. These Maruti vans are designed to carry 6 – 8 passengers.
So who is to blame? The owner who cut corners for profit? The authorities who turn a blind eye to such operators? The school authorities who do not provide transportation and quickly washed their hands off? The desperate parents who trust their children to such death traps?
Today it was front page news. Tomorrow it will be forgotten. This nation where a few million children die every year of diease, hunger & accident has a very thick skin. Film actors like Chiranjeevi get headlines but who cares about a few small children who die a horrible death?
Times Of India Front Page, Jan 30, 2008
Another child died in a hail of bullets on the India Bangladesh border. Another young life lost without cause.
Does anybody care? Can we do something? Can we make this country safer for our children?
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