India's Shame
The cataclysmic flooding in Bihar, the worst in India's modern history, isn't the national calamity.
It is what is unfolding now. Eighteen days after India's most notorious and unpredictable Kosi River suddenly breached an embankment and changed its course uprooting millions of people, thousands remain trapped in homes, crushed in poorly resourced relief camps or just sleeping hungry on the road. It is a stunning indictment on how India's central government, the Bihar administration, and local and international NGOs reacted to the tragedy that has touched the lives of at least 25 million people.
Across the misery-seeped expanse, there are no facilities set up to help trace missing peoples. No trauma care facilities. There are no international NGOs, who have in the past complained that India did not give them access in such situations.
"The prime minister came here and called it a national tragedy If this is how our nation reacts to this tragedy, this is just a cruel joke on us, isn't it?" said Giraj Rishi Yaday, as he sat in a relief camp after walking the whole morning in waist-deep water.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
It is what is unfolding now. Eighteen days after India's most notorious and unpredictable Kosi River suddenly breached an embankment and changed its course uprooting millions of people, thousands remain trapped in homes, crushed in poorly resourced relief camps or just sleeping hungry on the road. It is a stunning indictment on how India's central government, the Bihar administration, and local and international NGOs reacted to the tragedy that has touched the lives of at least 25 million people.
Across the misery-seeped expanse, there are no facilities set up to help trace missing peoples. No trauma care facilities. There are no international NGOs, who have in the past complained that India did not give them access in such situations.
"The prime minister came here and called it a national tragedy If this is how our nation reacts to this tragedy, this is just a cruel joke on us, isn't it?" said Giraj Rishi Yaday, as he sat in a relief camp after walking the whole morning in waist-deep water.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
Labels: Bihar, crisis, flooding, Kosi River, military rescuers, national calamity, panchayat, people, relief operations, Rescue operations
posted by PressMart Team at
10:07 AM
0 Comments
