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Die on the road: But the “VIP” must have the way
Life, ever since it comes into the existence, is in constant struggle with the death, with latter always having the last laugh. The angel of death, in discharge of its duties, has, ingeniously, devised so many means to escape the blame. Road accident is one of such noticeable means. We experience it nearer home almost daily. When life rolls on the Jammu roads, in pursuit of keeping body and soul together for some time, it comes very close to its tormentor, thanks to the rage one daily witnesses in the congested roads ofthe city. Both haves and the have nots are on the road at the onset of a day to earn bread. In the madness one sees on the roads, it is a miracle if they come home unscathed. But how long can one ride his luck. It is a complete mayhem. Motorists yelling and shouting at one another. Some engaged in physical scuffle. Vehicles dented.Glasses broken and pieces littered here and there. Long motor cues - occasionally head on, narrow lanes, encroached pavements, no traffic regulations and free for all juvenile vehicular acrobatics is a common sight. Opening of the 'Darbar' has added to the woes, with thousands of more vehicles pouring in. Their beacon lights and the constant honking of the hooters multiply the problem.
For death to devour a person in the prime of his youth is as easy a meet as the one seriously ill, breathing his last in a traffic struck ambulance. Ambulance may brave the road congestion and inch forward but then it has to contend with the unending stream of “VIPs” who will at no cost surrender their “right” to bulldoze ahead out of turn, courtesy obliging traffic officials; who are nowhere to be found to rescue the helpless commuters or the ailing person but suddenly surface to grant out of turn passage to “our leaders.” The “VIP movement” generates exceptional activism among the traffic managers that they want the lesser mortals to disappear from the road. Their panic evoking shrills and frantic blowing of the siren pose a serious traffic threat. We know that the “VIP leaders” have a voice in their heads which never tells them truth. It plays the same old tune over and over again to pamper their inflated egos that they are the lords to run rough shod over us. They suffer from the voices of negative ego. Resultantly, they bring a heap of undeserved misfortune to a law abiding citizen; sometimes on the road and occasionally off the road, lost in paranoid thinking, giving significance to the their petty personal things, the “Leader” loses what matters most -- safety, dignity and welfare of a common citizen. They rush and jump the traffic signals, with impunity, in a misplaced belief that world is on the brink of a disaster which only they can avert. Who will tell these 'worthies' that instead of solving a problem of any type they create so many of the varied kinds. Moral and ethical decadence rules supreme.
The “VIP Movement”' is undoubtedly one of the main reasons for chronic road jams but there are other reasons also; like, the faulty city master plan, violation of building rules, lack of parking place, slackness on the part of traffic managers, encroachment of the pavements, absence of a civic sense in the citizenry, excessive vehicular population on the city roads than can be accommodated.
In India at least 13 persons die every year on the roads. We wish we had J&K DATA. Certainly, it can be far worse. Youngsters are the worst sufferers. Lancet researchers from WHO Children Hospital College London say that among various causes of death of the young personroad accidents constitute 10 %. Road accidents are a big drain on the public money, on account of the compensation that has to be paid to the victim or the heirs of the deceased who has lost life in a motor accident. Road rage and the road fatalities have become the biggest epidemic. The government must act, comprehensively and earnestly before it can result into a social and administrative upheaval of unmanageable proportions. But then could we have faith in the government to do something in this regard. After all it is constituted by these very “VIPs” who, instead of being helpful in solving the problem, have become inseparable part of it. Civil Society may be of some help. We can only hope? In any case, it is a shared responsibility.
(The author is former, Principal District & Sessions Judge)
Die on the road: But the “VIP” must have the way - Kashmir Times
Life, ever since it comes into the existence, is in constant struggle with the death, with latter always having the last laugh. The angel of death, in discharge of its duties, has, ingeniously, devised so many means to escape the blame. Road accident is one of such noticeable means. We experience it nearer home almost daily. When life rolls on the Jammu roads, in pursuit of keeping body and soul together for some time, it comes very close to its tormentor, thanks to the rage one daily witnesses in the congested roads ofthe city. Both haves and the have nots are on the road at the onset of a day to earn bread. In the madness one sees on the roads, it is a miracle if they come home unscathed. But how long can one ride his luck. It is a complete mayhem. Motorists yelling and shouting at one another. Some engaged in physical scuffle. Vehicles dented.Glasses broken and pieces littered here and there. Long motor cues - occasionally head on, narrow lanes, encroached pavements, no traffic regulations and free for all juvenile vehicular acrobatics is a common sight. Opening of the 'Darbar' has added to the woes, with thousands of more vehicles pouring in. Their beacon lights and the constant honking of the hooters multiply the problem.
For death to devour a person in the prime of his youth is as easy a meet as the one seriously ill, breathing his last in a traffic struck ambulance. Ambulance may brave the road congestion and inch forward but then it has to contend with the unending stream of “VIPs” who will at no cost surrender their “right” to bulldoze ahead out of turn, courtesy obliging traffic officials; who are nowhere to be found to rescue the helpless commuters or the ailing person but suddenly surface to grant out of turn passage to “our leaders.” The “VIP movement” generates exceptional activism among the traffic managers that they want the lesser mortals to disappear from the road. Their panic evoking shrills and frantic blowing of the siren pose a serious traffic threat. We know that the “VIP leaders” have a voice in their heads which never tells them truth. It plays the same old tune over and over again to pamper their inflated egos that they are the lords to run rough shod over us. They suffer from the voices of negative ego. Resultantly, they bring a heap of undeserved misfortune to a law abiding citizen; sometimes on the road and occasionally off the road, lost in paranoid thinking, giving significance to the their petty personal things, the “Leader” loses what matters most -- safety, dignity and welfare of a common citizen. They rush and jump the traffic signals, with impunity, in a misplaced belief that world is on the brink of a disaster which only they can avert. Who will tell these 'worthies' that instead of solving a problem of any type they create so many of the varied kinds. Moral and ethical decadence rules supreme.
The “VIP Movement”' is undoubtedly one of the main reasons for chronic road jams but there are other reasons also; like, the faulty city master plan, violation of building rules, lack of parking place, slackness on the part of traffic managers, encroachment of the pavements, absence of a civic sense in the citizenry, excessive vehicular population on the city roads than can be accommodated.
In India at least 13 persons die every year on the roads. We wish we had J&K DATA. Certainly, it can be far worse. Youngsters are the worst sufferers. Lancet researchers from WHO Children Hospital College London say that among various causes of death of the young personroad accidents constitute 10 %. Road accidents are a big drain on the public money, on account of the compensation that has to be paid to the victim or the heirs of the deceased who has lost life in a motor accident. Road rage and the road fatalities have become the biggest epidemic. The government must act, comprehensively and earnestly before it can result into a social and administrative upheaval of unmanageable proportions. But then could we have faith in the government to do something in this regard. After all it is constituted by these very “VIPs” who, instead of being helpful in solving the problem, have become inseparable part of it. Civil Society may be of some help. We can only hope? In any case, it is a shared responsibility.
(The author is former, Principal District & Sessions Judge)
Die on the road: But the “VIP” must have the way - Kashmir Times
