I have seen a few posts criticising Kolkata, its elected officials & its people. I'm no fan of the elected officials of the state of WB or the people who elected them but I do not think that this is a Kolkata specific problem. That it happened in Kolkata is merely incidental, all Indian cities have the same problem with people breaking building guidelines & the enforcers looking the other way for a bit of consideration. Just a terrible tragedy but one that no city in India is immune from.
What i am saying is that this tragedy is a manifestation of the state Kolkata is in !!!
you come to kolkata and you will understand the state of infrastructure, state of health services, state of roads...
You walk on the road here and you die..
you will say that it happens everywhere...
What you will not understand that you dies because you could not walk on a fully functional pavement which is occuped by hawkers..
the whole of Kolkata seems like a hawker zone..
You might die because buses here race to pick passenegrs and occassionbally mows them down
You can stop buses anywhere.. Bus stops are just for show
Autos might run without number plates
bloody food stalls are cosntructed on roads..
i have seen Kolkata since 1980s.. and I have seen Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai. among metros..
Mumbai, Delhi, chennai might not be heaven but they are better than Kolkata !