Death of school girls, responsibility must be fixed
Seven girls died in a New Delhi school on Thursday 10th Sept. 2009 following a stampede. Although the government has announced compensation for the victims but nothing has been said about punishing those responsible for these deaths.
IT IS extremely sad and painful that the gruesome incidence in which seven school girls lost their lives in a deadly stampede at a Delhi School in Khajuri Khas is is being handled like a routine incident. The matter is being clearly handled in a cavalier manner even as seven families have lost their daughters and they don’t even know, whom to blame. Just after a look at the school and the locality, we find that this school is situated in a poor unauthorised colony, where there is no basic infrastructure available. Most of the students are from lower socio-economic strata of and this is one of the most neglected areas of Delhi .
There are 1600 unauthorised colonies, hundreds of Jhuggi Jhompri clusters and rural villages in the city and more than 70 per cent of the population of the city lives in these areas. They do not have access to piped drinking water, most of these areas are not connected with regular sewage system, and these areas do not have access to primary health centres and other basic infrastructure. Sending their girl child to school is never an easy decision for parents from these backgrounds. Most of the girls, who go to schools in these areas are first in the history of their families to attend school.
Fear of uncertainty is the biggest fear that stops parents from continuing the education of their girl child. Everywhere in Delhi, eve teasing is a common phenomenon outside such schools.
Most often girls do not even tell incidents of harassment to their parents because of the fear that their parents might stop sending them to school. A distant dream that this education may help them change their fate and make them come out of the vicious circle of poverty is the motivation that makes these girls brave that in spite of all odds they keep striveing for better education and opportunities. Every girl, who is continuing higher education in these schools is doing so at her own risk. Insecure environment, lack of basic infrastructure and fear of uncertain are common barriers to their path apart from religious and social traditions. As such is it important that those responsible for the death of these girls should be held accountable for the murder of innocent dreams? People, who have this responsibility of creating an enabling environment and also of ensuring that every citizen especially weaker ones like these girls from poor strata of society face no such problems They instead have have more important work to do ilike the organisation of Commonwealth Games in 2010. Around 12 years back more than 30 school children died in Delhi, when a school bus fell into the yamuna river apparently because of the age old narrow bridge at wazirabad. Government and authorities then immediately announced that a new and wider bridge will be constructed at that place. But nothing has happened even after twelve years of the incident. In a city where more than 60 per cent population does not get piped water supply, where equal number of people do not have access to basic health facility, where quality education is still a luxury afforded by only 10 per cent people of the society, where sewage, pukka roads and complete nutrient diet are still a distant dream for a major section of population, where labour rights are alien concept, this question naturally comes to the mind of concerned citizens of Delhi “Are you ready for the games?” and the only definite and sensible answer to this is “No”. Death of these girls should wake up the authorities to the hard core realities of poor standards of infrastructure and administration and they should take urgent actions to address these issues, hiding in the unrealistic world of games is surely not the way to go.
Fear of uncertainty is the biggest fear that stops parents from continuing the education of their girl child. Everywhere in Delhi, eve teasing is a common phenomenon outside such schools.
Most often girls do not even tell incidents of harassment to their parents because of the fear that their parents might stop sending them to school. A distant dream that this education may help them change their fate and make them come out of the vicious circle of poverty is the motivation that makes these girls brave that in spite of all odds they keep striveing for better education and opportunities. Every girl, who is continuing higher education in these schools is doing so at her own risk. Insecure environment, lack of basic infrastructure and fear of uncertain are common barriers to their path apart from religious and social traditions. As such is it important that those responsible for the death of these girls should be held accountable for the murder of innocent dreams? People, who have this responsibility of creating an enabling environment and also of ensuring that every citizen especially weaker ones like these girls from poor strata of society face no such problems They instead have have more important work to do ilike the organisation of Commonwealth Games in 2010. Around 12 years back more than 30 school children died in Delhi, when a school bus fell into the yamuna river apparently because of the age old narrow bridge at wazirabad. Government and authorities then immediately announced that a new and wider bridge will be constructed at that place. But nothing has happened even after twelve years of the incident. In a city where more than 60 per cent population does not get piped water supply, where equal number of people do not have access to basic health facility, where quality education is still a luxury afforded by only 10 per cent people of the society, where sewage, pukka roads and complete nutrient diet are still a distant dream for a major section of population, where labour rights are alien concept, this question naturally comes to the mind of concerned citizens of Delhi “Are you ready for the games?” and the only definite and sensible answer to this is “No”. Death of these girls should wake up the authorities to the hard core realities of poor standards of infrastructure and administration and they should take urgent actions to address these issues, hiding in the unrealistic world of games is surely not the way to go.
.The Govt should take responsiability for this School incident and make a search for those boys who are responsiable for this. By saying that the media has the photographs of the foulty boys. The the teachers of the school must be expelled.
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