Whiz Creed

Cost of taking something lightly can prove to be life of an innocent child is something I could have never imagined.

While coming back from office I got down at Uttam Nagar East Metro station and noticed that there were few kids sliding on the slope built for escalator. I quickly went to the nearest security official on duty and requested him to stop those kids as someone could get hurt. In response he said, (”marta bhi toh nahi hai koi, tabhi manenge yeh”) why don’t one of them die only then they will stop. I could make out that this man is not going to help so I went to customer care center and informed them about the same, all he could do was suggest me to contact security officials around. I finally went to another security official and asked him to stop the kids, he said to me that he would do the needful. Keeping his words I left from the station.

While travelling back from Ajmer in train I thought of reading newspaper out of the blues, and I found the article attached with this post. I was shocked and filled with grief for myself. All I could think was if I would have filed a complaint that day then this might not have happened or those responsible for this would get punished.

Indians have a very peculiar quality of forgetting things easily and I am quite sure same would have happened in this case as well. Officials at DMRC have easily stated this as an accident where as they are the ones who were responsible like how can this happen even when they claim to have covered every corner of metro stations with surveillance cameras.

I send email telling about this to all my friends, contacts and even Hindustan times but nothing could be done.