Prayag Mahakumbh Tragedy a failure of the U.P Government & the Railways

Yesterday more than 40 devotees who had come to take a holy dip into the confluence of the Ganga, the Yamuna and the mythological Saraswati lost their lives in a horribly painful stampede in the holy city of Prayag. Many more lives of the wounded were lost due to inefficient and insensitive local administration that completely failed to rise to the occasion to provide quick medical help.

Any such mammoth congregation requires meticulous, anticipated and pre-planned   safety & security set-up in place by the administration. Social as well as administrative pre-audit of measures is inalienably linked with the primary duty of the government to tackle a potential man made disaster like the one happened yesterday. 

U.P has become a misruled state. Goondaism, lawlessness, communal strives and collapse of the structure of governance has become order of the day.