It wouldn’t matter that 17 people, all of them were workers in the factory, lost their lives in the mishap. After all, people dying for no fault of their own is too insignificant an incident for the government to crack the whip. In the wake of the Mumbai fire tragedy on December 29, five civic officials were suspended as a face-saving gesture. The Mumbai civic corporation, when it deigns to carry out a fire audit in residential and commercial establishments, turns it into an opportunity to seek bribes. How many of us remember that 12 workers died of asphyxiation in a Mumbai snacks factory just 10 days before the Kamala Mills tragedy?

Source: dna January 22, 2018 02:26 UTC