Friday 26 August 2011

what is your Human Quotient?

This is in continuation of my previous blog 'What is your Human Quotient/' where I mentioned about a lady being crushed by vehicles the whole day and the flesh scattered on the road(Guna).
Another incident of the same magnitude of being 'INHUMAN':

Chattarpur-22/08/11

Narpat Singh, an elderly man of village Gau died in a TB hospital. and his dead body had to struggle for the cremation for two days.The only survivor of the man was his 68 yrs. old wife The bewildered widow did not know how to go about the cremation ceremony of her husband as she didn't have enough money to arrange for it, when she approached the neighbors for help, they pooled up some money and the cremation wood was bought but was too less for the process, on someone's suggestion the woods at the roof top of the hut of the man were taken and the dead body was put on the fire but was not to much help, some worn out tyres were used but look at the irony, the body was still unburnt. The following day, some people with a low human quotient(at least they have it) finally burn the dead body and the soul with a tremendous struggle met 'parmatma'.

The events that took place in the mean time included:

-finding out the rules of Municipal Corporation-as per section 123 of Nagar Palika Adhiniyam 1961, only construnction of cremation grounds comes nder its purview not the cremation ceremony
-As per Chief Minister's 'Mazdoor Surakhsha Yojna'(Labor Security Scheme)  an immediate compensation of Rs. 2000 is given to the family of the deceased.(though 'immediate' can be more than a week)
-When the SDM was approached the reply was " the case doesn't come under my territory"
-Collector Chhatrpur,"There's a clause for the cremation process if the deceased were registered under 'karmkar mandal; the nagar palika must have taken the initiative, right now I am out of station, will put up an inquiry once I return".

And of course this is not the end of this heart rending incident if I don't mention the 'Post death rather Post cremation events:

-A local leader came with a compensation and promised to continue it for...(an idefinite period)
- A congress leader came with a cash of Rs. 2100
-An MLA 'gifted' Rs. 1000 and promised an extended amount of Rs.5000
- Rs.10000 on account of 'Nagar Palika president's Family welfare Scheme' and a cash of 5000 by a leader of 'Yuva Morcha"

So Rs.23100 and all set. At the outset of Anna Hazare's fighting against corruption and bringing back the Black money from Swiss Bank' the poor Common man's fate is still the same.

WHAT IS THE HUMAN QUOTIENT OF ALL THESE PEOPLE??????
IT WAS THE CREMATION OF HUMANITY.....