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Edit|In late August 2023, a horrific accident occurred in the Indian state of Mizoram: 26 Indians fell from a railway bridge and died instantly. The railway bridge will be announced for completion in four months.
In the aftermath of the incident, the Minister of Home Affairs of Mizoram made an urgent speech in front of the television cameras. But it is well known that such accidents are simply commonplace for the minimalist level of India.
In the face of the high accident rate of infrastructure projects in India, some ** even exclaimed:Indian infrastructure is killing ordinary people in India!
Every year, accidents in India that occur directly or indirectly due to infrastructure projects are enough to cause the tragedy of tens of thousands of deaths. But both India** and ordinary people in India seem to have long been Xi to all this.
So, as a large country with a population of more than a billion people, why is India's infrastructure project so bad?In the face of the high accident rate, how does India** deal with it?
The Indian people who are **).
Next, let's take it slowly.
Deadly infrastructure works
In fact, an accident like the one that happened in Mizoram in August 2023 is not an unusual occurrence in Indian society at all. Because accidents that are worse than this abound in India.
It turns out that the accident of the collapse of the railway bridge in Mizoram has caused some repercussions in the local ** circles, and even the people of the capital region of India have reacted indifferently to the matter.
Also in 2023, the mountainous regions of northern India were hit by heavy rainfall, and a dam collapsed in an instant, resulting in 20 deaths and more than 100 missing.
Indian rescuers preparing rations for the population).
An Indian** was interviewed by the British news agency Reuters after the disaster. He told Reuters that after the dam collapsed, the flood water poured down 14 bridges and several villages.
The sudden heavy rain not only had a huge impact on the lives of local residents, but also left 2,500 foreign tourists stranded in northern India.
At the end of the interview, the Indian** also told reporters that the floods, which often occur in 2023, may be more ferocious than the floods in October 1968. The flood that year directly killed more than 1,000 people.
Indian staff at the rescue site).
In the face of a series of accidents in India's infrastructure projects, even the New York Times, which has never paid much attention to Indian news, published a commentator's article asking the Indian authorities: How many more people will die in India because of dam collapses in the future?
In fact, India** has not been able to give an exact figure on the number of deaths due to public infrastructure accidents each year. Because India's control over the grassroots is not firm, the death data in many accidents are "distorted".
Therefore, in the end, most of the death figures announced by India** will be a "confused account". Many people can only speculate on the death toll of every Indian infrastructure accident based on Western reports.
According to various reports and statistics, the number of deaths due to infrastructure projects in India is likely to reach tens of thousands every year.
Dam projects invested in the construction of India).
Corruption-ridden Indian engineering
As the world's most populous country, India has invested a lot in infrastructure construction. Wall Street** gave a statistical report at the end of August 2023.
India** has already spent more than $120 billion in infrastructure funding in the first eight months of 2023, according to the report. This shows that India's *** is at least interested in changing the status quo of India's infrastructure.
However, corruption at the grassroots level in India is a difficult problem. Whenever the special project funds are allocated, there will not be much left of these funds after being exploited by Indian bureaucrats at all levels.
Chairman of the Indian National Congress Party, Malikar Choun. Harg).
In September 2023, the leader of the Indian National Congress Party, Malikar Chung. In his public speech, Kharg directly criticized India's current Prime Minister Narendra Modi for conniving at corruption in India's infrastructure projects.
According to Malikar Khung, Modi is not only aware of the many corrupt practices in India's infrastructure projects, but may even be a participant.
In the past few years, a series of infrastructure accidents in India have shown that Modi is leading the country to a terrible "dark abyss".
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi).
Malikar Jong called for an internal review to prove his innocence as soon as possible. At the same time, he believes that this element of corruption has the potential to spread further into the health care system. Therefore, members of parliament must make some restrictive measures against Modi**.
Of course, it is likely that these words of Malikar Jong are just "obligatory criticism" from the perspective of Modi from the perspective of the opposition leader, but it is enough to show that corruption in India's infrastructure projects is a well-known problem.
Over the years, calls for an investigation into corruption in India have almost never stopped. However, every session of India's first action to investigate corruption often ends in a hurry.
India's Parliament House).
This has made many Indians extremely numb to the current corruption of infrastructure projects. People around the world seem to be slowly coming to terms with the reality of India's poor infrastructure.
Even if we look away from accident-prone projects such as dams and bridges, India's other infrastructure projects have produced some alarming results.
In March 2013, The New York Times conducted an investigation into India's coal-fired power plants. As a result, New York Times reporters found between 80,000 and 11,000 in India between 2011 and 2012 alone50,000 people died directly from diseases related to coal pollution.
Coal-fired power plants in India).
The initiators of the survey believe that this is because India's coal-fired power plants lack sufficient technology and equipment. At the same time, Indian workers use large quantities of low-quality coal in order to save money in the process of working.
As a result, these coal-fired power plants, which were meant to benefit ordinary Indians, have become "killing machines" that take people's lives.
Obviously, in the face of these Indian people who died due to coal pollution, India** will never count them in the "engineering death toll". This explains why there is a huge discrepancy between India's statistics** and those from the outside world.
Coal-fired power plants at work)
Deep-rooted backward culture
In August 2022, a local Indian newspaper conducted a report on infrastructure corruption in India. Commentators at the newspaper believe that if India wants to clean up corruption in infrastructure projects, it must start with funding for the construction of dams and roads.
But the Indian newspaper's commentary still misses the point, saying that it is not a certain institutional design that really makes India's infrastructure projects fall into a dead loop, but India's cultural soil.
While the tragedy of today's infrastructure projects in India may shock people outside India, Indian society as a whole has shown remarkable calm about these accidents. Because the average Indian person has almost no presence in this country.
Indian people holding a rally)
In the past, people were very fond of talking about the caste system in Indian society, and although the caste system has now been abolished by law, the distribution of wealth and resources in Indian society is almost strictly based on the caste system.
To this day, most of those who work as lawyers, professors, and doctors in Indian society come from the high-caste families of the past. And those who are dark and low-caste people will be trapped in the lowest jobs for generations because of economic poverty.
The fair-skinned high-caste population naturally plundered a lot of social wealth and resources, and when it came time to take away the construction funds, they didn't care at all about the workers and peasants who used the public works.
Indian farmer in the field).
Since this injustice has existed in India for hundreds of years, no one seems to dare to speak out against the system.
For India's elite, the point of building public works seems to be just window dressing. The elites at the top of Indian society are very keen to make India a "world power" that is ostensibly prosperous.
They don't really care about how much value public works can play in social production with a lot of money every year.
"High-caste" women in India).
When the levee collapses, the flood is unlikely to hit the houses of the wealthy, and the only people who lose their land and means of production are the peasants and petty bourgeoisie at the bottom of Indian society.
In fact, this cultural ill in Indian society has been sown as early as the time India declared independence. Because India did not have a social revolution from below at the time of independence, the vast majority of the people were not awakened at all.
For ordinary Indians at that time, India's independence from British colonial rule was just a change of tax payer. And there is a natural estrangement between the elites at the top of Indian society and the people at the bottom of India.
India's current Prime Minister Narendra Modi).
Today, this gap has been widened by various factors. So much so that whenever there is a tragedy in Indian society, this kind of estrangement and contradiction will be nakedly displayed in front of people.
Objectively speaking, as a large country with a population of more than one billion, India does not lack labor force and room for development. What the Indian people really lack is a person who serves the people wholeheartedly.
Until the people of India emancipate themselves, tragedy may continue one after another. But history will prove an irrefutable truth to the world
Only when a country serves the people wholeheartedly and considers issues from the standpoint of the people can it win the support of the overwhelming majority of the people. Otherwise, no matter how powerful the country may be, it will still be a soulless shell.
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