Poor relief management
The Himalayan Times
4 May 2015
Poor relief management
The April 25 earthquake pushed the nation
into social and economic chaos. It has left the people of the effected areas
into severe traumatic state. Both the human casualties and infrastructure
damages are substantially high. The state machinery has been found ineffective
in providing both search and rescue operation and has been badly criticised
from all sides if the new story “Govt slammed for poor post-quake management”
(THT, 2 May, Page 5) is to be believed.
It has completely failed in putting the
effective rescue operation in place for the first three days of post-quake
period when the chances of survival of the trapped persons would be very high
albeit there were some cases of rescuing the people from the debris after
three/four days. However, the government presence in many heavily effected
areas was not felt by the affected people even after five days in-spite of
their repeated calls to the concerned authorities.
Had this government prepared itself for
effectively tackling this kind of natural calamity beforehand, the chances of
saving lives of the people would be high and also of limiting the damages to
the infrastructures. None of the previous governments were serious about the
earthquake preparedness.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj.
