God given job with Indian railways
From correspondents in New Dehli
July 5, 2004
INDIA'S railways minister has absolved himself of blame for accidents plaguing the world's largest train network, saying the fate of its 13 million daily passengers rested with the Hindu god of machines, Vishwakarma.
"Indian Railways is the responsibility of Lord Vishwakarma," Laloo Prasad Yadav said, as quoted Friday by The Times of India newspaper.
"So is the safety of passengers. It is his duty (to ensure safety), not mine. I have been forced to don his mantle," the mercurial minister said on a visit to his hometown of Patna in eastern India.
Yadav's statement came less than a month after 20 people were killed and around 100 injured when a passenger train plunged off a bridge in western India after hitting a boulder.
India's railway system, which stretches 108,700km across the nation of more than a billion people, sees accidents large or small nearly every day owing in part to badly outdated infrastructure.
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Is he freaking serious? So God is now in charge of making sure that all tracks
are up to code & that all train operators aren't on dope? I'd say he's busy enough
with the big things. If this guy has "donned the mantle of God" then he should be
looking out for the "little" things! Geez.
posted by Chris O. @ 7/05/2004 08:27:00 PM
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