{"id":35326,"date":"2018-10-31T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35326"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:56:27","slug":"voting-for-man-made-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/voting-for-man-made-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting for man-made disasters:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Opinion\/qUCN2ce76AbZ7FtSLPCedP\/Voting-for-manmade-disasters.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voting for man-made disasters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The root cause of man-made disasters in August is the conscious errors of omission and commission by the state<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tragic month of this year<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The month of August was a disaster-filled month for India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dozens of infant deaths in a government-run hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">frenzied rioting after a godman was convicted in the rape of two followers, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Untold deaths and millions displaced in massive floods in Bihar,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A night of horrendous commutes in Mumbai following torrential rains, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aftermath of significant flooding in the North-East\u2014 these marked only the most notable disasters during the month.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Water, waterlogging, and waterborne disease<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is common to the disasters above is that they are all about water, related disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that they are man-made with a collapse in administration and a sharp political failure<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The Gorakhpur deaths<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gorakhpur deaths that took place early in August were allegedly due to the lack of oxygen supply in the hospital.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tragedy exposed the weakness of the entire public health system<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The incident exposed a severe shortage of trained nurses, doctors and an absolutely failed political and administrative system with dysfunctional incentives and accountability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japanese encephalitis overwhelms the region due to rampant mosquito breeding consequent to annual floods in the low-lying region. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impact, particularly on the rural poor, continues year after year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kosi flooded again this year and 500 people are dead and nearly 17million have been rendered homeless in Mithila.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way ahead<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State complicity in illegal construction is the primary reason for the repeated collapse.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sycophancy of the political establishment simply to align with vote banks is reaching a new high.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rioting by lawless goons was an issue because the political and administrative machinery has been totally captured by such godmen<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for man-made disasters:\u00a0 Context The root cause of man-made disasters in August is the conscious errors of omission and commission by the state Tragic month of this year The month of August was a disaster-filled month for India. Dozens of infant deaths in a government-run hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, frenzied rioting after a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/voting-for-man-made-disasters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voting for man-made disasters:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913534},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}