2008-09-30

Under construction Bridge collapses in Lucknow: India or Canada!


On 30 September 2008, as news of an under construction bridge collapsing in Lucknow spread on television news channel I rushed on to the internet to search for the news feed being made available. A search on Google revealed that an under construction bridge has collapsed in Lucknow. As I was getting impatient to read the news I followed the very first link made available, not realizing that it was of CTV. As I read the first few lines I realized that the contents of the news are similar to what I knew but something was there which was not fitting into the real picture।


And the later lines in the news item made it clear that I was reading a piece from CANADA and not INDIA. This incident happened in Lucknow (some place in Ontario, Canada) on Sunday, Nov. 11 2007. The search was made on Google with the words lucknow bridge collapses and all the results on page one of the search except second last one from INDIA TODAY did not talk about the bridge collapse I was looking for।


What a co-incidence?


That a place with similar name exists in Canada and there too an under construction bridge had collapsed as a 'concrete block crumbled' while workers were trying to move it. Six people were reported dead there too and that it was also 'a brand new bridge', as revealed by the news report. Sounds similar and familiar to what happened here in Lucknow at India


But what was not similar was that; there the victims were 'airlifted to hospital' and the 'search for more people under debris was on।' The Ministry of Labour was inquiring in Ontario and in Lucknow our Ministers, sensing good chance to gain political mileage, were doing (shifting) the blame upon each other. There the bridge was in news and INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED BY THE CANDAIN PRESS as it was 'ten weeks behind schedule' and here who cares even if the bridge was five years behind schedule or fifty years behind schedule.


Just a comparison for all of us to think upon.


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