NOW or NEVER

Its three days since the Black Sunday in KGP. While the campus seems to have more or less returned to normal; there are the political brains out there trying their best to undo whatever loss they have incurred. Referring to the two articles in Telegraph this morning.

First one says that there was just an unavoidable delay in attending to Rohit which cost him his life and that there has been no negligence by the hospital or the authorities here. How ridiculous!! For the facts we would just like to remind them of the two Open House sessions this academic year.

The first session:
Query: Sir the BCRTH cannot provide for even the basic medical facilities. The staff is utterly non-cooperative. Something should be done to improve it.
DD: You know some time back I met a guy from MIT. He went around the campus and told me all things apart, sir, the state of your hospital and medical facilities is as worse as in MIT.(How proud to say that!!!) So you know some things are as they are. We will try something.

Second session:
Again the same query.
The Director’s answer: Nothing can be done about BCRTH. Cope with it.

A month later a student dies and still the administration thinks it was not due to their negligence?

In another article telegraph mentions about the deplorable conditions of food, accommodation and healthcare facilities here. There’s a particular response about mess food by DD we would like to point out: "It is difficult to provide food to suit all tastes. People come here from every region. Their tastes vary."

Cases after cases have been reported and brought to notice of the administration be it the food or the health problems. Why then do they turn a deaf ear? Tomorrow someone else among us; might be the person writing this post fall into an emergency. Shouldn’t I be afraid of my life? People say we are fighting for Rohit. No, its for us. Whatever we do or make them do, Rohit’s not coming back. But what we will ensure is that we don’t fall the next in line.

Are our lives worth nothing? We all have our families behind us. Designated the cream of our country- the best brains- all eyes remain fixed on us. And what treatments are we meted at the hands of some self-centered diplomats? Rohit, Anshu-both had families who would have rejoiced at their selection; who would have dreams chasing his future that how he would be a support to his family; their pride. What wrong had they done?? Or their families had done? Is an IITian’s life worth nothing?? One of us dies and everyone washes their hands off the matter. We can’t point out who exactly was responsible; but those who are supposed to solve the very problems which led to the death aren’t they an accomplice in the unfortunate incident; or should we call it a murder?


We'll protest until we get satisfied with the progress of the work.