Sandeep's death in a Borewell-IBN27Apr2007

M B Nataraj
Fourteen year old Sandeep's death by falling into an open borewell, was a regrettable and preventable accident.At around the same time Three college teachers near yelahanka were mowed down and killed by a jeep driver who was probably drunk and todate untraceable. I donot see the same kind of media coverage, sympathy out pour for losing 3 provenly valuable assets to the society who had contributed atleast about 100 man years of service teaching our youngsters.Their families will have to struggle for years in courts to even get any kind of compensation(a third or more of which will be swallowed by the lawyers despite a no contingency fee rule on the paper).The insurance does not have to pay if the driver is proven drunk at the time.It is not likely since he has not yet been traced 96 hours later.Can we afford to spend 14 lakhs of tax payers moneyin this kind of rescue exercise?A few lakhs instead could have been given to the parents as compensation.The rest spent on more urgent needs.I suspect extra media attention forced the district administration to go to all this extavaganza.or have they really spent that kind of money or is it just a scam to skim some money?