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Saturday, March 15, 2008

शुद्ध जल पूर्ति का जन अधिकार

जल जीवन है, जल का संचय जीवन संचय, जल का छय है जीवन का छय ।

दिल्ली जल बोर्ड की जिम्मेद्दारी है दिल्ली निवासिओं को सुरक्षित और पूरी मात्रा मैं पीने योग्य जल सप्लाई करना. इस काम मैं बोर्ड हमेशा नाकामयाब रहा है. अभी केंद्रीय सरकार ने भी माना है की दिल्ली मैं सप्लाई किया जा रहा पानी सब-स्टैंडर्ड है. लेकिन एक सरकारी मंत्री के अनुसार सरकार के पास पानी पर टैक्स लगाने के अलाबा पानी की गुणवत्ता सुधारने की या तो कोई काबलियत नहीं है या उस का ऐसा कोई इरादा नहीं है. दिल्ली की मुख्य मंत्री को तो अखवार मैं अपने फोटो छपबाने से ही फुरसत नहीं मिलती. आज के अखबार मैं भी, जनता के पैसे से छपबाये गए, कई ऐसे विज्ञापन हैं जिन मैं उनका फोटो छापा गया है.

भारतीय मानक ब्यूरो ने सुरक्षित पीने योग्य पानी का मानक बना रखा है पर दिल्ली जल बोर्ड मैं समय-समय पर शायद पानी की टेस्टिंग करबाने का कोई सिस्टम नहीं है. इस मानक का नुम्बर है - आई एस १०५०० - और इस मानक मैं पानी के बहुत सारे टेस्ट दिए गए हैं. यदि इस मानक के अनुसार पानी समय-समय पर टेस्ट करबाया जाए और कोई कमी पाए जाने पर उचित कार्यवाही की जाए तब दिल्ली के निवासी शुद्ध पानी पी सकेंगे और अनेक वीमारिओं से छुटकारा पा सकेंगे.

१५ मार्च, विश्व उपभोक्ता अधिकार दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता है. इस वर्ष भी मनाया गया। सरकार ने विज्ञापन छापे और अपने कर्तव्य की इतिश्री की। क्या दिल्ली जल बोर्ड और दिल्ली सरकार अपने उपभोक्ताओं के शुद्ध जल की आपूर्ति के अधिकार का हनन बंद करेगी?

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Safety in hospitals

People go to hospitals to get well. If they get well then their good luck should get more credit than the efforts of doctors and hospital administration & staff. We have been hearing stories about wrong treatment and delayed treatment.But now there are news about safety also. A prematurely-born five day old girl was charred to death as the warmer, in which she was being treated for jaundice, was not safe. I short circuit in the warmer sparked a fire. This bizarre incident happened in Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital in Pitampura in New Delhi on Wednesday. The hospital is run by Delhi Government, whose CM and Health Minister keep busy in getting their photos published in advertisements financed by public money.

Timely warnings by the mother of the girl were not taken seriously by the staff. Even after they rushed to the scene, they did not try to save he girl, but were only busy in dowsing the fire. Lack of safety in appliances used in the hospitals has become a cause for a death.

Another death due to short circuit in phototherapy machine was caused in Shardaben General Hospital in Ahmedabad, where a three year old baby was being treated.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Is Prime Minister a customer?

I am an ordinary customer. No product or service provider bothers about me. I face un-scheduled, un-announced long power cuts. Due to these power cuts, I get no water. This spoils my day. The routine in my household goes haywire.

I wonder whether Prime Minister also faces these problems. Is he a customer like me and suffers like me? Or service providers consider serving him a privilege? Is Sonia Gandhi or any other VIP treated like an ordinary customer and made to suffer like me?

It is said that India is a democracy. It is also said that in a democracy all are equal. But it is not true in Indian democracy. Will a day come in Indian democracy, when Prime Minister will also suffer due to long power & water cuts like me?