Stampede deaths - the second time at this Year's Kumbh Mela

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I am reminded of Terminator 2 or was it Terminator 3 - the kid teaches the machine where to find the car keys and asks ..are we learning yet... India has seen many stampede deaths over the last decade. You could easily say it is because of our population. But there is more to it. I remember the 2017, September 29th case at Elphinstone bridge. 23 dead. What should the leaders have done? Immediately start repairing all the over bridges. What did they do? La La La La put Statue of Unity the tallest copper building up there...in October 2018. That is how much they value our Indian lives. But if another person hurts us, I will be shouting on root tops, till I get some compensation, and then the issue will be let to die out. We are managing with infrastructure that Britishers built. Without repairing and upkeep. We need the money for other things. Right? 30 odd years ago, when I used to go to Mumbai for exams, I used to see the gaps in the flooring of the over bridge. I used to think...what if my foot got into this...but there is heavy traffic on the bridge everyday. So it would be better to build another and demolish this...but politicos prefer to lose some lives before acting. Then they can blame the past governments. For some reason there are more stampede episodes since 2014 than there were in 60 odd years since independence! You would think this government would take lessons from the 2013 Prayag Kumbh Mela episode. But that did not happen! I would simply tell companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi, come on fill some ganges water in these small bottles. And sell. Let people use a lid full in a bucket full of water. That should be equal to a bath in Ganga river. Half the members who traveled to the site, would think traveling in those crowded trains is not worth the effort. But politicos do not seem to want to solve the issue.