Western bank of the Yamuna, Wazirdabad Bridge, 8 am: Parents of the 30 school children from the same school, who died a year ago after their bus plunged into the river barely 50 m from the banks, have gathered to pay homage to the children. The parents have vowed to return every year.

Days after the tragedy, Delhi's former chief minister Sahib Singh Verma had promised to widen the Wazirabad bridge and build a park on the western banks in memory of the children. The Wazirabad Pul Bus Durghatana Abhibhavak Sangh an organisation formed by the parents to fight for safer transport for school children had told Sahib Singh that the park would remind people of the tragedy. Verma had agreed.

A year later, the bridge is yet to be widened; even a stone has not been laid. And overloaded cyclerickshaws and autorickshaws still ferry children to their schools. Or chartered buses which transport children to a Chandni Chowk school early in the morning, and office-goers later in the day.

This morning, the sobbing relatives of the 30 children had put up a temporary memorial -- a board plastered with the photographs and the names of the children -- on the western bank of Yamuna. ``Rahul Gaur had died on his 13th birthday... Mayur Rathi, 9, was holding his cousin Yogesh's, 13, hand, till the current swept him away. Yogesh survived... Mrigyalini, 16, died that day, her elder brother unable to bear the grief, committed suicide few days later....'' A priest chanted hyms and helped the parents with rituals.

``Over the past one year,'' said Umesh Chand Sharma, who lost his seven-year-old son, ``the government has only made promises. How many have they kept?'' No teacher from the childrens' school visted the spot today. Neither did Sahib Singh Verma who had promised he would.