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For Loved Ones
Dear Aggarwal uncle, aunty ji,
Meena Aggarwal, Yogita Aggarwal and other family members living
at 50/299, Vijaynagar, Naranpura (pin: 380013; phone: 079-475632),
I am greatly worried about your safety. Are you safe and sound?
If any of you or your friends happen to
read this message, please inform me immediately. Please, let me
know the kind of help you may require in your this hour of need
and distress.
I may be contacted at the following number/address:
Pager: 020-9628510353
Phone 020-6051820, 020-6050793 (office), 020-7441256 (pp)
E-mail: shersingh_p@yahoo.com,
shersinghparmar@popmail.com
Sher Singh Parmar,
Central Excise Inspector,
P.R.O., Central Excise,
Pune
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Helpline for Gujarat
Victims from Bombay Stock Exchange
There is a helpline launched by Bombay Stock
Exchange on the Net. The details of families affected by the quake
are gathered from brokers in Gujarat. A form has been hosted on
the Intranet wherein the affected area residents can send messages
to their relatives around the world. BSE will inform the relatives
whose phone numbers are given.
This information can be viewed on a http://helpline.bseindia.com.
I request you to kindly publicise this link through your site.
Sampath Chakkarapani
London, UK
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New Ministry for
Disaster Management, An Absurd Idea
Such idea like setting up of a new ministry
for disaster management should be throttled at the very beginning.
A new ministry means just addition of more expenses. The end result
would be just an ineffective commission with recommendations and
no action.
The need of the hour is to improve administrative
ability down the line to coordinate and converge available services
to the optimum. This can come by practice. Over years, the society
as such has pursued a single goal of diluting coordinating role
of district administration through collector. The result is that
at such time of crisis, there is no single pivot to coordinate and
take quick decisions.
Aruna Sharma
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Site for Locating
People Lost in the Disaster
We have put up a website: http://calamity.exlnc.com,
through which we provide means for people to locate near and dear
ones lost in the earthquake.
We would be grateful if you could list this
information and provide us information on persons who are looking
or have lost others in the melee, as reported to you.
Prasad Thergaonkar
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Are
Our Houses Safe?
The recent earthquake which
rocked the parts of Gujarat seems to have no, or little effect,
on us. The politicians mourned over the deaths of thousands of people
and we started collecting relief materials. It doesn't mean that
this was not required; it was the most needed thing.
What I'm saying is that we
have not taken any lessons from this disaster and the ones which
preceded it. Today, it happened in Gujarat; tomorrow it could happen
anywhere. We have not taken any step to ensure that the houses we
live in or the office buildings which houses our offices are safe
enough to withstand such quakes.
We should take lessons from the past and
see that our future is insured. The present practice is that the
buildings are passed by checking the drawings made by the architects.
The most important thing, which we all tend to ignore, is that it
is not the job of the architect to check the strength of the buildings.
It is the job of a structural engineer, and he has to be physically
present when the vital parts of the building are being constructed.
I suggest the concerned government authorities
impose stringent measures to ensure this. A structural engineer's
certificate and if possible maps along with other drawings should
be checked thoroughly before passing off any building as safe.
Sachit Jain
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