Mumbai Incident - Afterthought

Last week was a change from the normal corporate, product management and technology handling routine jobs. Tried to keep the normal work routine and meetings but the air was more than serious with the events unfolding in the city.

I was shocked to see how the Mumbai blasts and hostage event was executed and how it was handled by the authorities. There was an evident lack of concerted effort to tackle the various aspects of incidents.

Being the Mumbai resident i saw the whole event unfold and bought to an closure but it leaves a unhappy taste to see the lack of a planned response to such events.

I hope the organizations and institution holding power seats and enjoying at public expense, make sure such incidents do not happen again rather than paying the mere lip service and pushing the file like they did all the previous events (train bomb blasts, floods, serial bomb blasts etc.). Not only such steps should be taken and media fill their pages and airtime with such stories, but public need to be made aware of emergency management aspects of the city life.

(NOTE: I work in the multi floor building in Mumbai, and there was never a fire drill in the last two years. also most of the people i sure do not know how to use the first aid and kit, how to operate the fire extinguisher and where are the fire hoses)

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