Posted on 03/31/2016 8:43:43 PM PDT by Ray76
Indian engineering, Indian inspectors, and Indian labor. What could possibly go wrong?
uh huh... And the India people are said to be superior in intelligence. Of course they were probably using faulty construction and shoddy materials but hey, at least they were saving money for the India upper class to spend on themselves.
Just go to yahoo and type in “indian electrical nightmare” and view the images.
23 dead. 90 rescued.
Too late now but they should have blocked access while the construction was going on.
This has been going on for decades and decades and nothing ever changes.
It's like watching an Indian "Perils of Pauline" 1900's film serial that never ends.
If ever a country had a jinx on it, it's India.
Leni
If only they had been building it for cows instead of people, this would never have been allowed to happen.
I was surprised to learn that Kolkata is the city formerly known as Calcutta.
Many of those guys cut their teeth on freeway projects here in the US before taking the experience back to India...
Their rail fatality rate is about twice the US rate. Not bad for being behind the technological curve of us and having close to a billion people.
The pictures I saw of the collapse were depressing - not because of the wreckage but because of the filthy ricketty buildings around the wreckage and the mass of humanity standing around like seemingly every picture I see of India. Overcrowding, filth and squalor. They may be nice people but, OMG, how do they live that way?
Is that an elevated street or highway to the left or is it some sort of roof? Why is it strangely curved even a few blocks away? What is all that stuff on it? For an elevated highway it seems crazily close to the buildings.
I think it’s an elevated road.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1151118/jsp/calcutta/story_53668.jsp#.Vv4U8hkzfAt
The roads mentioned in the article are shown on this map
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=22.58612,88.35896&z=17&t=M&marker0=22.57265%2C88.36389%2CKolkata%20india
Likewise.
To think this hellhole of a country holds a lot of IT infrastructure. What an absolute mess and an absolute disaster.
Prayers for those poor people. If it isn’t the weather it’s an earthquake or something like this. They can’t seem to get a break.
I didn’t know Calcutta is now Kolkata.
I wonder how much money the government wasted changing signs, stationery, whatever for the name change.
This is an interesting article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jul/22/suzannegoldenberg
Apparently almost no-one lived in the city before the British occupied the area—so the attempt to deny the city’s imperial roots is to deny its real history.
In short—political correctness run amok.
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