Thiruvananthapuram, Sunday, January 16, 2011: The Sabarimala stampede has sparked criticism of Kerala government and the Temple Board for alleged failure to act on recommendations of the panel, which probed a similar tragedy in 1999, to develop alternative routes to the hill shrine to check recurring mishaps.
Opposition parties and Hindu outfits today alleged that the Pullumedu disaster which claimed 102 lives could have been avoided if the report of the judicial probe into the 1999 tragedy had been implemented in right earnest.
On January 14, 1999, 52 pilgrims, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, were killed in a stampede at Pampa, the river-bank base camp on the foothills of Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple.
Justice Chandrasekhara Menon, who probed the tragedy, in his report had suggested the need to provide basic amenities on the Pullumedu route through which a large number of pilgrims from Tamil Nadu travel.
(News Agency)
- By KOL News , Written on January 16, 2011
Now it is time to appoint another commission to enquire the reason for the tragedy and submit report to the government, but just to ignore the commission’s findings and not to implement the suggestions and wait for the next tragedy to happen to repeat the same exercise!