THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, September 14: Viscera of the two candidates, who died during the physical test for an excise constable’s job, has been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Ranchi.
A police officer told this correspondent, “Viscera has been sent for forensic examination in Ranchi days ago.”
Need for an inquiry committee
However, the state government has so far not set up any inquiry committee to go into the causes of more than a dozen deaths of the candidates.
There is every expediency to set up an inquiry committee to find out how it happened or why it happened or if could it have been averted by tough measures like postponing it till the inquiry committee comes out with its findings.
Was there any gross management on the side of the administration or did the fault or folly lie to the candidates only? Or if it’s both sides to be blamed.
Concerns over test conditions and preparation
It is said the candidates were not physically and mentally tuned for such a 10 km race in one hour for boys and 5 km in 40 minutes for girls.
Here there is a question. Was enough time given to prospective candidates for the preparation for it?
Short time and big goals for employment took a toll on young lives.
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There is far more a rigorous and arduous test for the services in the Army but no state in India has ever been shocked like this as Jharkhand in the excise constables recruitment test marred by fatalities. Every shock has an explanation which the Nation wants to know.
Sources said there is no room left now for any speculation or conjecture like deaths, may be due to use of performance enhancer drugs, ill effects of post Covid etc.
It’s time now to reach the hard bottom as to whether after a couple of deaths in the beginning this massive exercise to recruit excise constables ought to have been reviewed or threadbare analysed or put off for not three days but for weeks or till there was gathered circumstantial or material evidences going against it. What went wrong with this race has not yet been officially diagnosed and pronounced.
Political compulsions or better say electoral gains were set forward more than to help save the lives of the young jobless youths who died such a miserable death.
Issues with medical and administrative management
Questions on the management of the show are too many and all the questions have one commonness that inept management was most evident at the selection sites. There were 7 sites fixed across the state.
Was there any coordination between the police administration and the civil administration?
Officials vouch it was wanting. The level of coordination that is desired and expected in such a mass-scale physical test was sadly missing.
Again, when there occurred the first bout of illness at the physical test, the medical backup was meagre.
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Junior residents and senior residents were sent to deal with the crisis who had not the least of the experience and expertise in handling such a serious emergency.
A government doctor confided that there was a time when the hospital ran dry of the junior and senior residents.
Another doctor requesting anonymity said the unconscious candidates were just ‘left on the floor’ of the hospital and there used to be no one around to tell what happened to the guy who so was lying unconscious.
An unconscious man does not narrate his woes. Here it happened exactly.
Need for prompt investigation and public disclosure
Viscera has been sent to Ranchi. Will its examination and report take the same time as it used to take in other cases like 3 to 6 months?
Families which have lost their dearest ones have a right to know at the earliest as to what happened to the guys who ran to die.
The families of the deceased want accountability for deaths to be fixed and penal action against officials found erring on any count.
Their contention is that race fatalities are not accidental if more than a dozen lives are so lost.
There must be reasons or causes which should be probed, analyzed and brought to the public domain.
Wherever such deaths have occurred, the respective police stations have done one thing in common – lodging a UD case.
Bereaved families cry and cry saying it’s not a UD case but a CD (calamitous death) case where the calamity has been engineered with faulty design and erroneous construction of the events.
