Laborer was driving sewage truck, accident happened at Bharat Talkies
Municipal Corporation vehicle damaged after the collision.
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Other work is being taken from daily wage labourers. Careless attitude of responsible officials. The worker got injured in the accident. Vehicle damaged.
Navdunia Representative, Bhopal. The negligence of the officer responsible of the Municipal Corporation’s sewage cell is such that heavy vehicles are also being driven by workers. Their example came to light in the Bharat Talkies area of the old city on Tuesday night when a heavy sewage truck hit another truck.
Later it was found that the sewage truck was being driven by a daily wage laborer instead of a skilled driver, whose name is said to be Amar. It is fortunate that when this accident happened, there was not much traffic at that time and there were less people around, due to which there was no loss of life. The laborer driving the sewage truck was injured, but is out of danger.
The shocking thing is that despite knowing about this accident, the responsible officials started covering it up instead of taking it seriously. When RK Trivedi, executive engineer of the sewage cell, was asked about this, he nonchalantly said that the laborer driving the vehicle also had a license.
Most of the employees in the cell are working for 25 days. After listening to this of the Executive Engineer, it would not be wrong to say that due to his negligence some day a major accident may occur. The daily wage worker who should be getting them to do the work of sewage cleaning, is getting them to do other work.
Trivedi has recently come on deputation
Let us tell you here that RK Trivedi has come to the Municipal Corporation on deputation from PHE. His original post in PHE was Deputy Engineer. Therefore, they have no experience in sewage work. Here the question arises that how a sub-engineer was made an executive engineer in the corporation. Whereas there are many officers in the corporation who are eligible for the post of Executive Engineer. Sources say that he assigns work to the employees as per his choice.
