Agartala, Aug 14, 2012 : Five dead bodies remain unidentified till date even though six days have passed since the tragic road mishap at Tangseng on Meghalaya-Tripura road in which an overloaded passenger bus plied by the private Sherowali Travels of Agartala fell into a deep roadside gorge.
Altogether 31 persons were killed in the tragic mishap and 15 more passengers sustained injuries, when the ill-fated Night-super Bus coming from Guwahati towards Agartala fell in the gorge in the early morning of August 8 last at Tangseng under Khliehriat police station of East Jayantia Hills Districts.
Soon after the accident a team of administrative officials led Abhishek Chandra, District Magistrate of Unakoti district including medical team rushed to spot and provided all logistic support to the victims and relatives of dead or injured passengers in the bus.
Chandra in his complete report on the aftermath of the tragic mishap filed to the state government pointed out several lapses which had led to the accident.
Sources said, Abhishek Chandra mentioning the lapses suggested several strict measures to curb such kind of fatal mishap in coming days.
Tripurainfo.com managed to access confidential report from state administration found that, Abhishek Chandra said, vehicle which was to carry 30 passengers had on board 56 persons and a helper with driver.
“Sherowali group it seems had put stools in middle for people to sit, which was a regular practice”, said Chandra adding that lack of proper checking by Transport department has made it a regular practice by bus operators.
“The driver was completely drunk and the accident which has taken place was his fault, driver was also examined by Unakoti DDRC and certified as drunk”, said report.
The DM suggested that the accused driver needs to be booked under murder charges and nothing less.
He suggested that the bus tickets when purchased should have complete address and details of the passenger. Chandra opined that if the transport corporation kept the details of address and names of the passengers in an application form while applying for tickets, this tragedy could be less painful and helpful in identifying the bodies which were badly mutilated.
“The biggest problem was that from the dead bodies none of the mobiles or wallets, chains, bags etc could be recovered. Local people robbed the dead and left no identification making our jobs even tougher”, said Chandra adding that this is unpardonable.
Recently, Meghalaya government has formed Khliehriat as a new district of the state, and after the accident the district administration was conspicuous by absence and officials from Tripura got virtually no support on the field.
“It is disheartening to note the fact that there is no DTO, no disaster cell and no one from the Meghalaya administration even bothered other than the District Collector, who along with undersigned took charge of the situation”, said Chandra.
“We could have got helicopter from Agartala with medical supplies. The delay by administration to bring seriously wounded to hospital caused death of 4 persons, the lives of whom could have been saved with timely action.
Finally Chandra suggested to improve the poor conditions of national highway because the particular area in Meghalaya was accident prone. Without improvement in road condition and infrastructure such accidents will keep on occurring, Chandra added in his report.
He also regrets that during emergency there is no inter-state coordination and nobody from national disaster management team turns up for help.
Altogether 31 persons were killed in the tragic mishap and 15 more passengers sustained injuries, when the ill-fated Night-super Bus coming from Guwahati towards Agartala fell in the gorge in the early morning of August 8 last at Tangseng under Khliehriat police station of East Jayantia Hills Districts.
Soon after the accident a team of administrative officials led Abhishek Chandra, District Magistrate of Unakoti district including medical team rushed to spot and provided all logistic support to the victims and relatives of dead or injured passengers in the bus.
Chandra in his complete report on the aftermath of the tragic mishap filed to the state government pointed out several lapses which had led to the accident.
Sources said, Abhishek Chandra mentioning the lapses suggested several strict measures to curb such kind of fatal mishap in coming days.
Tripurainfo.com managed to access confidential report from state administration found that, Abhishek Chandra said, vehicle which was to carry 30 passengers had on board 56 persons and a helper with driver.
“Sherowali group it seems had put stools in middle for people to sit, which was a regular practice”, said Chandra adding that lack of proper checking by Transport department has made it a regular practice by bus operators.
“The driver was completely drunk and the accident which has taken place was his fault, driver was also examined by Unakoti DDRC and certified as drunk”, said report.
The DM suggested that the accused driver needs to be booked under murder charges and nothing less.
He suggested that the bus tickets when purchased should have complete address and details of the passenger. Chandra opined that if the transport corporation kept the details of address and names of the passengers in an application form while applying for tickets, this tragedy could be less painful and helpful in identifying the bodies which were badly mutilated.
“The biggest problem was that from the dead bodies none of the mobiles or wallets, chains, bags etc could be recovered. Local people robbed the dead and left no identification making our jobs even tougher”, said Chandra adding that this is unpardonable.
Recently, Meghalaya government has formed Khliehriat as a new district of the state, and after the accident the district administration was conspicuous by absence and officials from Tripura got virtually no support on the field.
“It is disheartening to note the fact that there is no DTO, no disaster cell and no one from the Meghalaya administration even bothered other than the District Collector, who along with undersigned took charge of the situation”, said Chandra.
“We could have got helicopter from Agartala with medical supplies. The delay by administration to bring seriously wounded to hospital caused death of 4 persons, the lives of whom could have been saved with timely action.
Finally Chandra suggested to improve the poor conditions of national highway because the particular area in Meghalaya was accident prone. Without improvement in road condition and infrastructure such accidents will keep on occurring, Chandra added in his report.
He also regrets that during emergency there is no inter-state coordination and nobody from national disaster management team turns up for help.
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