What are big people doing?
May 1, 2010
Rwail Sirmed
Dear Readers,
One of my friends wrote this horrible incident, which has rocked my nerves. I am horrified and scared for the people who work in these offices which provide us electricity etc. I did not know there are so many errors in the system. What bigger people do all the day in offices? Well I am 11 years old and my friend is 12 years old. And we can advice you big people to correct the system
Please read the following from my friend, Jannat Khokhar
Here is a terrible incident that happened today in front of my eyes. Let me share it with all of you.
Two people were electrocuted in F-10 markaz Islamabad this evening at 5:45 pm. There was some problem in the electric feeder or i dont know what to call it in english but in urdu we call in ‘Khamba’. So because of the problem a WAPDA man was up there of khamba trying to fix the problem. All of the sudden someone from the main system’s end ON the electricity and there he was hanging in front of our eyes.then within 5-10 mins there was countless number of people gathered at that vary place thinking about the way to get that person off the khamba. He was hanging there. Two volunteers climbed-up the khamba (at that time WAPDA again cut-off the electricity supply) they both were trying to get him off. That man was around 40, chubby man and there was no way they both can get him down.
Then what we saw one of the volunteers fell down straight to road in front of our eyes coz some one from WAPDA again switched on the electricity connection. He was I think dead there and then. 1st he was electrocuted and second he fell down from that highted khamba right down to floor. 3 ambulances came in 10 mins of that incident. They picked the fallen man and he was off to hospital.
Okei now we remain with one hanging WAPDA man who was trying to fix the problem and electrocuted. CDA didn’t send that stair in time or what ever we call it to reach to the top. It took CDA 50 mins to send that stair vehicle. How sad WAPDA.
Who is the weird person who turned the electricity ON ?? When it was time in F-10 for load-shedding. 5pm to 6pm is the load shedding time in F-10 markaz. There was no co-ordination between them that a man from their own department was at F-10 trying to fix the problem. He must be on Khamba that too all alone.
Now few points that should be taken into consideration:
1- Lack of co-ordination/system in Wapda
2- Why a single man was there to fix the problem? there should have been a team of 2-3 personal/workers/engineers there at that time to first analyze the problem, write it down, fix it, co-ordinate with the department etc etc
3- Why he climbed through Khamba on his own? Y there was no provided specific vehicle by WAPDA for that kind of work to take the man up to the khamba?
4- No trained workers there to go for a sensitive task like fixing the main electricity wires/connection. What i personally think they never-ever give them specific training and briefing according to the jobs. y?
5- There is no established SOP in wapda that when the problem arouse how to go about it, how to fix it.
6- Whenever we call WAPDA, tell me a single time when they pick the call and respond to concerned citizens.
7- What CDA is doing? Y there vehicle didt reach in time?
Other than everything what image that whole incident left to the citizens? Insecurity? Improper system? No protection? Fear? what it lead us to? …. ?? & not to forget the most important fact.This happened in Capital city of Pakistan in a very famous market place. What do u think about back-ward areas of Pakistan and the system there?
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Ketan |
May 1, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Very sad, indeed!
The value of human life is somehow inversely proportional to population density & directly proportional to per capita income in any country.
Recently in Delhi, a man died of radiation exposure from radon-60 carelessly disposed off by Delhi University’s Chemistry Department.
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Ketan |
May 1, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Sorry, *cobalt-60
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Ketan |
May 1, 2010 at 2:31 pm
“Proportional” is an expression to show relationship between two quantities/values.
E.g., when you take 100 mL of water & heat it, its temperature will keep on increasing as long as you keep the stove on. So, you can say that “the temperature of water is directly proportional to the time for which water is heated.” Please note, proportionality has been shown between time & rise in temperature. If you heat for more time, increase in temperature would be more. If you heat for less time, increase in temperature will be less. Such relations are known as direct because both time of heating & rise in temperature move in same direction.
Let’s take an opposite example, now. If there are 100 fishes in a pond, & there’s 1 g poison in it, & because of which 10 fishes die, then 90 would be left. If instead now 2 g is added, 55 fishes die (and 45 are left in the pond). If 3 g is added, 85 fishes die, & only 15 are left.
Now, see the relation between amount of poison and number of fishes surviving:
1 g –> 90
2 g –> 45
3 g –> 15
So, what you see is that as the amount of poison increases, the number of fishes left in the pond decreases. The amount of poison & number of surviving fishes move in opposite direction. We will say, “the number of surviving fishes is inversely proportional to the amount of poison in the pond.”
Of course, both these examples were too simple. As you’ll learn more maths & physics, you’ll understand that proportion could also be with squares or cubes of quantities (like distance or radius). Square of a number is when you multiply it with itself, e.g. 4 is square of 2, 9 is square of 3, etc. Cube is when you multiply a number twice with itself 2x2x2 = 8 (8 is a cube of 2); 27 is a cube of 3 (3x3x3).
Population density is the total number of people living in a country divided by its total area (in square kilometers). If population density is high, it means too many people will have to depend on limited farms, water, land to build factories on, coal to produce electricity from, etc. If all this would be less, then there would lesser food, lesser clothes to wear, fewer medicines to treat sick people. Then people will be unhappy. A lot of people will die because of starvation, illnesses, lack of medical facilities (as there would be less money & space to build hospitals & employ doctors)….
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Ketan |
May 1, 2010 at 2:36 pm
…Because if so many people die or are about to die (because of diseases), everyone around starts getting used to death & disease.
Also, unhappy people are usually angry & frustrated. They are more hateful. Unhappy people hate each other, & find excuses to fight & harm each other.
They do not feel as much sad or shocked if someone dies.
So, if you see all countries that have small population density (like Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, etc.) have rich people. They can easily afford food, electricity, medicines, etc.. So, fewer people die amongst themselves (hence, their average lifespans are longer), therefore, they’re much more shocked & hurt if someone dies because of avoidable causes. They’re on the whole more careful in matters of life & health.
Per capita income is the total money earned by a country divided by total number of people present. So, greater the per capita income, ‘richer’ is the country, & lesser the per capita income, ‘poorer’ is the country. My guess, is ‘caput’ in Latin means ‘head’, so possibly, ‘per capita’ would translate as ‘per head’.
That’s why I had initially said that: “The value of human life is somehow inversely proportional to population density & directly proportional to per capita income in any country.”
Cobalt is a metal just like iron or magnesium. Cobalt-60 is a form of cobalt, which emits invisible radiation that can pass through the cells of the human body & damage them. So, it is to be handled very carefully. If someone physically comes close to cobalt-60 without protection, many of their body cells will be damaged & the person can die. Cobalt-60 is to be disposed by covering it in think layer of cement & lead (another metal) so that the radiation cannot pass through it. And then either it is thrown away in sea (so that it sinks to bottom) or a deep pit is dug in the ground and thrown in there. But instead of all this the Chemistry department sold cobalt-60 along with furniture, which was bought by an ignorant shopkeeper & 6 people had been hospitalized, and one person has already died. All the people who were exposed to it will suffer from some form of blood cancer or other organ’s cancer & die in 10 to 15 years.