The holiday standstill

How could there be a slack in hospital services, especially in the emergency ward, even when most people are celebrating a major festival? The same is true about complaints relating to utility services which go unheeded. The stop-gap arrangements for providing the services seem to exist only on paper. As if to emphasise the point, people in trouble can only hope to get some service on payment of a hefty amount in "bakshis" if, of course, they were lucky enough to find out the right men when most government service outfits looked like abandoned houses.

We seem to have forgotten that certain things must be in place at all times. The government should think in terms of introducing better and reliable standby arrangements to meet emergency situations during holidays.

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The problem of no-work mentality during holidays may turn acute in important places like airports, railway stations and river terminals. People do approach these places during holidays and their lives become miserable if they don't get the needed services. This is an issue that cannot be trifled with any more than we already have.

We cannot think of living in isolation from the dynamics of the modern world even for a short spell. We have to keep things functional in important areas like most of the countries do even on major holidays, to be part and parcel of the real-time world. If we want to be part of the global work culture, we have to basically clean up the dross in our work ethics.