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Resentment against hike in bus fare mounting in Bhopal

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NK SINGH Though a Govt. directive has frustrated the earlier efforts of the MPSRTC to increase the city bus fares by as much as 300 per cent, the public resent even the 25 per cent hike. It is "totally unjust, uncalled for and arbitrary", this is the consensus that has emerged from an opinion conducted by "Commoner" among a cross-section of politicians, public men, trade union leaders, and last but not least, the common bus travelling public. However, a section of the people held, that an average passenger would not grudge a slight pinche in his pocket provided the MPSRTC toned up its services. But far from being satisfactory, the MPSRTC-run city bus service in the capital is an endless tale of woe. Hours of long waiting, over-crowding people clinging to window panes frequent breakdowns, age-old fleet of buses, unimaginative routes and the attitude of passengers one can be patient only when he is sure to get into the next bus are some of the ills plaguing the city b...
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Vibha Mishra brought to Delhi

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NK SINGH

Ms Vibha Mishra, the stage actress who suffered serious burns in Bhopal, under controversial circumstances. Involving top theatre personality, B. V. Karanth, was on Saturday admitted to Safdarjung Hospital.

Ms Mishra, who sustained severe burns and who has developed serious complications, was brought to Delhi by a special Madhya Pradesh Government aircraft on Saturday.

Doctors who attended to her at Safdarjung Hospital described her condition as serious. However, they were making all efforts to save her life.

Medical experts, however, wondered whether it was wise to transport a burns patient in such a serious condition from Bhopal to Delhi. In such cases, the journey could lead to deterioration in the patient's condition. Doctors attending to Ms Mishra at Safdarjung Hospital refused to comment on this issue.

In an unprecedented gesture of generosity to a private citizen, the Madhya Pradesh Government provided the state plane for shifting the 27-year-old actress from Bhopal's Hamidia Hospital to the burns unit of Safdarjanj Hospital.

Besides her mother and a government doctor, Ms Mishra was accompanied in the plane by noted painter J. Swaminathan, the director of Bharat Bhawan's art museum and one of its life trustees.

It is learnt that the Chief Minister, Mr Motilal Vora, decided to provide the state aircraft to fly Ms Mishra following directions from New Delhi.

"I decided to shift her to Delhi following a recommendation made by the doctors treating her", he told ENS. The Chief Minister also called on Ms Mishra at the hospital, for the first time since she was admitted seven days ago, shortly before she was moved.

It is learnt that the local police were kept totally in the dark before Ms Mishra was shifted from Bhopal. They were handed over a letter written by the superintendent of Hamidia Hospital, Dr N. R. Bhandari, informing them of the decision shortly before she was moved from the hospital.

Indian Express 

May 31, 1986





 


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