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At present, a very sad, heart-wrenching and sensational news is coming out from Palamu district of Jharkhand, which has spread a wave of mourning in the entire area. While across the state, the holy festival of Karma Puja, the festival of unbreakable love between brother and sister and nature, was being celebrated with great enthusiasm and people were dancing to the tunes of traditional songs and chandeliers, on the other hand, in a village of Palamu, this great festival brought the biggest sorrow of life instead of happiness. On the auspicious occasion of Karma Puja, after immersion and traditional rituals, five youths who had come to take bath in Koyel River got caught in the strong current of deep water. In this horrific accident, four youths died tragically due to drowning in water, while no trace of the fifth youth has been found yet and the team of divers is continuously carrying out rescue operations in search of him. After this heart-wrenching incident, the family members of the deceased are crying and crying and even the stoves are not lit in the entire village. Through this article we will discuss in detail every aspect of this entire tragic incident and administrative relief operations.
How did this horrific accident happen in Koel river during the celebration of Karma Puja?
In the rural areas of Jharkhand and Bihar, the festival of Karma Puja is celebrated with great pomp and cultural enthusiasm. Youth and children participate enthusiastically in the traditional programs of this festival. Karma Puja was also in full swing in the respective area of Palamu district and local youth had reached the river ghats for immersion of Karma Dali or other rituals with traditional songs. After the completion of the ritual, some young men in enthusiasm went down to take bath in the cold water of Koel river to get rid of the heat and fatigue. They had no idea how fast the flow of water was in this part of the river and how deep it was inside. As soon as they entered the deep water, they could not control themselves and one by one they were swept away by the strong current. When his companions and the people present on the shore saw him drowning, they screamed, but by then it was too late.
Bodies of four youths recovered, rescue operation of divers continues in search of the fifth.
As soon as information about the incident was received, the local police station, top officials of the district administration and disaster management teams immediately reached the spot. A search was immediately started in the river with the help of local villagers and divers. After a lot of hard work and hours of rescue operation, the bodies of four youths were taken out from different parts of the river, seeing which the eyes of every person present on the spot became moist. However, no trace of the fifth youth has been found yet and the administration is continuously searching for him by deploying the National Disaster Response Force or local rescue teams. The turbidity and fast flow of the river water is becoming the biggest obstacle in the rescue work, yet the administration is hopeful that the missing youth will also be traced soon. The police have taken possession of the dead bodies and sent them to Sadar Hospital for post-mortem and further legal action is being taken.
Many demands were destroyed in one stroke and the only lamp of the families was extinguished.
This painful accident has left many laughing families with lifelong wounds that will never heal. The houses where till a few hours ago there was the echo of folk songs and the aroma of Karma Puja dishes, there is now silence of screams and mourning. The youth who lost their lives and are missing were bright and friendly members of their respective families, on whom the economic and social hopes of the entire family depended. The elders of the village say that they had never seen such a dark day in their life when such a huge tragedy had hit the entire village simultaneously on the day of a holy festival. Local public representatives, social workers and district administration officials met the victims’ families and consoled them and assured them of all possible compensation and financial assistance from the government.
Big questions of security and administrative negligence on river ghats during festivals
After this heart-wrenching incident, the question is once again being raised that when thousands of villagers and youth reach the banks of rivers and ponds during such big and traditional festivals, why are there no adequate security arrangements made by the district administration or local panchayats? There was neither any arrangement for barricading at that ghat of Koel river nor were any divers or police force deployed to deal with any emergency. If strict security arrangements had been made in time, perhaps these innocent lives could have been saved. This accident has forced both the administration and the general public to think about how important it is to exercise utmost caution while celebrating festivals near water sources, so that such tragic incidents can be prevented in future.