"Good Governance or Gross Negligence?"

Unfit Buses on Roads Reflect a Fatal Governance Failure

Despite repeated tragedies, unfit and unsafe buses continue to ply city roads, raising alarming questions about the accountability of transport authorities. This systemic oversight—what some now call a "good governance model of negligence"—is costing lives and exposing deep flaws in regulation, enforcement, and political will.

Neither fitness nor validity, registration also expired, yet when the bus running like death in front of police, transport and all administrative systems, caused an accident at some distance from the ministry and Chief Minister's residence in the capital, then the government woke up and as usual issued heavy instructions.

On Monday, an unfit bus whose brakes failed in Bhopal crushed many innocent people. It took the life of young doctor Ayesha, who was to get married in a few days. There is mourning in the house amidst the wedding preparations.

A fire breaks out in the hospital, a firecracker factory explosion takes the lives of innocent people, Hindu girls become victims of love jihad, they are raped or those who follow the law by stopping at the red signal get killed by the vehicles running like death on the roads.

In any such incident due to administrative negligence, the government repeats the good governance model and gives such heavy instructions as if everything will improve from the next day and such incidents will never be repeated. But the colour of the good governance model of negligence has taken over the administration in such a way that it does not fade, let alone fade.

Such instructions may be discussed for a while, but they never come out of the papers. This is the reason why such accidents never stop. Every child in the state knows how the police and transport workers, who are experts in catching drivers on the roads in the name of checking, did not notice this bus. Who knows how many such buses are still running like death on the basis of administrative negligence, it is not possible to even count them.

The big question is whether the instructions given for taking action against such vehicles will be implemented on the ground. Doubts and questions on the implementation of such instructions are justified because even during the Prayagraj Maha Kumbh this year, more than 550 accidents took place from Jabalpur to the border of Uttar Pradesh, in which 192 people died untimely deaths.