WHY THERE IS A REQUIREMENT OF NON RUSTING BARRIERS ON CANAL AND WATER WAYS

 WHY THERE IS A REQUIREMENT OF NON RUSTING BARRIERS ON CANAL AND WATER WAYS ?

 As of today debate is raging on the molasses polluting the river waters there is another source of water pollution that has been silently polluting our canals and waterways sins the advent of canal systems for irrigation. The canal and water ways are a major  water sources of drinking as well as  for agriculture  and for them to remain non polluted is a major issue .  In about two years from now three major cities of Ludhiana, Amritsar and Patiala will start receiving surface drinking water from the various canals adjacent to them as part of World and Asian Development Bank projects. The major sources of this pollution are raw sewerage, untreated industrial wastage, animal carcasses and human sourced religious waste and human bodies. The major concern here is of stopping the flowing off human corpses and animal carcasses to tail end distributaries. The further focus is that to stop the human corpses being carried away by water current from the area of their disposal by criminals, falling into canals, suicides etc.

The non rusting barriers will be installed to stop the human corpses away by water current as well as pushed away by persons deployed by various police station in charges beyond their area of jurisdiction so that they don’t have to take possession of the body and do necessary actions required  when a  human body is found. The following benefits will accrue when these non rusting barriers are erected.

1)      The human body comes into a canal due to the following plausible causes

·             A person commits suicides

·             A person accidentally falls into the canal

·             A person’s vehicle falls into the canal and the bodies get swept away.

·             A person is murdered and immediately his body is disposed off in the canal.

·             A person is murdered somewhere else at a distance and then brought  from the scene of crime and disposed of in the canal/waterway to avoid detection and motive of crime as well as type of method used to kill.

2)   The non rusting barriers will result in the following benefits

·             The persons parents/dependents/relatives will be able to trace the body earliest and do the last rites.

·             The police will be able to record the scene of crime adjacent or upstream of the barrier rather than when it crosses half of Punjab or many police and  many district boundaries.

·             The body will still carry marks of injuries if there, viscera will be examineable as compared to now when the unclaimed bodies are cremated by socially helpful NGO’s as unclaimed bodies whose identities are established with help of photos , clothes and belongings much later.

·             This will help police establishing the type of death by drowning or other means before drowning. As the  postmortems  are the only means to establish the circumstances leading to death can be conducted on these bodies which are intact and available in a better shape as compared to totally putrefied or ashes form . These actually  help the criminals get away with crimes go undetected as bodies postmortem does not happen  as they are cremated as unclaimed bodies by social organizations.

·             It will also help in establishing the identity of the body because further the body goes/travels by water from the area  where the person resided  it becomes  difficult for all concerned to establish the identity of the person.

·             It will give a major psychological satisfaction to parents/dependents of the deceased when they are able to receive a body and cremate it rather than receive an urn of ashes from a social body who cremated the unclaimed body as a social responsibility.

·             It will reduce the cases of blind murders, missing persons, unsolved cases of disappearance and cross district/state crimes.

·             It will help in making police more accountable to the crimes being committed in its area of responsibility and thus painting reasonable picture of their efficiency as well as effectiveness.

·             The barriers will help in also arresting the animal carcasses which putrefy  to become micro pieces and thus cause the pollution leading to a number of hazardous diseases in the persons consuming the  polluted drinking water.