Enact 'Fire Safety Act': Activist approaches SHRC
Newspoint Bureau, 05/March/2013
Jammu Tawi: Deepak Sharma, a Jammu based Human rights activist has approached J&K State Human Rights Commission seeking its direction to the state government for enacting 'Fire Safety Act' in the state. The activist in the complaint filed to the human rights panel, has submitted that the State Government is ignoring the safety of its citizens from fire accidents in the absence of 'Fire Safety Act' in the state and prayed to the State Human Rights Commission to issue appropriate directions to the State Government to enact 'Fire Safety Act' at the earliest to protect the fundamental right of 'Right to Life' of innocent citizens of the state and to avoid any tragic fire accident. While appreciating the role of Fire and Emergency Services Department in saving the lives and properties of the people in case of fire accidents, the activist alleged that though there exists Fire and Emergency Services Department in the state but in the absence of any 'Fire Safety Act', the department remained not more than a recommendatory body and hence not able to take any action in case of non compliance of the recommendations.
The department in one of its communication to the activist has shown its helplessness to take strict action against the defaulters and admits that since there is no stringent enforcement as on date in absence of Fire Act, as such the department only issues the recommendations for adopting fire safety measures but these recommendations are not taken seriously by the concerned and also since they are not vested with the power to inspect whether the recommendations has been complied or not , most of the times the recommendations remains only on papers.
http://www.jknewspoint.com/newsdet.aspx?q=9210Also Published in JK Newspoint, The Northlines and others on 05/March/2013
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