In my opinion (I might be wrong), LPG cylinders in India are generally made according to standard and are somewhat safe, but their maintenance is flawed and almost non-existent.
Being a Civil Engineer who left the field due to extreme corruption, malpractices, human exploitation, and whatnot, I can confidently say that the infrastructure industry of this country is rotten to the core. Every contractor, whether small or a big player, needs to be stripped of their license, and a new system should take its place.
Licenses should only be granted to those who can follow rules and maintain standards.
Civil engineering courses need to be overhauled; the current ones create inept engineers.
Just one example:
A couple of my civil engineering batchmates were employed by a contractor who took a small project of laying a sewer line under the
Swachh Ganga Abhiyan in a small village in UP along the bank of the Ganga river.
They were the only engineers in the company.
My batchmates were freshers, and the company was new (it was created solely for looting money) and therefore had no knowledge or experience in designing and laying sewer lines.
The company had to construct almost 150 manholes and sewer lines across that small village, and that line had to be connected to a major sewer line so that the flow of untreated sewage would be directed to a treatment plant.
Due to zero experience, planning, and extreme greed and corruption, they laid the sewer only in a small portion of that village with around 20 manholes. Some homes were flooded with sewage because the slope of the sewer line was not proper.
A government engineer who came to inspect was served
chai pani, after which the department released approximately 70-75% of their money! The remaining amount was kept as security, just in case the work done by the company was not up to standard or might require some repairs.
But that company had already made enough money, so they didn't really care about that remaining amount, and then they vanished.
That company and the employment of my batchmates only lasted a few months.
Guess what—one of my batchmates started taking government contracts after that, and the first contract he took was for laying sewer lines!
After completing my B.Tech, I worked in a small construction company in Gurgaon as a junior site engineer.
I had a mental and emotional breakdown in just two months because of the extreme work hours, malpractices,
just three holidays a month (yes, just three, and no Sundays), and that too, I had to take permission from the company. If some major work was going on at the site, they wouldn't grant those holidays, etc.
All the batchmates who got into the construction field faced similar problems, and 90%, including myself, quit the field.
The infrastructure of this country is built upon the
BLOOD of poor, exploited people.
Enough of my rant. I should go to sleep now
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