Ammonium Nitrate and Delhi Blasts
I do not understand the uncalled for confidence that, we, by issue of order or making a severe law can make some event stop. Somehow our respected IAS and many intellectuals think that it is lack of a law that allows bad things to happen. Typically delay in issue of rules is being pointed out for some one to keep a watch on ammonium nitrate. The moment it is declared as an explosive...what other rules one needs to act? The rules applicable to explosives all of us know. They are there. Why again wait for issue of fresh rules A District Collector does not need any new rules specially for Ammonium Nitrate because it is an explosive of a particular class under the explosive act. All the existing rules kick in. The district collectors and the explosive inspectors merely give this kind of excuse to avoid accountability. Even carriage by ship in to Vizag in huge quantities becomes a case of violating the ACt, under the existing Act and rules available for explosives mutatis mutandis for Ammo...