Atleast 42 dead in an India building collapse

[Jersey #10]

http://news.msn.com/world/search-grows-bleak-in-india-building-collapse/

The death toll climbed to at least 42 in the collapse of an apartment building in Mumbai, and rescuers are no longer detecting signs of life inside. MUMBAI, India — Frantic relatives kept up a vigil Saturday at the site of a collapsed apartment building that killed at least 42 people in India's financial capital of Mumbai, as the search for around a dozen people missing in the rubble grew bleak. Rescuers found just one person alive during the day. More...

[SLICKR392]

RIP. This so effing scary.

[zumi]

India is full of rubbish illeterate engineers

[SLICKR392]

India is full of rubbish illeterate engineers

And there are plenty of them. Although, they were warned about how fragile the building was.

[KeyboardWarrior]

Sad accident. RIP to the Souls.

[Clarke]

India is full of rubbish illeterate engineers

The problem is more likely to do with sidelining engineering inputs for the sake of additional profits. Third building collapse in the city in six months. The BMC must be run by the gandus.

[zumi]

The problem is more likely to do with sidelining engineering inputs for the sake of additional profits. Third building collapse in the city in six months. The BMC must be run by the gandus.

I have full respect for engineers and this is no potshot at Indian engineers. But the quality of engineers I have come across, especially Civil Engineers, is shockingly poor and scary. Just the lack of general/basic engineering concepts is appalling. Everyone knows there is something fundamentally wrong with our tertiary education system, but we continue churning out garbage hoping to develop with fingers crossed.

[Clarke]

^ Well I'm not entirely denying what you said, just thinking if that would be the primary cause of the regular collapses.