Summary:
Both these tragedies are proving that we have still not recognised that Engineers Act, or rather lack of it is killing people. In India, we have not enacted Engineers Act crucial for regulating the professionals serving as engineers. As the Engineers Act debate did rage in past when a greater tragedy in form of 2001 earthquake had hit our state, one of the policy fallout's of it was Gujarat Professional Civil Engineers Act, 2006 enacted at state level as an attempt to fill the vacuum created by lack of a national act. As I had seen the fate of such an overreach in the case of Gas Act that our state had ambitiously enacted, I had always looked at our local Engineers Act as one more act of bravery leading us nowhere, and also counter-productive to the ultimate objective of having a national Engineers Act. The first and immediate requirement is to change the act from "Civil Engineers Act" to "Engineers Act" and cover all other branches of engineering therein..