Bhopal: Boating at Upper Lake poses threat to visitors lives

Bhopal: Authorities seem to be happy to overlook the risk of posed using unregulated boating to the lives of those who avail boating facilities at Upper Lake. District administration, Madhya Pradesh Tourism improvement Corporation (MPTDC), Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) pass the buck on each other to ensure safety measures in boating at Upper Lake are worried.

Private boat operators do not have any registration numbers, described seating ability, and display the least problem about protection measures. National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) has empowered the country authorities to enforce and implement secure boating in waterways or water bodies through district management and Panchayat.

NDMP recommends that it be a good practice to keep mandatory provisions for boats to have registered with the local statutory frame of the involved State. The Registration quantity must be prominently marked at the ship in a specific vicinity as decided through the authority.

The availability of proper infrastructures at each wharf (Jetty) for embarkation and disembarkation are similarly crucial for secure booting. It needs to be the responsibility of local government to offer ok facilities. Every boat must have authorized lifestyles saving equipment enough for the variety of folks that may be carried. Lifesaving appliances such as existence jackets, lifestyles buoy, etc. Must be in boats.