Security Thrown To The Winds

The hopelessly sorry state of security at the Indian Museum as also in Shantiniketan and the Asiatic Society are direct fall-outs of the glaring lack of 'work culture' going hand in hand with red-tapism in West Bengal. The soothing security of government jobs seems to have drugged the personnel into a utopian lethargy, where fire safety measures recommended in 1992 take a dozen years to get implemented. All doors are open to theft and smuggling of the neglected valuables from the prospective high-security storage and display zones at government sites. This security system is virtually without loopholes, for the simple reason that it is next to being non-existent. Where corruption reigns supreme and callousness rules the roost, what more can be expected?