As tragedies involving passenger and tourist boats continue to strike the State in regular intervals, safety of boat passengers still takes a back seat along the State’s water routes with the successive governments turning a blind eye towards recommendations put forth by the expert committees in this regard.
For instance, most of the recommendations by a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) led by K. Narayana Kurup, which had probed the Kumarakom boat accident of July 2002, are gathering dust.
The report submitted about eight months after the accident, had found that poor condition of the boat, overloading and negligent conduct of the crew as the factors causing the accident.
