Report and pic by Viju for  Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore

Mangalore, Jan 14: The society has become insensitive towards human tragedy, said Mangalore University, Arts faculty dean Prof Surendra Rao.

Speaking after inaugurating the annual seminar on social concerns in addressing disaster, organised by Dr M V Shetty College of Social Work at the college auditorium here on Friday, he said that the insensitivity toward sufferings is the result of constant bombarding of information and instances of disaster on a daily basis. "We hear it and we see it and hundreds dying has become a matter of statistics," he said adding that people have lost the ability to be sensitive towards disasters.

Rao further said that in the regime of money, human conscience is still alive and this is evident in the international aid generated during natural calamities. However institutionalized corruption has prevented aid to reach to those who really need it, Rao commented.

Additional district magistrate A G Bhat who was the chief guest of the occasion, said that the DK district has been in the process of preparing a comprehensive disaster management plan for the district in which the norms for construction of buildings will be revised.