ahmedabad videos shot by visitors at kankaria lakefront of sundays horrific accident where a pendulum amusement ride crashed killing two and injuring 29 had elicited shock and indignation in the midst of the blame game that followed authorities on tuesday admitted that in gujarat there is no law governing amusement rides or parks permanent or temporary thronged by thousands during melas in small towns and villages and at theme parks and water parks in big citiesin cities amusement park operators follow a ritual of procuring annual licences issued by the police which is based on an safety certification issued once annually by roads and buildings department while in the interim period the operator is expected to engage an engineer at their own cost to audit their own rides and submit monthly safety reports to the rb department the result of this process is the disaster witnessed on sundayin ahmedabad alone between 2012 and 2019 there have been seven major accidents at melas or temporary fairs including deaths caused due to electrocution fall and injuries to children from broken parts of major ridesamc is not responsible for the kankaria accident we have only provided the space to the operator under a ppp agreement the safety inspections and certifications are the responsibility of the roads and building department and the operator providing the periodic audit reports said mayor bijal patel while addressing the mediaa senior urban development official told toi that in many cities municipal corporations and few nagarpalikas have entered into ppp agreements with amusement parks including sharing their profits or ticket costs and yet there is no composite regulation or body of experts to govern these amusement or water parks he also pointed out that the bureau of indian standards bis has a set of code of recommended practice for amusement rides safety which have been strictly implemented in many states including tamil nadu maharashtra and karnataka the official said