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On 31 March 2016, part of the underconstruction Vivekananda flyover in the Girish Park neighbourhood of Kolkata, collapsed.

On 31 March 2016, part of the underconstruction Vivekananda flyover in the Girish Park neighbourhood of Kolkata, collapsed. Twenty-seven people were dead and more than 80 were injured in the incident as reported in public. The 2013 Mumbai building accident occurred on 27 September 2013 when a fivestoried building collapsed in the Mazagaon area of Mumbai city in Maharashtra, a state in India. At least 61 people died and 32 others were injured in the disaster. The devastating fire at 'Make in India' event in Mumbai on February 14was apparently caused due 'electrical short circuit'.

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is knowledge not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge” - Bahroz Hassan

These are some of the accidents that only happened in India while the rest are still being listed across the world. All these accidents points to many factors like lack of proper planning, delays, lacunae in design and bad tendering, corruption but all in all these factors point in only one direction scale of knowledge‟. The scale of knowledge has become the most important but conflicting point for the young minds to ponder upon while the educational institutions promise to enhance their thinking skills so that they could make the world a better nation. A child acquires knowledge uncertain of its underlying principles, adolescents ignore all the troubling questions that come to their minds and mixes all the concepts they have gathered so far making it work successfully somehow while adults re-constructs the concepts they have made during adolescence and work on it until some inevitable question arises.

And all these inevitable questions only lead to more problems for them. All these happened not because of ignorance but because of their pretence of having knowledge as the human mind is always at discomfort with uncertainty. One must understand the value of the knowledge he is struggling for, for whom and what will be the consequences depending upon the quality of knowledge one has achieved A famous Sanskrit verse says that an educated person is honoured everywhere.

The importance of a knowledgeable person is immense. Wherever he goes he is offered a place of reverence, a scat of authority, and he commands the hearing of everyone present. The power of knowledge leads him such distinction. It is the knowledge that has equipped man with the limitless power with which man dominates over all beings who are physically much stronger than him. Knowledge has indeed helped him to conquer the nature and this conquest has prompted human progress and civilization throughoutthe era.

But we all are subject to an illusion of knowledge bias when we think we know more than we actually do. This, combined with the overconfidence bias, can make us think that our analysis is more accurate than what can be inferred from the information we have. One human tendency to deal with uncertainty is to collect as much information as possible. This tendency exacerbates the illusion of knowledgebias because as we collect more information, we tend to think we have better information and we know better than we otherwise would have had we not collected much information.