While a tragedy, let's keep things in perspective. It's India. A nation that can't collectively find its ass with both hands no matter HOW much money you throw at a problem. Were the Swiss or German fire system not maintained? Then I'd take a look at 'austerity." But India scores a big zero in competence on most things that are considered important but not urgent.
All over think-tanks, right wing ideologues precisely deny environmental limits because they show that free-marketeering is not good governance. It's going to take a lot more (than) moral framing to crack that nut.
So much of what passes for "infrastructure" in India and ex-colonial Africa is the rotted remains of what the English built during the imperial years. Add in Malthusian factors and you've got a mess of intractable proportions. Just waiting for some Michael Crichton/Twelve Monkeys virus to hit there, will make the Ebola/SARS/Zika thing look like the sniffles.