CWG: Who gets benefited?
Posted : July 26, 2010 at 6:47 pm [IST]
As the media reports, India has spent around Rs 30,000 crores on CWG. It may be wrong. But a question haunts me. How many new contractors or middle men would have become crorepatis in this construction/preparation process of the CWG for few days in New Delhi?
I got this question after reading a strange news report from Bihar: ‘In Bihar, women give birth to 5 children in 2 months‘.
And it is not only Bihar, perhaps everywhere in India, most of the persons in government jobs of responsibility goes to sleep planning about how and how much can he extort next day. Otherwise how could the chief of Medical Council of India or AICTE or even a departmental head of a government hospital enmasses so much money?
Common persons rather voters have digested corruption as an accepted priviledge of the position of a person?
Prime Minister as his duty talks about the ills of corruption, but hardly does anything significantly effective to eliminate it even when it comes so visibly in media. Let us consider the case of PDS for the poor. It started with Rajiv Gandhi, but in all these years nothing much has changed. Now everyone is pinning hope on Nandan Nilakani to solve the problem with his ADHAAR. Will the bureaucracy allow him to get that really going?
Infamous Modi of Gujarat talks of corruption in MGREGA I don’t know why he can’t get rid of it at least in his own state. How far Modi’s own ministers and officers are clean?
One can just feel bad about it. It seems Indians will have to live with it for many more years perhaps till ‘mahapralaya’.
But I still have another question. Should inaction not be considered as corruption? How can a prime minister or food minister justify continuing to be in his office if day in and day out every Indian keeps on seeing thousands of tons of wheat rotting in open in a poor and hungry country as India on every news channel?
But this is Incredible India. Everything is possible. It’s just disgusting.
However, we still have some hopes and we all can read about the thirty five great but quiet revolutionaries.
- Indra
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