MALLI_528
Beginner
Bro pls go through the article.ur talking about rafale deal right?. https://eurasiantimes.com/decoded-w...-a-multi-billion-deal-to-us-fighter-jets/?amp
Where is the money going?
- Thread starter Ramadhir Singh
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This.
The entire city of Bangalore has been dug up since 2 years to the point where most areas resemble a warzone thanks to the smart city project, thankfully some of the work is coming to an end.
I have seen the workers dig/fix/fill the same spots in some places at least a dozen times. I have lived in Pune and Mumbai and am well aware of corruption in both the BMC & PMC but Bangalore is in a league of its own.
The municipality (BBMP), water board (BWSSB), electricity distro (BESCOM) are the most incompetent and corrupt and have zero inter-departmental co-ordination, the only person who benefits is the guy renting out those JCB's, heck they should just go all out and rename the city JCBnagar.
This was the most recent example of how bad it really is.
Airport metro to undo all the hard and costly work of white-topping ORR
In utter disbelief and dismay, road users are wondering aloud with collective angstwww.deccanherald.com
I echo this sentiment. I mean - one could be forgiven to think that Bangalore has just been through WW2!
They have dug up just about every road in the name of this so called "smart" city. The irony is that except for a few main roads, is nothing "smart" from the way in which water and underground electricity lines are being laid for the inner roads. It is the same old story i.e. the BBMP and BWSSB are sub-contracting to their favourite crony contractors in different areas.
On the contrary, I was appalled at the quality of workers who laid the new water lines in my area(Indiranagar). There was absolutely no supervision of the work, such a thin PVC line was laid to my and several other houses. They did not even sleeve the seemingly fragile connection pipe with a thicker pipe (like they did in some areas). To top off the irritation, they were constantly trying to find ways to ask for "baksheesh" for doing the same job! The BWSSB let water flow in the lines for more than a week before giving the connections to individual houses (conserve water? - that's only meant for you) and the "connection" workers came around once again asking for money to "buy" material to give the connection. All this when the old water lines were working fine (if not better).
I would rate BESCOM to be better that the corrupt BBMP or the shoddy, pathetic BWSSB but they should ideally just merge these entities OR make them answerable to the BBMP. As usual, there is no marking or highlighting of where the work was done either by BWSSB or BESCOM. Maybe we should wait for GAIL to come and dig up the road and see what they discover.
A very astute observation and it is exactly what is going on in the country as a whole and especially in Bangalore city. I can name many such projects (Silkboard Flyover, Hebbal Flyover,, etc.) that were meant to ease congestion but have become a massive choke point due to insufficient number of lanes and poor traffic management leading up to these flyovers.
Add to that, unnecessary white topping work where it was absolutely NOT required(no accountability, no questions asked as to why this work was taken up or money was spent). Flyovers to tech parks (for e.g. Manyata tech park) have been in progress since more than two and a half years!!, construction material strewn all over the place, diversions etc. thus keeping the city in a perpetual state of misery throughout. Yes, this is the (perpetual) development that we asked for.
gokul.ece22
Explorer
Government spent Rs 110 crore to construct storm water drains in chennai as a part of smart city initiative.
Guess what happened?
www.thenewsminute.com
Where did the money go? Down the drain.
Guess what happened?
Several pockets of T Nagar, including GN Chetty Road and Pondy Bazaar still flooded
On November 7, Pondy Bazaar in T Nagar and its Rs 39 crore pedestrian plaza developed under the Smart City Mission was submerged under water. Chennai had receiv
Where did the money go? Down the drain.
Kaleen Bhaiya
Herald
After these scams and the haphazard ways construction carried out to achieve development and tags, I wonder if Smart City concept is an Anathema..
Reading that message "Work in progress for a better future pisses me off!!"
www.thequint.com
Reading that message "Work in progress for a better future pisses me off!!"
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Add this to the list:
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Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao | 80% of funds spent on media campaigns
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Northstar
Where is the money going ? how about reading what the govt tells you. It's called a status paper
www.indiatoday.in
As to what this govt has been doing. Fixing the damage caused by the last one. If you recall they did not leave the economy in a very good state.
Sanjeev Sanyal has spoken about this already. Look up some of his videos. He was a principal adviser to this govt.
I remember one line of his. The Fiscal defict was hovering close to 8% when Modi entered office. You can't go from 8 to 5% which is what they had to do in the first term without causing pain.
Modi has been lucky. Oil prices crashed a few months after he entered office. We've had bumper harvests year on year since. This gave the headroom to fix things.
India’s debt under Modi govt surges 50% to Rs 82 lakh crore
Compared to the latest data available till September 2018 when the total debt of the Central government stood at Rs 82,03,253 crore, the corresponding amount till June 2014 was Rs 54,90,763 crore, the Finance Ministry's data on government borrowings shows.
As to what this govt has been doing. Fixing the damage caused by the last one. If you recall they did not leave the economy in a very good state.
Sanjeev Sanyal has spoken about this already. Look up some of his videos. He was a principal adviser to this govt.
I remember one line of his. The Fiscal defict was hovering close to 8% when Modi entered office. You can't go from 8 to 5% which is what they had to do in the first term without causing pain.
Modi has been lucky. Oil prices crashed a few months after he entered office. We've had bumper harvests year on year since. This gave the headroom to fix things.
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Mr.J
Herald
Sure, let's trust this administration. It's not like they blatantly lie.
Fiscal deficit was near 4.5%.
Arun Jaitley's five-year struggle to bring down fiscal deficit
The NDA government brought down fiscal deficit and largely avoided any big slippage since it came to power in 2014.
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Northstar
Show me where the lies are in that 142 page report.
Mr.J
Herald
One, I don't care to. Two, status paper is only a declaration of where the money is being spent. Effective spending of that expenditure requires audits and investigation which is not captured in status paper.
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Northstar
What other source will you use ?
Topic of the thread of which i was the only one to provide the answer
This is an entirely different argument.
The word effective is not used by CAG, there are three items here compliance, financial & performance. Knock yourself out
CAG's Audit Reports | Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) promote accountability, transparency. One can also get details related to presentation report and activity report.
Primer to who CAG is
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Kaleen Bhaiya
Herald
CAG's have recently become a stooge to the govt. Complete erosion of credibility of the institution it once was. Same with EC.
A lot if data is still hidden from the public, for instance pmcares about how money is used, where it is used. Election bonds.
Govt docs are prepared to present a rosy picture. No institution is going to be self-critical or go against their masters.
Everything Looks good on paper, reality is mockery and systematic butchering of every institution.
A lot if data is still hidden from the public, for instance pmcares about how money is used, where it is used. Election bonds.
Govt docs are prepared to present a rosy picture. No institution is going to be self-critical or go against their masters.
Everything Looks good on paper, reality is mockery and systematic butchering of every institution.
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Mr.J
Herald
Mate, don't even bother. If anyone still supports this administration after last 7 years then there's nothing you can say to reason with them. Block them and move on.
tech.monk
Guide
Our forum has option for this, it is called Ignore
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Northstar
Work with what we got and avoid conspiracies. Your mindset is the govt is lying. Guilty until proven innocent ? that's not how it works in our system.
This is the mindset of people who are looking for an agenda.
Who are you going to trust then ? the opposition ? who lies outright all the time. hehe.
Why do so many people not get this.
It's very simple. They're in charge, they make the laws, policy and history. If you want to speak credibly about what this govt is doing then you have to follow what they say.
Question all you want. But where is your basis ? you have none.
This was a zero content thread until i showed up. Usual case.
Nobody is willing to do any searching or reading. But comments mostly worthless are dime a dozen here.
I trust what the govt says until shown otherwise. Any govt of any country that qualifies as free and democratic.
The people that i completely ignore are the opposition. This is good time management because 8 out of 10 things they say are false.
I restrict my self to sources that are positive, informative and have a feel good factor. The last is optional the first two are not.
This way i can figure out the affairs of any country, identify the opposition so i can ignore them and follow the supporters whose critiques are the only ones i listen to.
World affairs 101 for dummies. It REALLY is that simple
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Marcus Fenix
Herald
Yeah.. tell that to the Bhima Koregaon social workers who are still rotting in jail without a trial.
As well as the hundreds of UAPA cases that have been lodged.
Everyone is aware of your mental gymnastics in this forum by now.
I would just urge other members to not step on a landmine and say something personally derogatory which would get them banned.