Indians are getting more obese by the day. Considering how frequently we are caught with our hands inside inside the cookie jar, we must be spending most of our time in the vicinity of the jar.
The latest cookie jar episode is about the ISRO spectrum scandal (http://in.news.yahoo.com/bigger-than-2g--cag-suspects-scam-in-s-band-allocation.html). This seems to be of the order of $40 billion. We Indians have really come of age. We don't seem to be interested unless the size is big enough. Till about a few years back a million dollars seemed to be HUGE money to us.
What was really heartwarming, when I read the editorial on this issue in the Hindu today, was that the CAG (Indian Government's Auditing department) had done a pretty diligent job last year on this ISRO issue.
While I don't know the details of what CAG did, it's lovely to see some government department in India being reliable. One hardly sees reliability, trustworthiness these days in anything related to government.
The Devas group, which is the party that is accused to have benefited from this deal, issued a hot denial of any wrong doing couple of days back. And the government is seriously looking at repudiating the contract with the group.
And the government is looking at repudiating the contracts on 2G.
What more will the government repudiate? If we spend more time on undoing things than on doing things, how can we go forward? What is the learning from all this?
Where is the Elliot Ness and his gang of untouchables in India? Will we ever have them?
Where is the Elliot Ness and his gang of untouchables in India? Will we ever have them?
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