We, in India, are used to Politicians hushing up scams, doctoring evidence, out right rolling the issue under the carpet or even doctoring the FIRs.
A record of sorts in the world was created when the Deli’s Anti Corruption Branch refused to take action against Union Minister in the Reliance Gas Price fixing case.
Shinde, Home Minister, India
Read the degradation of Democracy.
NEW DELHI: In a U-turn, Delhi Government‘s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has refused to probe a complaint of “misuse” of official position by a Union Minister as it was beyond its jurisdiction.
Incidentally, the ACB had last week registered an FIR against Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily, RIL Chief Mukesh Ambani, former Union Minister Murli Deora and retired Director General of Hydrocarbons V K Sibal among others on Reliance gas pricing issue.
Veerappa Moily, Petroleum Minister went on TV stating that whenever the Government tries to effect some changes in Petroleum pricing, the Ministers are being threatened.
No minister can be sure of his berth in the Cabinet if he dares to challenge the Business Lobby.
More cozy,better for you.
No wonder there is high pressure lobbying by the Cabinet Post aspiration.
As a matter of fact, the Business lobbies decide who should be given tickets even!
These companies have Liaison officers like Nira Radia who fix things.
Listen to Radia tapes in my site, you will know how the fixing is done for Minister ship and for even Media fixing.
We have a Law on paer that each party must declare the information of Donations.
But what is reported is only a small negligible portion of what is collected.
“Between 2009-11 period, the Congress party earned almost Rs 750 crore out of which Rs 500 crore were from selling party coupons. While the party got Rs 111 .73 crore from donations, it earned Rs 44.11 crore from interest. Interestingly, the party got only 12 per cent of the donations that was above Rs 20,000 and about which the party must give the details of the donors. So the party has not declared how it got approximately Rs 600 crore…
Even the BJP has not been any different. The party earned Rs 425 crore during the 2009-11 period out of which Rs 300 crore was from voluntary donations. Approximately Rs 30 crore was as lifelong contribution fund and Rs 3 crore from interest. The party got just 22 per cent of the money from donors who gave more than Rs 20,000.
Experts say that political parties fear that they are brought under the RTI, then they will have to share details bout their earnings. Between 2010 and 2011 the Congress received only Rs 20,000 or more from only 417 donors while 502 donations made to the BJP were above the Rs 20,000 mark. AIADMK, Shiromani Akali Dal and BSP got no single donations above Rs 20,00..
The World Record Black out in India yesterday is the world record for power outage.
The government is clueless as to what has happened and has instituted an enquiry into the incident.
Why have Central Electrical Authority at all?
If remember correctly it was Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu who stated that the State was unable to draw Power from Gujarat which had released Power to meet Tamil Nadu‘s Power shortage,because the CEA was unable to release the Power due to technical problems as CEA cuts supply if a State draws more power.
How come CEA seems to know nothing of this affair?
NEW DELHI: India’s power network was back at full capacity on Wednesday after two days of massive outages that blacked out half the country and left more than 600 million people without electricity.
“Power has been restored fully across the northern, eastern and north-eastern grids,” Power System Operation Corp chief SK Soonee said.
Monday’s failure of the northern network, followed by the expanded collapse of all three grids after midday Tuesday caused chaos across a vast region, paralysing transport networks.
Hundreds of miners were trapped underground for hours in the eastern states of West Bengal and Jharkhand, metro services were stopped temporarily in the capital New Delhi and hundreds of trains were held up nationwide.
New power minister Veerappa Moily, who was appointed to the post in a Cabinet reshuffle even as Tuesday’s unprecedented crisis was still playing out, admitted he faced an enormous task in restoring public confidence.
“It is a very difficult and challenging situation, and solutions will have to be found,” Moily said in a series of interviews with Indian television networks, one of which was interrupted by a blackout.
According to senior ministry officials, the two successive days of grid failure had been triggered by energy-hungry states drawing power beyond their allocated limits.
“I’m not going to start with a blame game. The Centre and the states will have to work together on this,” Moily said.
“The fact is that energy demand across India is huge, and we have to try and keep in touch with the pace of development,” he added.
The massive power cuts left Indians angry and frustrated in cities across the affected region, as they struggled through gridlocked streets in the humid monsoon heat.
Wednesday’s newspapers were predictably critical of the government, saying it lacked the political will to implement long called for reforms in the power sector.
“Powerless and Clueless,” ran the front-page headline in the Times of India, while the Economic Times splashed with “Superpower India, RIP”.
Business lobby group the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) estimated the losses to small and large business in billions of rupees (tens of millions of dollars) and said India’s investment image abroad had taken a major hit.
The repeated outages “carry a very negative image of India, when already sentiments about the country are low on account of the current economic situation,” CII director general Chandrajit Banerjee said in a statement.
As one of the world’s fastest emerging economies, it is “imperative that our basic infrastructure requirements” are in keeping with India’s aspirations, Banerjee said.
“The recent developments have created a huge dent in the country’s reputation that is most unfortunate,” he added.
The government has set a target of $400 billion of private and public investment over the next five years, but its track record is abysmal.
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