As if the scam pertaining to buying of coffins was not enough, the widows of the martyrs had to go through the ordeal of the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam
As if the scam pertaining to buying of coffins was not enough, the widows of the martyrs had to go through the ordeal of the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam. The flats meant for Kargil martyrs' families, ended up getting allotted to everyone but the actual beneficiaries.
Being located at one of the costliest areas of Mumbai, in Colaba, the political, defence and bureaucratic class of India left no opportunity to get their names illegally registered for the property.
It is hilarious the way our babus and politicians have reacted to the scam in front of the media.While the Maharashtra chief minister offered to quit, the former Indian Army chief, Gen N C Vij, stated that he was not even aware that the Adarsh Society flats were meant for Kargil war widows; and so he purchased one! The recently retired Gen Deepak Kapoor also gave a similar answer.
It's a disgrace to have fodder billionaires, IPL billionaires, CWG billionaires, and hundreds of 'Adarsh' millionaires!
What's more, in documents submitted by the politicians to get flats, some politicians showed their monthly income to be around Rs 20,000. One of these politicians was NCP MP Shrinivas Patil. The flats were purchased for one-tenth of their original rates, and now it comes to the fore that the land on which the society is being built is situated on a sensitive area of Indian Navy.
Recently, a few more land scams have been unearthed in India, one in Karnataka and the other in Rishikesh, Uttrakhand. Each of these scams runs into multiples of crores. In the past one decade, we have had the infamous Ketan Parekh scam, the Satyam scam, the Barak missile scam, the oil for food scam, Madhu Koda scam, the fodder scam, the IPL scam, the CWG scam, and the list goes on and on...
According to Late C K Prahlad, the cost of corruption to this country is a staggering Rs 2,50,000 crores! Though I feel that it is impossible to put a right value to the billions that are getting systematically siphoned, but then, keeping Prahlad's figure as the basis, the per capita corruption for India, through various scams, comes to a whopping Rs 2500!
What is most unfortunate is the fact that as the scams magnify, both in scope and scale, crony capitalism becomes the order of the day! That's why as a nation, we might have a hundred billionaires, but not a single billion-dollar value product!
It is a matter of utter disgrace that India has fodder billionaires, IPL billionaires, CWG billionaires and hundreds of 'Adarsh' millionaires!
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