India, consistent with the Hindu calendar, stories six seasons - Vasant (spring), Grishma (summer season), Varsha (monsoon), Sharad (autumn), Hemant (pre-winter) and Shishir (iciness). 'Ghotala' (rip-off) deserves to be added because the seventh season as Indians have perennially experienced it, even ahead of the rustic received independence.
Believing in Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grit, bravery and ability to unfastened the rustic from colonial rule, commoners donated private ornaments and jewellery to the Indian National Army (INA). Immediately after Bose's death in 1945, the INA war chest went lacking thanks to the greed of one of the most freedom warring parties. In the 1950s, the Jawaharlal Nehru government left out repeated suggestions for a probe into embezzlement of INA's wealth. One high suspect changed into the PM's media adviser.
Even ahead of India changed into a republic, the then Indian high commissioner to the UK V Okay Krishna Menon left out protocol and signed a Rs 80 lakh contract with a foreign company for supply of 200 jeeps to the Indian Army. The contract cash was paid up entrance. But most effective 155 jeeps were delivered. Nehru stopped the probe after which home minister G B Pant closed the file. Menon went on to turn out to be the defence minister beneath Nehru.
The foundation for scams was well laid with political collusion. Irrigated by way of many bountiful seasons of baby-kisser bureaucrat-police-criminal nexus, scams have unfold to each box.
Form coal block allocations to cash-forvote in Parliament, Jain hawala to JMM MPs bribery, Bofors payoff to fodder, Satyam Computers to Sarada chit budget; Harshad Mehta to C R Bhansali to Ketan Parekh, spectrum to Commonwealth Games, PDS to rice export, Vijay Mallya to Nirav Modi - a majority of these scams make us remeber Kabir's well-known doha, "Do patan ke beech, sabut bacha na koi (between the two stones, no one survives)".
Why has no regime been unfastened from scams? Why have scams turn out to be a seasonal going down? Why has no government been able to detect even the large fish?
The PV Narasimha Rao government on July 9, 1993, arrange a committee headed by way of then home secretary N N Vohra "to take stock of all available information about activities of crime syndicates/mafia organisations which had developed links with, and were being protected, by government functionaries and political personalities". Other participants of the committee were the earnings secretary, the Intelligence Bureau director and the CBI director.
It was promised that according to the committee's suggestions, the federal government would decide the will, if any, to establish a distinct agency to ceaselessly gather data and pursue instances in opposition to such components.
On October 5, 1993, the committee submitted its damning findings, maximum of which were known to other people. Vohra committee's report painted a gloomy picture and said the mafia community "is virtually running a parallel government pushing the state apparatus into irrelevance".
The Supreme Court in Vineet Narain case on December 18, 1997, said, "The report is significant for the dismal picture of the existing scenario which discloses a powerful nexus between the bureaucracy and politicians with mafia gangs, smugglers and the underworld. The report of the Vohra committee is the opinion of some top bureaucrats and it confirmed our worst suspicions, focusing the need of improving the procedure for constitution and monitoring the functioning of intelligence agencies. There is, thus, no doubt that this exercise cannot be delayed further."
Nearly 25 years have passed because the Vohra committee submitted its report concerning the state of affairs in governance of India and the parallel gadget run by way of mafia in nexus with politicians and bureaucrats.
The Vijay Mallyas and Nirav Modis have confirmed to us that nothing has changed within the quarter century because the Vohra committee report. No government has been able to prevent the onset of the seventh season of rip-off, which with periodic regularity continues to wreak havoc on the economy.
Regularity of scams has taken the sheen off lofty phrases used ceaselessly by way of the SC - "be you ever so high, the law is above you". Scamsters have seldom been punished because the machinery takes years to assemble evidence and courts take nonetheless extra years to inspect the evidence.
In 2003, the Centre had arrange Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO). It comprised officers from taxation, customs, central excise, data generation, company legislation, capital markets, banking, investigation, police, forensic audit etc and it began functioning from October 2003.
What a waste of this kind of talent pool? Has the federal government fixed duty on SFIO? How may just the Mallyas and the Modis get away its lenses? We will have to also fasten duty on Intelligence Bureau, Department of Revenue Intelligence and the Central Bureau of Investigation, the specialized agencies which were created to keep India's economy and voters secure in opposition to scamsters.
On Ram Jethmalani's petition in opposition to black cash, an SC bench headed by way of Justice B Sudershan Reddy on July 4, 2011, had summed up the placement, "Increasingly, as a result of 'greed is good' culture that has been promoted by way of neo-liberal ideologues, many nations face the placement where the model of capitalism that the state is pressured to institute, and the markets it spawns, is predatory in nature. From mining mafias to political operators who, all too willingly, bend policies of the state to fit particular individuals or groups within the social and financial sphere, the raison d'etre for weakening the capacities and intent to put in force the rules is the lure of the lucre.
"Even because the state provides violent strengthen to those that benefit from such predatory capitalism, frequently violating the human rights of its voters, specifically it is deficient, the marketplace starts to function like a bureaucratic machine dominated by way of big industry, and the state starts to function like the marketplace, where the whole thing is available on the market at a value."
Believing in Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grit, bravery and ability to unfastened the rustic from colonial rule, commoners donated private ornaments and jewellery to the Indian National Army (INA). Immediately after Bose's death in 1945, the INA war chest went lacking thanks to the greed of one of the most freedom warring parties. In the 1950s, the Jawaharlal Nehru government left out repeated suggestions for a probe into embezzlement of INA's wealth. One high suspect changed into the PM's media adviser.
Even ahead of India changed into a republic, the then Indian high commissioner to the UK V Okay Krishna Menon left out protocol and signed a Rs 80 lakh contract with a foreign company for supply of 200 jeeps to the Indian Army. The contract cash was paid up entrance. But most effective 155 jeeps were delivered. Nehru stopped the probe after which home minister G B Pant closed the file. Menon went on to turn out to be the defence minister beneath Nehru.
The foundation for scams was well laid with political collusion. Irrigated by way of many bountiful seasons of baby-kisser bureaucrat-police-criminal nexus, scams have unfold to each box.
Form coal block allocations to cash-forvote in Parliament, Jain hawala to JMM MPs bribery, Bofors payoff to fodder, Satyam Computers to Sarada chit budget; Harshad Mehta to C R Bhansali to Ketan Parekh, spectrum to Commonwealth Games, PDS to rice export, Vijay Mallya to Nirav Modi - a majority of these scams make us remeber Kabir's well-known doha, "Do patan ke beech, sabut bacha na koi (between the two stones, no one survives)".
Why has no regime been unfastened from scams? Why have scams turn out to be a seasonal going down? Why has no government been able to detect even the large fish?
The PV Narasimha Rao government on July 9, 1993, arrange a committee headed by way of then home secretary N N Vohra "to take stock of all available information about activities of crime syndicates/mafia organisations which had developed links with, and were being protected, by government functionaries and political personalities". Other participants of the committee were the earnings secretary, the Intelligence Bureau director and the CBI director.
It was promised that according to the committee's suggestions, the federal government would decide the will, if any, to establish a distinct agency to ceaselessly gather data and pursue instances in opposition to such components.
On October 5, 1993, the committee submitted its damning findings, maximum of which were known to other people. Vohra committee's report painted a gloomy picture and said the mafia community "is virtually running a parallel government pushing the state apparatus into irrelevance".
The Supreme Court in Vineet Narain case on December 18, 1997, said, "The report is significant for the dismal picture of the existing scenario which discloses a powerful nexus between the bureaucracy and politicians with mafia gangs, smugglers and the underworld. The report of the Vohra committee is the opinion of some top bureaucrats and it confirmed our worst suspicions, focusing the need of improving the procedure for constitution and monitoring the functioning of intelligence agencies. There is, thus, no doubt that this exercise cannot be delayed further."
Nearly 25 years have passed because the Vohra committee submitted its report concerning the state of affairs in governance of India and the parallel gadget run by way of mafia in nexus with politicians and bureaucrats.
The Vijay Mallyas and Nirav Modis have confirmed to us that nothing has changed within the quarter century because the Vohra committee report. No government has been able to prevent the onset of the seventh season of rip-off, which with periodic regularity continues to wreak havoc on the economy.
Regularity of scams has taken the sheen off lofty phrases used ceaselessly by way of the SC - "be you ever so high, the law is above you". Scamsters have seldom been punished because the machinery takes years to assemble evidence and courts take nonetheless extra years to inspect the evidence.
In 2003, the Centre had arrange Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO). It comprised officers from taxation, customs, central excise, data generation, company legislation, capital markets, banking, investigation, police, forensic audit etc and it began functioning from October 2003.
What a waste of this kind of talent pool? Has the federal government fixed duty on SFIO? How may just the Mallyas and the Modis get away its lenses? We will have to also fasten duty on Intelligence Bureau, Department of Revenue Intelligence and the Central Bureau of Investigation, the specialized agencies which were created to keep India's economy and voters secure in opposition to scamsters.
On Ram Jethmalani's petition in opposition to black cash, an SC bench headed by way of Justice B Sudershan Reddy on July 4, 2011, had summed up the placement, "Increasingly, as a result of 'greed is good' culture that has been promoted by way of neo-liberal ideologues, many nations face the placement where the model of capitalism that the state is pressured to institute, and the markets it spawns, is predatory in nature. From mining mafias to political operators who, all too willingly, bend policies of the state to fit particular individuals or groups within the social and financial sphere, the raison d'etre for weakening the capacities and intent to put in force the rules is the lure of the lucre.
"Even because the state provides violent strengthen to those that benefit from such predatory capitalism, frequently violating the human rights of its voters, specifically it is deficient, the marketplace starts to function like a bureaucratic machine dominated by way of big industry, and the state starts to function like the marketplace, where the whole thing is available on the market at a value."
Niravs don't surprise us, for scam is India's seventh season
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Reviewed by Kailash
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February 19, 2018
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