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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Um, that's my revolving chair
The Times of India reports:
Some of it goes in "luxury huts at the tourist spot of Cheshmashahi on the foothills of Zabarwan mountain". In the past, "[c]rores were said to have been spent on the interior decoration of the official houses". The TOI's sources have revealed that "a single revolving chair for the CM’s house cost Rs 75,000, while a walnut bed cost Rs 1 lakh".
All this, of course, from tax-payers' money. But we just sigh, too inured for outrage.
The Indian Express reported on a similar case yesterday, though public money wasn't involved in that case. That doesn't make the alleged offence a lesser one, but at least the parents who were done in by the school in that story can go somewhere else next year. I'll still have to pay my taxes.
The Centre may be making available Rs 521 crore to the Jammu and Kashmir government every year for security-related expenditure (SRE) or combating militancy, but not all of it is used for tackling fidayeens or extirpating the roots of insurgency.
Some of it goes in "luxury huts at the tourist spot of Cheshmashahi on the foothills of Zabarwan mountain". In the past, "[c]rores were said to have been spent on the interior decoration of the official houses". The TOI's sources have revealed that "a single revolving chair for the CM’s house cost Rs 75,000, while a walnut bed cost Rs 1 lakh".
All this, of course, from tax-payers' money. But we just sigh, too inured for outrage.
The Indian Express reported on a similar case yesterday, though public money wasn't involved in that case. That doesn't make the alleged offence a lesser one, but at least the parents who were done in by the school in that story can go somewhere else next year. I'll still have to pay my taxes.
