by O.P. Pareek
CURSE OF COMMONWEALTH
September 30, 2010 in News, Views and Issues, Sports Enthusiasts by O.P. Pareek
Yes. it’s a curse. Ask media, ask professionals and ask the People of India. They all will agree that indeed these games are a curse. The project is ‘jinxed’ right from the signing of agreement in 2002. They bribed certain countries to put India as the game grabber. Mani Shankar Aiyar says he knew all that and much more but could not stop them from going ahead. To start with the whole project, including stadia would have costed Rs.615.6 crores if we could have plunged into it in 2003 but that was not to be. Ultimately you would be incurring more than seventy thousand crores in 2010. How can you say we are a ‘poor country’. Why anybody should care as people’s hard earned money is a “haraam ki kamaai”. A housewife goes a Kilometre to buy vegetables from a weekly “haat” so that she can buy her vegetables a bit cheaper but those involved in C’wealth projects would not care as how the crores of taxpayers’ hard earned money is going down the drain.
It’s a curse because it has made a nation of 130 crore people to become “a laughing stock” of the whole world . Here is a PM, who is overly obsessed with so called GDP percentages whereas the daily consumption food item index registers an inflation rate of 17.6%. At the fag end of August 2010 when the ridicule came from all sides - not only from India but also other nations of Commonwealth Mr. Singh awakes, visits the venues (or the mess) and asks Baboos to work with ‘double vigour’. Does that inspire even an ordinary worker; forget about his own thick-skinned babus. His Sports Minister an Ex-Babu called ‘Gill’ gives a long lecture in Parliament about the Punjabi wedding where every thing gets settled when the ‘Baraat’ arrives but he avoids answering any specific queries raised by the law makers.
When the rate lists of merchandise bought for the games brought to open by our media the whole nation felt stunned except “Gill-Kalmadi-Reddy & Co.” and gill said “Maine to kuchh nahin kharida, jinhon ne kharida unse poonchho“. Corruption was obvious to every naked eye. So it is a curse because people elsewhere have started doubting India’s ability to become an economic powerhouse in the face of such rampant corruption, inefficiency, nepotism and arrogance of Babus like Bhanot, Kalmadi and Reddy. The Delhi CM Ms. Dixit is a class apart since she cared two hoots about the public perception of Delhiites who are facing daily ordeals arising aout of the mess created by the coterie on the roads of Delhi and the people being killed in mishaps like caved roads, potholes and score of other such misdemeanors. The Urban Developement Minister Reddy seems to consider the common people of the country as “Keede-Makode” (insects). These leaders talk a lot about “Child labour “but I have myself seen children of the age from 5 to7 years of age laying tiles on the Connaught Place for Kalmadi-Gill-Reddy & Co. Reddy called the Foot Bridge incident (in which 27 workers were injured, five of them seriously) to be a ‘MINOR’ ACCIDENT’. Had there been Mr. Reddy’s own son falling and getting injured under the bridge, would then also Mr. Reddy call it a “minor incident” The problem with the Babus and Minister is they look down on the same masses who vote tem to power
DELAYED COMPLETION of projects is not at all surprising , given the lack of any coordination amongst multiple agencies executing the projects. Anything on this scale would require meticulous planning and coordination. Planning means processes, systems, strategies, structures contingency plans and the required resources in-built time schedules, deadlines and alternate strategy . Obviously that would require highest levels of leadership, professionalism, competence, team work and strict adherance to deadlines.
All big projects employ what they call PERT/CPM techniques whereby PERT charts are prepared and co-ordinated to the dateline progress of the projects and there are meeting points in the chart for co-ordinating related projects. Even a day’s delay is seen as a very serious transgression. Sadly no such sophisticated techniques were employed for the Commonwealth projects. .why should they as their eyes were focussed on the bounty or what the public calls the “haraam ki kamaai”. The results are there for all to see.
Unfortunately the public memory is short. Even a dacoit like A.Raja, a henchman of Karunanidhi is being forgotten after swindling 70,000 crores in the 2-G telecom scam and he still is a Cabinet Minister. So all these scoundrels of Commonwealth games will march to their Swiss Bank accounts after completion of these games; laughing all the way, never to be punished by the government (both center as well as the Delhi Government) who gave them liberty to loot the poor people of India. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
- O.P. PAREEK
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varunavisworld: The best, isn’t it?!Bikram: Already the media is forgetting 2G and CWG…Raja might come back in his earelir position within a few months! We can sit and blog about it!Feel very sad, Bikram!deepsspeakingup: We have to be ashamed of ourselves…no one has got guts to punish these people! All are scared of Raja and Radia because if they are pressurised, the old skeletons might start coming out from every party, yes, even from BJP’s cupboard!Ramesh: Yes, the cartoon is good, Ramesh!Deepa: As soon as I read this email in ‘letters to the editor’ I posted it! The imagination is too good!Ashwini: This is our India, Ashwini!
Yes, I am also agree with you that it’s a curse. Corruption in our country is a word which nowadays won’t disturbed the common man. I also know that this can’t be change in a day or two. But still these types of articles can motivate readers to fight against the corruption, whatever the way it is- like writing articles, through RTI application’s, by complaining to Lokpal etc. I have also read all your posts at jagran and found them all very good and recoomend all indiaeleven visitors to visit and comment on them.
Thank You Ram. True they are not going to live for ever nor they will be able to take away the booty to their eternity but the fact remains that poor suffer in this country endlessy due to their corruption
Thank you Manav for your comment. It’s our patriotic duty to be vigilent and aware of the misdeeds of those in power. Keep up
great post! at least we can and we should raise our voice against such corrupt people… and you have done it well. i hope this voice will reach those deaf fellows… Mr. Kalmadi – are you listening?
Yes Varun,You.re absolutely right. See- this country is not poor; rather made poor by the political and Baboo class.Right fom the day we got freedom they have looted us wantonly. This Commonwealth game scam is nothing.If you see post-independence CAG reports you will be completely bowled out as they contain “verified” cases (thousnds in number) of such loot by public officials right grom the Bade Babooss and IAS officers. All these reports go before the PAC (Public Acctts Committee of Indian Parliament and then “frozen” for ever by the Government. Unfortunately there are no empirical or other studies aboutthis corruption but the then PM Rajiv Gandhi, on record, admitted thst pnly 15 paise reaches the poor out of a rupee given for them from Taxpayer’s money.This games scam is obvious and therefore there is a public outcry but in my same blog I’ve commented on the so called “spectrum scam” whereby Mr. Raja, Telecom Minister in Manmohan Singh Govt. and a a DMK hoodlum has made about 55000 crores (at a modest estimate) out of 75000 crores what was due to the exchecquer. Sometimes I think why I’m paying my taxes to these buggers who pocket away my money in corruption.
I was touched by example of normal housewife who goes so far, just to save a little money……..God only knows wat kind of people they are and wat they are made of….You r right Pareek Ji today i think every Indian is cursing them….but it is of no use because they’ve done wat they wanted to do….these shameless people are sleeping on the money and our international guests and Indian athletes are sleeping on the dirt provided by kalmadi & Co….
Mr. Pareek, you have touched the nerves of common people through your extremely bold post. I usually don’t comment on posts, but could not resist myself. This post has completely shaken myself. It’s not that I did not know these things earlier, but because I was trying to ignore. But how long can we ignore, there has to be limit of tolerance.
You are absolutely right here, Mr. Manmohan Singh, Mr. Kalmadi and team have made us a laughing stock amongst the people of the world. I am unable to face my colleagues from other parts of the world because of no fault of mine. But because I have such selfish, greedy and incompetent leaders. I am unable to think what goes in the mind of such people. Do they think they are going to live forever and because of that they need entire nations money in their home to ensure their living till eternity? What will they do of this money if entire country is doomed because of their actions?
Or they are so incompetent to handle this task?
It’s such a big shame! Do they have some conscience?
Thank You Gauri. Thanks Anjali for your response to my blog on Commonwealth Games. These people have tarnished the image of our great country and one should build public opinion against such persons so that they may be suitably punished for their misdeeds. O.P. Pareek
As all of us know how about our most Netas and Sarkari officer’s corruption instinct but this time they’ve crossed all the limits….really Had Kar Di…..God Bless India..
It will be better if name it “Kalmadi & co.’s family game”….coz it all within their families….