Fighting Corruption in Shining India: CAG Reports

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Shining India full of Corruption

Opposition benches of Indian parliament headed by the BJP-led NDA have asked PM Manmohan Singh to resign, due to his involvement in one of the leading corruption case of shining India. The Comptroller and Auditor General’s reports (CAG Reports) have estimated “undue benefits” of over Rs. 3.06 lakh croer to private parties in coal block allocation without bidding, Delhi Airport development and diversion of coal to a power project. The corruption has been made when Mahmohan Singh was in charge of the Coal Ministry for part of the period between 1993 and 2004. As expected from the first meeting of parliament after the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on coal block allocation surfaced, both houses were adjourned as the opposition parties created a din.

On August 23, 2012 CAG earlier too exposed the weakness in the safety of Indian nuclear programming while initiating the report on India’s nuclear safety and shown great concerns over a weak regulatory body. In its report on the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s (AERB) performance audit, the Comptroller and Auditor General have warned a Fukushima or Chernobyl-like disaster if the nuclear safety issue is not addressed by the government. Indian wishful policy of becoming regional power while beating China politically, economically and militarily terribly failed but credit goes to Indian political and military top brass that they remained successful in beating China in the corruption. According to the global anti-graft watchdog, which compiles an annual list of countries based on their ranking on a scale of 1 to 10, places declared India is perceived to be more corrupt than China which is ranked 75th on the list.

Nevertheless, it is not the first case in India, when an elected head of government has been pointed out for corruption charges. Both, Indian civil and military set ups have long rich history of corruptions starting from moral to finical treachery. In 1987, then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were alleged of receiving kickbacks in the deal of Bofors. According to the reports, Mr. Ottavio Quattrochi was a businessman close to the Gandhi family who played as middle man role in the deal of kickbacks. Rajiv Gandhi lost his 1989 elections due to the backlash of these allegations.

Similarly, many Americans’ electric companies have also been exposed for smuggling of the sensitive nature of technical devices and equipment to India. Reportedly, the same equipments and devices were later on used in preparation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), nuclear programme and missile technology. However, famous Bofors scandal till today is known as one of the biggest scandals in Indian politics. The scandal started when India decided to purchase 400 155mm Howitzers (fancy word for really-big-kickass-gun) from Swedish company Bofors AB for $1.4 billion in 1986.

Although, corruption is present almost in every country on various level, yet case of India is of special attention since the local level corruption has overridden the internationalized bribe or corruption. I do acknowledge here that corruption does exist in Pakistan too but state of situation in certain humanitarian affairs as compared to India is still better of due to independent judiciary and media.

According to recently conducted survey by a western NGO most the children are under nourish and almost 40% world’s underweight children belong to Harijan cast (an untouchable person from the lowest cast of Hindu society) of Shining India. Moreover, 70% population’s daily earning is below Rs 20/-. The survey also revealed that 72 % women in India have suffered with sexual torture and most of them were from working class. Bollywood (Mumbai) of so called Incredible India is at the top in the world for prostitution.

Surprisingly, corruption in Indian low and high ranking army officers have been grown quite high. As per Indian media Army officials have been found illegally selling arms and weapons. In this connection, most of the lieutenant colonels and colonels, had faced a court of inquiry in relation to a public suit, filed in the Rajasthan High Court by an advocate who stated that the officers were selling their private weapons to “people of suspected character”. The Economic Times also revealed on July 7, 2011, the weapons were bought by these army officers from the Central Ordnance Depot of Jabalpur and later sold to civilians in violation of the Arms Act, the petition had contended. The Supreme Court is presently hearing the case.

A very well motivated General V.K Singh, former Army Chief has also failed to stop or eliminate corruption and himself became the victim of corrupt Indian mafia. The track record of Indian corruption shows that Lt. Gen. Surendra Kumar Sahni, Lt. Gen. S.K. Dahiya, Maj-Gen. Anand Swaroop, Maj-Gen SP Sinha, Maj-Gen. Anand Kapoor, Maj-Gen. Gur Iqbal Singh Multani, Brig Guredeep Singh remained involve in unauthorized construction of a golf club building at Ambala cantonment, sexual harassment of female officers and lady wives of their subordinates, possessing disproportionate assets, smuggling of large quantities of defence liquor, rregularities in procuring meat and dry rations for the troops, stationed at Siachen and so on. In spite of court martial against the army officials, malpractices in one way or the other have kept on going in the Indian defence forces.

In 2011, Indian parliament presented a bill due to the hunger strike by anti-graft activist Anna Hazare, emphasising stronger legislation to combat the curse of corruption. Anna movement also claimed that almost all politicians, judges, police including total civil service are corrupt. Anyhow Indian political system successfully delayed the much-awaited ‘Lokpal Bill” and asked their Parliamentary committee to examine it to submit its report by the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament.

In short Indian political system is the major misfortune for the general masses. In this regard, in November 2011, India’s World Economic Forum (WEF), the participants indicated that corruption has “paralysed New Delhi for a darkening economic outlook.” India is facing acute poverty, crimes and violence of various forms, economic crisis and social strife, resulting in political instability in the country under India’s so-called democracy. As one of the largest democratic state, India has failed in enforcing her responsibilities to end corruption in society, which ultimately gave birth to militancy in Maoists’ areas and others states. Presently, most of the independents movements are result of the corrupt Indian culture which really needs to be changed for elevation of the life of poor people of India.

By Zaheer-ul-Hasan
The writer can be approached through zameer36@gmail.com

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Indian communication satellite explodes after lift off

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India's ambitious space program suffered a serious setback as its rocket carrying an advanced communication satellite GSAT-5P exploded after lift off. It was at 4:04 pm (almost 20 minutes ago from now) that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the rocket, with a 2,310 kg GSAT-5P satellite costing about Rs 125 crore. It rose into the sky with a deep roar, emitting thick orange flame at its tail. And suddenly it exploded and disintegrated into pieces.

Indian communication satellite GSAT-5P ready to lift off

The launch was originally scheduled for Nov 20 but was aborted a day earlier after a leak was detected in one of the valves of the Russian-made cryogenic engine. Later, tests ensured the stability of the valve. The ISRO gave the go-ahead for a Christmas day launch. The Russians had supplied seven cryogenic engines long back, and India has used six of them till date.

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Pakistani hackers hack India's top investigating agency CBI's website

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Pakistan Cyber Army has mocked Indian cyber security in front of the whole tech world by hacking the premier investigating agency CBI's website on Friday night. The programmers who hacked the website identified themselves as "Pakistan Cyber Army". The home page of the CBI website had a message from the "Pakistan Cyber Army" warning the wannabe Indian Cyber Army not to attack Pakistani websites in future.

The hackers have made a mockery of India's cyber security by infiltrating into the CBI website, supposed to be one of the most secure websites. The CBI is connected to the command centre of world police organisation - Interpol - 24x7.The message from the hackers also spoke about the filtering controls provided by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), a body which mans computer servers across the country. The Pakistani Cyber Army has also warned that it would carry out "mass defacement" of other websites if attacks continue on Pakistani websites.


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The ultimate source of fatal diseases, "Shining India" - Now presents NDM-1

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People often go to India for operation as they are done very cheaply over there. India calls this industry as Medical tourism and the profit India gains per annum has crossed Rs.1200 Crore. And every year 1.1 million people from different countries come to India for different operations and surgeries especially cosmetic and open-heart surgery. One of the hospital groups in New Delhi operated more than 95000 patients in one year and it is predicted that the profit might to 1 billion dollars in 2012.

India opened this with a slogan "First world treatment at third world rate"  in the year 2000. But suddenly this industry started falling down at an astonishing rate. The sole reason for the downfall is a kind of bacteria virus which is carrying a special kind gene which is called New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1). This is a kind of virus, which if enters a human body, then no antibiotic works in the body which is a drug that have a anti-bacterial effect and are commonly used. They either kill the bacteria or keep them from reproducing. However, NDM-1 does not allow them to work and make them functionless. NDM-1 mixes up with other bacterias and make them anti-biotic resistant. This is an Indian gene originated in India and was detected for the first time in a hospital in New Delhi and it is found nowhere else in the world, India is the biggest source of spreading it. Whoever goes to India to get himself cured from some disease is found infected with NDM-1. It is a very alarming situation. This gene has no cure yet and scientist are doing research on it.

NDM-1 was detected for the first time in a Swedish patient in Sweden after he returned from India. Nowadays most of the research on NDM-1 is done in Sweden and Norway. Those European scientist who for the first time blamed India for NDM-1 are not being issued Visa by India Government for further research. The first scientist to work on it was Dr. Yong et al.

A study by a multi-national team was published in the August 2010 in a journal "The Lancet Infectious Diseases." This examined the emergence and spread of bacteria carrying the NDM-1 gene. This reported on 37 cases in the United Kingdom, 44 isolates with NDM-1 in Chennai, 26 in Haryana and 73 in various other sites in Pakistan and India. The authors' analysis of the strains showed that many carried NDM-1 on plasmids, which will allow the gene to be readily transferred between different strains of bacteria by horizontal gene transfer.

Scientist even cautioned players taking part in the commonwealth games that they can get infected by this incurable disease. and as expected, the samples collected from the rooms of players had the effects on NDM-1. People from all over the world come to India to get cured and instead get infected by an uncurable disease. But India is not taking this matter seriously at all. Indian politicians have described linking this new drug resistance gene to India as “malicious propaganda” and blamed multinational corporations for what they describe as selective malignancy. A Bharatiya Janata Party politician has instead argued that the journal article is bogus and represented an attempt to scare medical tourists away from India.

It has stunned all the medical scientists all over the world as they are watching India on the Zionist media as Shining as a star. Pakistan has a very good opportunity of developing a clientage in the big hospital if the puppet government shows some interest. Anyhow, our free and sincere advice to all those interested in getting operated cheaply in India should get themselves operated in Pakistan as the cosmetic surgery in Pakistani hospitals is without a doubt far more cheap than in India. And even if the cure for NDM-1 is invented, Prevention is always better than cure.


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Dalits (untouchables) can't access water sources in 48.4% of Indian villages

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A study was held recently in the Rural India entitled "Untouchability" which disclosed the plight of Dalits(Shudars) in India. The study, which covered 565 villages in 11 states of India reveals the following observations:

• Public health workers refused to visit Dalit homes in 33% of villages
• Dalits were prevented from entering the police station in 27.6% of villages
• Dalit children had to sit separately while eating in 37.8% of government schools
• Dalits did not get mail delivered to their homes in 23.5% of villages
• Dalits were denied access to water sources 48.4% of villages
• Half of India’s Dalit and Shudar children are undernourished and 21% are severely underweight
• Literacy rates for Dalit women are as low as 37.8% in rural India.

Dalits are the lowest members of Hindu caste system in India. They undertake occupations that the rest of Indian society found filthy and embarrassing and also receive ill-treatment from the members of the higher castes, particularly from Brahmins. For example Brahmins would have to bathe if a Dalit shadow fell on them, would not eat food prepared by Dalits, and would not drink from the same wells as Dalits.

They are not allowed to defy caste system and punished otherwise. Although article 17 of the Indian Constitution banned untouchability in 1950, Dalits still suffer widespread discrimination and mistreatment. Local law enforcement personnel often refuse to document, investigate and respond adequately to Dalits’ complaints. Upper caste members often threaten and assault Dalits who dare protest against their mistreatment. The traditional practices of segregation between upper castes and Dalits are continuing in India.

Although India is obligated under several International Instruments to uphold Dalit rights, there is little enforcement to ensure that India meets its obligations under International Law. First, as a UN member state, India is bound to the provisions in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

The articles I & II of UDHR state that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” and that the human rights protected in the UDHR belong to everyone “ without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status”. India is violating its obligations under the UDHR as it has failed to protect Dalits against discrimination, degradation and violence.

Second, India has also failed to meet its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which it ratified on 10 April 1979. Not only does the ICCPR protect against discrimination of “any kind” including discrimination based on “social origin” but it also protects against torture, degrading treatment, arbitrary arrest, detention, and promotes equality in the courts and equal protection of the law. In failing to respect and ensure Dalits rights, India is not complying with ICCPR.

Third, India has failed to protect Dalit workers in accordance with its obligations under the International Labour Organization Convention (No 107) which it ratified on 29 September 1958. Under convention 107, India is obligated to protect the “institutions, persons, property and labour” of members of tribal or semi tribal populations.

Dalits murdered by Hindu Terrorist Organization Shev Sina

Finally, Dalit children, who are forced into bonded labour, or the practice of Devdasi, are protected under the provisions in the Convention of Rights of the Child of 1989 (CRC), which it ratified on 11 December 1992. In Article 32, the CRC protects against “Economic exploitation” and performance of “any work that is likely to be hazardous… "or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development”. Both the practices of child-bonded labour and the practice of Devdasi violate India’s commitment under the CRC. A recent violation was seen in the CommonWealth games preparatory setup where dozens of Dalit children lost their lives while working for $3 per day lifting stones and building material for the construction of games infrastructure.

Although democracy itself is a rubbish system to say the least, where people are just counted and not weighed morally. India, however, doesn't even fulfill the requirements of Democracy! It has failed to implement the laws, which provide protection against such caste discriminations. The Indian government has done nothing to remove caste prejudice and to provide justice to poor and powerless. Ironically, the USZ President during his visit to India only talked about human rights violations in Myanmar and asked India to play its role in ending these violations.


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