Corruption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G_spectrum_scam

Well, it will not be fair to compare a petty crime with 2G scam. However, I could not resist doing the math after a conductor in BMTC bus did not give me ticket even after I asked him for the same.

I was coming from New Thippasandra to G M Palaya after some shoping. My wife was also with me. I gave twenty rupees to the conductor. He gave me Rs. 10. But, he did not give me a ticket even after I asked him. He murmered something and walked away.

Then I did this math.

Total number of buses BMTC has = 6122

Assumptions: Each bus makes 8 trips per day and 10% of bus conductors does this to minimum of 5 guys per trip and average amount is Rs. 10.

Loss to BMTC per day = 8 trips * 600 (10% of 6k) * 5 persons * Rs. 10 = 400 * 600 = 2,40,000

Assuming this happens 300 days per year, total loss per year = 240000*300= Rs. 72 million

Assume this happens in 5 cities in India. Loss =Rs.  3.5 crore per year

That is, if we take 1 department and just 5 cities, and see the loss due to such petty corruption, that alone comes close to 3.5 crores. Now how many such departments do we have? RTOs, Government medical colleges, police, Town planning, Excise… I am sure there must be hundreds of them where the amount must be much bigger than Rs. 10. So, if I put a very moderate amount of Rs. 1C per dept per city and assume that there are 20 such departments in a city and if we just sum it up for 43 cities in India where the population is more than 1 million, the amount can easily be = 1C * 20 * 43 ~= 860C per year.

Well, no wonder why to ‘rule them all’ our rulers need to steal in lakhs of crores :;

(Well, I would still say punish Raja’s of corruption while leaving alone the small guys. I would even suggest that petty corruption should be accepted as a way of wealth distribution in a country like India :; )

Mata amritanandamayi

Here is an example of the services done by the “mother” for the society.

For those who do not understand Malayalam, here is the important points from the above page.

1. The fees for the BDS seat in Amrita institute is 3 times the fees levied in any other private institution in Kerala

2. They do not share any seats with government and conduct their of entrance exams

3. Earlier they used to share seats with government. However, after becoming deemed varsity, they stopped doing so.

4. They claim that state government rules are not applicable for them

5. When contact, Principal told that he does not know about any donation as that is fully controlled by management

I just wonder what happened to the efforts by Govt. of India to de-recognize a large number of “deemed” universities!

Ramdev and Manmohan

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2078925.ece

I don’t know who is correct and who is wrong. But, what happened in Delhi yesterday is unfortunate. This brings back the fears of another emergency. Is it going to be India after Egypt, Lebanon and Yemen? I think Government should act wisely to avoid any such crisis and take everyone in confidence at this juncture.

Concern!

“Our leader Sonia Gandhi ji is concerned because Kanimozhi being a woman is in jail and it is a matter of concern and in fact one can’t do anything,” Azad said.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/not-appropriate-to-call-on-sonia-when-kanimozhi-in-jail-karunanidhi-108159

I am very much concerned about Soniaji!. There must be hundreds of such women in Jails and Ms. Gandhi might not have had peace of mind even for a moment thinking about all of them

IPL & BBMP

Today’s Hindu had this news.

“No IPL ticket for BBMP councillors”

“…. On Monday Mayor S. K. Nataraj repotedly sent a letter to KSCA asking for their for their share of 250 passes…”

However KSCA informed BBMP that they have no control over it and passes etc are controlled by franchise owners!

“….KSCA’s move has rilled the councillors who pointed out that the BBMP does not even collect advertisement tax from stadium authorities”

What should we say about this? Some franchises are making money and BBMP is causing a loss to public exchequer by allowing tax benefits to them. Inturn, they expect to be rewared by free passes to councillors! It was just last year a PIL was filled in Mumbai HC which caused the govt there to take a decision that they will impose taxes on IPL from next year (2011) onwards. Following that, HC has dismissed the PIL. I feel, our politicians have a short memory and they don’t read news papers. The only possible solution to this is that we the citizen of this nation develop good memory that lasts minimum 5 years.

The rigorous imprisonment!

http://www.mathrubhumi.com/story.php?id=165816

A former minister in kerala was sentenced for 1 year rigorous imprisonment by Supreme court. Instead of RI, he is put in a hospital room with attached bath, food from home etc. Now, he is on hunger strike to get AC and mosquito net!

Are there any tooth to be extracted?

Well, my sister has to attend a practical exam. She is a dental student. Everyone who has to attend the exam should go with the patients. Now, there are about 40 students and there is another college nearby who is also having similar exams. So, it’s about 80 students trying to find patients. There are totally 4 subjects and each subject needs two patients each (One is to be kept as back-up in case the other one does not turn up).

Now, lets look at the math:

2 colleges * 40 students * 4 subjects * 2 patients per subject = 640!

Reminded me of the story that one professor once told in the class. We were late for the class as the teacher of the previous hour took a little more time than he should have. The prof who was waiting told this “There was nobody here when I came. It made me think about the scientists of ancient days who used to go out on streets and request passer-by to buy their science”.

Well, the statistics guys say we don’t have enough doctors! I say, we don’t have enough patients