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Los culpables de la afición que más años lleva conmigo. Con ellos empecé...
y son también los culpables de mi actual falta de sueño :P
Ojingõh dapbap. While I admire Buckett for his moral decision to be
vegetarian, I thrive on squid. I fully acknowledge my culpability...but it's
their own damns fault for tasting so yum. SRSLY.
Please never banish me to the World Without Squid.
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not have waited. They are arguing that any delay in allocation would have affected GDP growth and generation.
of energy so crucial to the people and the economy. But if it was really so urgent why has no production begun.
even after years of allocation? If anything, the acquisition of mining rights has added to the economic muscle of the.
companies favoured, prominent among them are big players like Reliance, Tata, Mittal and Jindal, while contributing.
nothing to GDP and the national exchequer.Further, if production has not yet begun in the allocated blocks, why.
has these allocations not been cancelled so far?.
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If the CAG has erred in estimating, it has clearly underestimated the whole scam. The draft report estimate of 10.65 lakh.
crores has already been reduced drastically by keeping public sector companies out of purview. The CAG's final estimate.
of loss is pegged at Rs 1,85,591 crore in the allotment of 57 mines to private parties between 2006 and 2009. But going.
by the experience of auction of six mines in Madhya Pradesh by the Madhya Pradesh State Mining Corporation (MPSMC).
in November 2008, the CAG estimate is grossly conservative. The MPSMC auction - all the six mines auctioned have.
been underground, more expensive than the open-cast mines of Coal India Limited - has yielded 2.3-7.1 times the.
average amount the CAG has used in its report. In other words, the Coalgate is far bigger a scam than what it has been.
finally made to look like. Isn't the correct way of finding the most appropriate estimate of the coal scam will be to.
cancel the allocations and auction them through fresh competitive bidding?.
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Manmohan Singh is invoking federalism and constitutionalism to explain away the coal scam and his personal culpability.
and complicity in the whole thing. If the government stayed away from allocating coal blocks through competitive bidding.
simply because a few states did not agree to the idea, why does it not give up the idea of inviting FDI in multi-brand.
retail which is being objected to by many state governments? If the screening committee mechanism is so sacrosanct.
in Manmohan Singh's notion of constitutional democracy why does his government refuse to show due respect to a.
constitutionally empowered and mandated body like the CAG?.
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Role of the "Opposition": NDA and the Left Front's Double Speak.
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Today, we see the BJP-led NDA as well as the Left front trying to nail the UPA on the basis of the CAG report, for not.
introducing competitive bidding. However, the fact of the matter is that despite their so-called vocal "opposition".
now, NDA and Left Front's government's too opposed the competitive bidding system. The CAG report notes that.
State Government of Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan (BJP-ruled) and even West Bengal (then ruled by CPI(M)), opposed.
the policy of competitive bidding for captive coal blocks. Both the NDA and the Left came up with dubious arguments that.
competitive bidding would weaken federal independence in allocation of resources! Moreover, the BJP, who is right now.
objecting the most, allotted 35 blocks when they were in power. Other governments (including the Left Front government.
in West Bengal) allotted nine blocks to private companies..
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Two Other Less-Highlighted Scams.
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Along with the Coalgate report, two other CAG reports, no less worthy of public attention, were also tabled in Parliament.
on August 17. One of these reports estimates a net largesse of Rs 29,033 crore gifted by the government to Anil Ambani's.
Reliance Power in an Ultra Mega Power Project while the other report exposes how the Civil Aviation Ministry has handed.
over the international airport in Delhi on a platter to the GMR group, leasing out tens of acres of land for commercial.
exploitation at a paltry annual rate of Rs 100 per acre and allowing it to earn a projected revenue of Rs 88,337 crore over.
a lease period of sixty years on the basis of an equity contribution of sheer Rs 2,450 crore..
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Challenges Before Democracy.
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The CAG reports corroborate with great details not only the mega corruption that is thriving as a direct outcome of the.
ongoing pro-corporate pro-imperialist policies of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, but also the systematic.
subversion of the constitutional basis of Indian democracy. The democratic paradigm of government of the people, for.
the people and by the people has been reduced to government of the corporates, for the corporates, by the corporates..
Crony capitalism subverts popular democracy and constitutional procedures at every step with the help of its.
kitchen cabinet. The demand for resignation of Manmohan Singh must therefore be raised as an integral part of.
the bigger battle for reorientation of India's policies and rejection of the growing nexus between big business.
and power politics..
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Time To Raise Issues Beyond the Criteria of CAG.
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As we push for action on all those responsible for this massive scam, it is therefore important to go beyond the strict.
parameters of the CAG report. It's true that allocation through competitive bidding can make the process more fair and.
transparent but it too can never recover the WHOLE LONG RUN LOSS inherent in shift of "command and control".
over `stock' of natural reserves from public to private companies. The point would be further clear when one reads.
observation in CAG report that, "A part of this financial gain (windfall profit accruing to private companies) could have.
been tapped by the government by taking timely decision on competitive bidding of allocation of coal blocks." Thus only.
a `part' can be recouped by the process of competitive bidding..
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In contrast, government's retaining control over coal reserves would have enabled it to determine how and at what rate.
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it should be exploited according to the requirement in any given period. Handing over captive coal blocks for private.
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benefit implies that they would produce according to the whims of the increasingly speculative and globalised `market'.
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and capital! Thus a policy of competitive bidding may reduce the incidence of cronyism, but we need to reject.
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the very rationale of handing over control of exhaustible natural and mining resources to private profiteering.
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Akbar, President, AISA, JNU Piyush, Vice-President,.AISA,JNU.
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