Sunday, October 02, 2011

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has demanded Rs 100,000 from owners of apartments in housing societies because it has no money. It has also decided to levy taxes on social structures such as guard houses, swimming pools and community centers, essential for a healthy society, inside these societies. HT, October 2. The Delhi government has been increasing taxes on every service in the city no matter how poor they are. Electricity charges are becoming unaffordable. The reason for the desperate finances stem from the gigantic larceny that took place during the Commonwealth Games. Citizens of Delhi are having to pay for the loot by thieving civil servants and criminal politicians. However, there is money for half page ads in every newspaper with photos of Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Mr Manmohan Singh and the minister in charge of the relevant ministry publishing the ads with public money. Clearly political advertisement of the dirtiest kind. The answer to the financial problems of the MCD is simple. Get rid of the MCD, the NDMC and the state government of Delhi. Vast sums of money will be saved on the salaries of legions of useless, parasitic civil servants and the expenses of criminal politicians and even more on bribes that we have to pay. Delhi can be run by a small number of elected officials who will outsource public services and impose strict quality control and impose severe fines for negligence of service. In fact, get rid of all state governments and municipalities and divide the country into 700 districts which will be run by the people living there who will answer to there communities. First, there was Bapu. Now there is the Capo. And the Wide Receiver.

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