Corruption - the only growth story.

The Additional Director General ( Medical ) based at the Indo Tibetan Border Police base hospital in south Delhi apparently spent Rs 500,000 on buying 2 split ACs, 2 LCD monitors, crockery items, candle stand, canvas paintings, sofa set, cabinet etc for his offices. This money was earmarked for purchasing HIV/AIDs awareness tools for teaching paramilitary soldiers. An internal inquiry is underway but we do not expect any results. A fire on 21 June starting on the fourth floor of the Mantralaya which houses Maharashtra government offices including those of the Chief and Deputy Chief Ministers has probably destroyed all files of the Adarsh housing scam in which defence land was given away to a builder to construct apartments. Several Congress politicians are implicated and Maharashtra government is Congress. Anca Maria Neascu, wife of arms dealer, Abhishek Verma met Mr Pallam, Minister of State for Defence, Shekhar Aggarwal, Secretary Defence Production and Vivek Rae, Director General Acquisition at their offices in South Block, New Delhi on 7 December 2011. Both Verma and Neascu are in jail for trying to get Switzerland's Rheinmetall Air Defense AG off the blacklist at the Ministry of Defence and Verma is an accused in the 2006 Naval War Room case. The Bofors case, the mother of all scams, was never solved. Sten Lindstrom, then head of police in Sweden said," The evidence against Ottavio Quattrocchi was conclusive. Through a front company called AE Services bribes paid by Bofors landed in Quattrocchi's account which he subsequently cleaned out...." Big Q, as he was known, is an Italian and was close to Congress. He was allowed to leave India on 29 July 1993 to avoid arrest. The Crime Branch has not found any evidence of misappropriation of funds in the accounts of an NGO run by Kiran Bedi. The case was filed against Bedi by Delhi Police because Bedi is a strong supporter of Anna Hazare who is campaigning for a strong Lok Pal to curb corruption in government. Delhi government is Congress as is the one at the Center. Meanwhile the Shunglu Committee report on the theft of funds at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi has disappeared. The rumor is that Rs 200 billion was enjoyed. Mr EK Bharat Bhushan was transferred from his post as chief of Directorate General of Civil Aviation on 10 July because he was about to publish a critical report on lack of safety at some airlines. He became chief in April 2011 after 14 pilots with forged licenses were found to be flying passenger planes. A file noting made by Mr Bhushan against an airline has disappeared. Seems to be a losing fight against entrenched criminals. It is a wonder that India still survives.