Is there any hope left?

After one heavy rain shower last week large parts of Delhi were under water. A bus got submerged under Minto Bridge, which is a route to New Delhi station. This nonsense repeats itself year after year. Seems that the High Court in Delhi set up a panel to oversee cleaning of drains this year but as usual nothing has been done. In response to a Public Interest Litigation filed by a NGO, Nyaya the Court asked," We are not interested in reports....what are you going to do? Will we continue to rot in Delhi?" Delhi has 3 municipal corporations, known as chorporation in Kolkata, one state government and the central government. This means more scoundrels with their snouts in the trough. Delhi PWD Minister, Raj Kumar Chauhan said," The PWD took the work of de-silting all drains as a challenge and it was accomplished. The corporations have proved to be lethargic and their response has been lukewarm. They are more interested in getting funds from the city government and misappropriating them." However, charges for parking and electricity are set to rise. Meanwhile, only a few days after the death of one of CBI's old friends, Ottavio Quattrocchi the CBI was back to its games when it wanted to drop all charges of corruption against Mr Vincent George, who is an aide to Mrs Sonia Gandhi. The CBI had alleged that Mr George had amassed huge wealth after 1990, the same year that it registered the complaint in the Bofors case. It found that Mr George had commercial and residential properties in posh areas of South Delhi, properties in Bangalore, Chennai, Kerala and agricultural land outside Delhi, as well as Rs 15 million in bank accounts. TOI, 25 July. Clearly, whatever Mr George does is highly lucrative. In an example of the Congress wasting taxpayer money the Haryana government has been paying compensation to farmers whose crops were ruined by heavy rains in 2011. Farmers pay no taxes, are given cheap or free electricity and can earn over Rs 200 per day under the NREGA scheme without doing a stroke of work. We understand that many farmers survive on outputs of tiny farms, the result of repeated divisions as a result of producing too many children, but there are very rich farmers, especially politicians, who pay not a penny in taxes. At the very least farmers should be made to pay insurance premiums in good years which can then recompense them in bad years. Thankfully, they have made a hash of it and have sent out cheques for Rs 2 and 3 which farmers are refusing to encash. No doubt politicians and civil servants will be enjoying. Is there any hope for us?