Home
Publications
Search
Register
Log inMaharashtra: BJP Chaddis are building a Shivaji statue that will cost the tax payer Rs 3,600 crores
Page 1 of 1
Maharashtra: BJP Chaddis are building a Shivaji statue that will cost the tax payer Rs 3,600 crores
by Guest Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:01 am
It could pay for a micro-irrigation programme to bring water to thousands of farmers over two years; pay for new rural roads seven times over; electricity projects five times over; restore 300 medieval forts in Maharashtra.
But the Maharashtra government, on October 26, started work on the world’s tallest statue – of medieval Maratha monarch Shivaji – off Mumbai’s coast and intends to spend Rs 3,600 crore, at current estimates. Since it was first conceived 12 years ago, the budget for Shivaji’s statue has risen 35 times.
The state government bypassed legal procedure by getting an exemptionon February 5, 2015, from conducting public hearings on the statue’s construction – local fishermen say it will affect their fishing grounds, and the island – from the Union Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change.
http://scroll.in/article/821024/all-that-maharashtra-could-have-done-with-the-money-being-spent-on-shivajis-statue
But the Maharashtra government, on October 26, started work on the world’s tallest statue – of medieval Maratha monarch Shivaji – off Mumbai’s coast and intends to spend Rs 3,600 crore, at current estimates. Since it was first conceived 12 years ago, the budget for Shivaji’s statue has risen 35 times.
The state government bypassed legal procedure by getting an exemptionon February 5, 2015, from conducting public hearings on the statue’s construction – local fishermen say it will affect their fishing grounds, and the island – from the Union Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change.
http://scroll.in/article/821024/all-that-maharashtra-could-have-done-with-the-money-being-spent-on-shivajis-statue
Guest- Guest
Similar topics» Poor in India don't have food to eat, Narendra Modi prefers building Shivaji statue costing Rs 3,600 crores to tax payer
» Narendra Modi to build a memorial for Shivaji which will cost the tax payer Rs 2,000 crores
» Narendra Modi sanctions Rs 2,979 crores of tax payer money for Sardar Patel statue
» Misplaced Priorities: Instead of more schools and hospitals, India will spend Rs 3,600 crores (US $530 million) on Shivaji statue
» Poor in India don't have food to eat, Narendra Modi prefers building Sardar Patel statue costing Rs 3,000 crores
» Narendra Modi to build a memorial for Shivaji which will cost the tax payer Rs 2,000 crores
» Narendra Modi sanctions Rs 2,979 crores of tax payer money for Sardar Patel statue
» Misplaced Priorities: Instead of more schools and hospitals, India will spend Rs 3,600 crores (US $530 million) on Shivaji statue
» Poor in India don't have food to eat, Narendra Modi prefers building Sardar Patel statue costing Rs 3,000 crores
Page 1 of 1
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum|
|
|