Thursday, December 24, 2009

Development, too, has been on Nitish’s priority list

Development, too, has been on Nitish’s priority list. The NDA government has built and repaired thousands of kilometres of roads and hundreds of bridges all across the state. “Earlier it used to take more than three hours to reach Patna from Arrah, which is just 60 km away. Now it takes just an hour because the road has been widened and re-laid,” says Vijay Manjul, an Arrah restaurant owner.

"If I have not brought the moon for the people of Bihar, I have certainly made Bihar a place where they can live and pursue their vocation fearlessly. This is my biggest achievement," Nitish said while releasing the progress report on his government’s four years in power. He completed four years in office on November 24, 2009.

The RJD-LJP combine has charged the Nitish government with corruption, misrule and criminalisation of power. "The people of the state have declared that the Nitish government has failed on all fronts," state RJD president Abdul Bari Siddiqui said while talking to TSI from Patna.

The RJD has asserted that reports of the CAG have exposed the hollowness of the claim of good governance. "Corruption has surfaced in most of the state's departments and the CM has failed to rein it in," RJD general secretary Ram Kripal Yadav told TSI. The RJD has released a “chargesheet” against the government.

Ram Kripal said the CM had told the Assembly that there would be more than 1,44,000 crore rupees of investment in the state, but there is nothing on the ground. The NCP has also released a “Black Paper” against the NDA government chastising it for widespread corruption and misrule. NCP leader Tariq Anwar has said that Nitish Kumar has been a complete failure as chief minister.

Countering the Opposition, the CM asserts that Bihar is poised to be one of the leading states in India. “The central government and other state governments have not only applauded some of the innovative schemes started by us but have adopted them as well,” Nitish says.

The Bihar government has been lauded by none other than the Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who publicly said the state had made progress in the infrastructure, education and health sectors in the past four years. If Bihar kept up the momentum, it would achieve 8-9 per cent economic growth, he added.

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IIPM Editorial, 2009


An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Major Chetna Sharma

Every now and then, we read in magazines and newspapers about the toughest biking roads. It would immediately remind the readers of the danger-fraught Leh-Manali road. Major Chetna Sharma, the mother of a four year old and wife of an Army officer, successfully led a motorcycle expedition team on the same precarious route with fourteen other male colleagues. She is a serving officer of the Corp of Signals of the Indian Army. For her, duty comes first.

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IIPM Editorial, 2009


An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Born on 26/11 - Freelance journalist, bangalore

TSI Profiles some Indians whose birthday last year was engulfed by death and destruction

Uday sangli

Freelance journalist, bangalore


Actually, I am not really into celebrating my birthday. I've never done it. I have no plans to celebrate it this year either. This day will be like another day for me.

On the fateful day last year, I was busy covering a rally on “world peace” at Basaveshwara Circle in Bangalore. The rally had been organised by the Art of Living Foundation. The protest was against the accusation that that the Art of Living Foundation had harboured a terrorist.

Volunteers from Art of Living Foundation were on a candlelight vigil to register their protest against what they called was an attempt to vilify them. In a tragic coincidence, the horrific terror attack on Mumbai occurred even as the Bangalore rally was on. It obviously took us all by surprise. The sense of shock and grief was palpable.

A year has gone by since that terrible day. What I fail to understand is that even after an entire year, Kasab, the only culprit detained, has not been convicted. Instead the man's day to day activities in prison continue to rake up various issues.

Sadly, Kasab is not the first terrorist that India is looking after like a ‘guest’; Afzal Guru and many other terror suspects have been receiving the same sort of VIP treatment from the Indian government. really, this can happen only in India and everybody knows the politics behind it. So I don’t have any hope that India will ever be able to take tough measures to weed out the threat of terrorism from our midst.

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IIPM Editorial, 2009

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative


Tuesday, December 01, 2009

IIPM News - Bahujan sangharsh Party

For a change, it is a party and not an individual. Bahujan Sangharsh Party (Kanshi Ram) is asking for a CBI probe into the death of BSP founder Kanshi Ram. These people are on protest since May 10, 2006. Its president is Dalbara Singh, brother of Kanshi Ram. The party maintains that Kanshi Ram did not die a natural death but was murdered. Sudhanshu Kumar has sat on protest for more than 2 years now. Other office bearers and workers also join the struggle at regular intervals. We met one Tirath Singh, national vice-president of the party. He insists that he has written several letters to the President and the PM but no reply has ever come. So when will this end? Bang comes Tirath Singh’s retort: “Till the time we have his killers hanged.”
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IIPM Editorial, 2009


An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative