The cost of delay

Across the vast expanse of the country are strewn canals that won't hold water, ports that can't entertain ships, steel plants that can't produce enough and atomic energy projects which are quite powerless. The list of projects that have been delayed year after year - and at times decade after decade - is endless.

SFF: Sexy spooks

The scandal involves the nearly 500 female personnel of the SFF, all of Tibetan origin, who have been reduced to the position of sex objects and whose presence has turned the SFF headquarters at Chakrata, north of Dehra Dun, into more of a brothel than the nerve centre of a top secret organisation.

Uttar Pradesh police: In cold blood

The inhuman actions of the police in the Bhagalpur blindings have catapulted the country's 9-lakh strong law enforcement force into the harsh glare of public and media attention.

Pollution: Death of a village

Few places have experienced the dangers posed by pollution as starkly as the villagers of Nalavagulu in Karnataka who have been fighting an 11-year battle to protect themselves, from effluents discharged by a chemicals factory one kilometre away.

UPSEB: Riddled with corruption

Electricity boards all over the country seem to generate more controversy than power. Despite the stiff competition the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board stands out easily as the worst of a bad lot.

NCCF: Dubious dealings

Last April, addressing the delegates to the Cooperative Congress, Mrs Gandhi mentioned /en passant /that there was a tendency in some powerful groups to try and control the cooperative movement in the country.

Charanjit Singh: The Meridien controversy

Only the future will tell if Meridien Hotel turns out to be a pot of gold for Charanjit Singh or an embarrassment to his party besides being an exceptionally heavy millstone around his neck.

Tamil Nadu: The genie in the bottle

K.S. Ramamurthi, a former high court judge, heads a one-man commission which is probing the allotment of licences of 10 arrack blending units, and the selection of wholesale distributors of western style alcoholic beverages described as IMFL and arrack.

Tamil Nadu: Tortured to death

In Tamil Nadu, villagers and slum-dwellers shrink in fear when someone knocks on their door late at night. The callers might be a small posse of constables, come to arrest an Anthonyswamy or a Thanthoni for some petty crime or the other.

NAFED: The stink of scandal

National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited was buffeted around by MPs, cooperative movement leaders and senior government officials for large-scale bungling in its dealings at home and abroad.

Fake doctors: Slashing at sight

It was, quite literally, an eye-opener. As many as 23 innocent eye patients have been blinded by quacks who operated on them with razor blades at the Rajkhera, Lalpur and Kheroli villages of Dholpur district of Rajasthan.

Tihar Jail: Death in the dungeons

In reply to a question raised in a parliamentary committee recently about the number of deaths of prisoners in jails and police lock-ups, the home minister supplied the members with little or no information. However, investigations conducted in Delhi's Tihar Jail revealed that out of the 2,300-odd undertrials and convicts, 21 died in the jail's custody, mostly under suspicious circumstances. An in-depth report with case-studies.


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