So Indian government is planning a new parliament and a central secretariat building! "The new building will symbolize new India's aspirations", quipped Biman Patel, whose architectural firm has been given the job of designing the new buildings. Do you know that they designed the Sabarmati river front, the BJP head quarters as well? No! No! I'm not smelling anything here. Just putting out facts! Yet that is for another day.
So the total cost for the design stage is a measly 229.75 crores! A humongous 3% of the overall budget allocated for the project. Are you bad at math? I will do the calculation for you. Just 7500 crores approximately is the total money going to be spent on the new buildings. So the parliamentarians could sit nicely and debate. Of course they walk out often coz there is not much space there to sit now.
Just to put things in perspective, the central government spends around 7400 crores on policing Delhi every year. Do you know the new health insurance scheme of the prime minister? It includes 100 million families! The scheme is allotted 6400 crores last year. Just in case you did not know, the Indian government gave Rs.400 crores to build 'world class institutions' this year.
So how does it matter? For you and for me?
I was not working for a year and so did not pay any tax. So do I have the right to complain? Well, let me just put out facts for the learned working middle class who end up reading me rather than complain.
Most of you paid 20% of your salary to the government of India! So basically, 20% of your time spent in your offices is for the GOI. So you actually worked the entire months of January, February and a few days of March without getting any payment for that.
Well, all of you who worked hard for nearly two and half months without getting a pay for, you would have been called slaves in the yesteryear. We are called tax payers in the modern world. And what did you slave this year for? For the parliamentarians to sit in aspirational new India's modern building and debate! I promise they won't walk out anymore. They will have enough place to stay back after all!
So the total cost for the design stage is a measly 229.75 crores! A humongous 3% of the overall budget allocated for the project. Are you bad at math? I will do the calculation for you. Just 7500 crores approximately is the total money going to be spent on the new buildings. So the parliamentarians could sit nicely and debate. Of course they walk out often coz there is not much space there to sit now.
Just to put things in perspective, the central government spends around 7400 crores on policing Delhi every year. Do you know the new health insurance scheme of the prime minister? It includes 100 million families! The scheme is allotted 6400 crores last year. Just in case you did not know, the Indian government gave Rs.400 crores to build 'world class institutions' this year.
So how does it matter? For you and for me?
I was not working for a year and so did not pay any tax. So do I have the right to complain? Well, let me just put out facts for the learned working middle class who end up reading me rather than complain.
Most of you paid 20% of your salary to the government of India! So basically, 20% of your time spent in your offices is for the GOI. So you actually worked the entire months of January, February and a few days of March without getting any payment for that.
Well, all of you who worked hard for nearly two and half months without getting a pay for, you would have been called slaves in the yesteryear. We are called tax payers in the modern world. And what did you slave this year for? For the parliamentarians to sit in aspirational new India's modern building and debate! I promise they won't walk out anymore. They will have enough place to stay back after all!
