A statue however big it is, even if is built on the sea, to cost 3,600 crores is unbelievable. Who are the forces which are getting cuts? What is the total value of corruption in the name of Shivaji?
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:46 AM, KP Sasi <[email protected]> wrote: > Official and unofficial experts on Coastal Regulation Zone Notification > (CRZ), please enlighten me. Isn’t the proposed statue of Shivaji in the sea > going to be a major violation of CRZ norms? > This is going to be the world’s tallest statue. The height will be 192 > metres. Hence it would be taller than the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai > Patel in Gujarat. > The idea about the statue first emerged in 1980. In 2004, the budget was > around Rs 100 crore, which jumped to Rs 700 crore in 2009, Rs 1,400 crore > in 2013 and Rs 3,600 crore in 2016. > Maharashtra state is boiling with thousands of malnutrition deaths among > Adivasis. Can’t this money be used to prevent such deaths? Can’t this money > be used to provide free education and free health care for the needy? Rs. > 3600 crores could pay for a micro-irrigation programme to bring water to > thousands of farmers over two years. It can prevent farmers' suicides. Will > Shavaji be angry if you do that? > The project has been opposed both by the fishing community and the > environmentalists, since the effort would disrupt marine life and ecology > of the Arabian Sea. But the real question is: What are your priorities in > Governance? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
