On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[email protected]> wrote:

> The IL&FS-led project has been floundering in part because of the
> nature of the tenders.
>


This is akin to saying that the river is polluted because of the nature of
the chemicals being dumped into it. What would reasonable people do, dump
cleaner chemicals, or avoid dumping chemicals at all (within reason, being
reasonable people)?

Having said which, yes, it is true that costs are much lower nowadays, and
less infrastructure is needed as well. These are good points to consider
when devising more effective tactics for local infrastructure
developers/development, which is, imho, the only valuable way to ensure
local buy-in and widespread dissemination of the benefits, which build on
information sharing.

The IL&FS plan banks upon future money savings from the use of government
'services' by end-users, which is not far from the kind of philosophy that
argues that 'piracy' destroys future revenue flows, and then enumerates
those mythical flows. It doesn't take higher education to see the flaw in
that argument.

-- 
Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
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