In his letter to the editor [Herald 22 April] 'In the name of the aam aadmi' Orlando da Silva, while opposing huge projects such as the sea link; Ravindra Bhavans etc. asks "whether any economic / viability / urgency study is conducted before undertaking such huge projects."
I fear Mr Dias has not quite spotted the scam. It's doubtful whether these fanciful projects will ever see the light of day. But when the estimated cost of the projects runs into hundreds or even thousands of crores of rupees, how many crores will a study cost, to prove what, any schoolboy can tell, is uneconomical, non-viable and infeasible? Get it? Ah what wondrous ways our politicos and babus can dream up to make moolah!! Verily the Poet wrote of our suffering tax-payers relationship towards them: The trembling public purses / Interminably feed / But never truly satiate / Their bottomless greed. Augusto Pinto -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal, Moira, Bardez, Goa, India E pinto...@gmail.com or ypinto...@yahoo.co.in P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350
