Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading for Failure

Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by puranjay on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:26AM (#14408918)

Massive corruption at all levels.

I'll give you an example: the Delhi municipal corporation, the local body responsible for all civil work in the country's capital, has more employees than the Indian Air Force.

A municipal body has more employees than the country's entire Air Force.

Of these, nearly half of employees are "ghost" employees. They don't exist except on paper. Their wages go into the pockets of the local politicians and employees.

India's corruption is mind boggling.

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Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by snerbles on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:38AM (#14410800)

To be fair, New York City also has more municipal employees than the United States Air Force has active-duty personnel.

461,500 local NYC government employees - https://www.labor.ny.gov/stats/cesemp.asp

456,452 USAF personnel (315,725 AD airmen, 140,727 civilian employees) - http://www.afpc.af.mil/Air-Force-Demographics/

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Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by fractalb on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:32AM (#14409185)

Corruption creates problems, but whining about it doesn't solve any. This open defecation habit hasn't been born out of corruption. It's been there for ages. Corruption does come in the way of solving the problem, if at all there are any such initiatives.

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Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by throwaway27282 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:38AM (#14409885)

Once the anti-national Supreme Court accedes to making Aadhar mandatory, India will be corruption free. Just you wait. /s

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