[nukkad] We failed as a country???

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Time and again we prove to the world, how inhumane we and our politicians
can be. More people died and more people will die not because of an
external enemy but because of our internal enemies like corrupt
beaurocrats,Polititians with out any human values.
Found this information in a news letter and wanted to share my anguish with
the fellow nukkies.

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  Carcasses may cause epidemic (HT)

   9000 diarrhoeal cases in Orissa (FPJ)

    More than two lakh decomposed animal carcasses may lead to severe
    epidemic in Jagatsinghpur district and adjoining areas.

    According to the latest figures, more than 13 lakh houses were damaged
    in the super cyclone of October 29.

 Congress sticks to Gamang (AA)

    The Congress on Monday ruled out replacing Orissa chief minister
    Giridhar Gamang for his alleged failure to tackle the post-cyclone
    situation in Orissa.

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            I N D I A  V O T E S   --  http://www.indiavotes.com

      HAVE THE STATE & CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FAILED THE PEOPLE OF ORISSA?

          Latest Results and some of readers messsages given below

   The century's worst cyclone that hit Orissa coast on October 29, left
   a trail of destruction affecting almost fifty per cent of the state's
   population. Over 10000 people have been killed, millions rendered
   homeless, standing crops and cattle destroyed, roads, communication
   network, power, electricity and other installations damaged by the
   super-cyclone.

   Relief amounts have been announced early, however, more than two weeks
   later, accurate information on the extent of the loss is still being
   assessed.

   The bureaucratic delays by the local administration failed to provide
   even the minimum relief to the cyclone-affected people. Demands have
   been made that the total responsibility for relief and rehabilitation
   be handed over to the armed forces, who have been doing a commendable
   relief work under trying conditions.

   As the battle on whether or not this should be declared a "national
   calamity," pre-occupies the state's political class and the country's
   opposition party, both the ruling and opposition have completely
   failed the people of Orissa. Orissa chief minister Giridhar Gamang has
   sought a Central assistance of Rs 10,000 crore for relief and
   rehabilitation in cyclone-ravaged areas of the state. Does the
   bureaucratic machinary in the state have any clue on how such a sum
   will br utilised to actually make a difference to the people?

   According to a report in India Today, an estimated 13,000 tonnes of
   food, close to 40 per cent of what the Centre has pumped into the
   state, is yet to be distributed.

   The Centre was a meek spectator watching the completely failure of the
   state's relief operations and took over two weeks to announce a
   task-force to co-ordinate the relief operations. The assistance
   offered by various International voluntary organisations was possibly
   turned down with an eye to retain the muscular "nuclear-power" image
   and the embedded ability to manage it own affairs.

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    SOME OF THE READERS MESSAGES TO THIS OPINION POLL FOLLOW GIVEN BELOW:

   19: Dr. Vinod Nair, USA: India has demonstrated to the world that it is
   a nation without human values, where people are abused at every level.
   Child abuse, woman abuse, employee abuse are all accepted way of
   life. India has become a barbaric society where only money rules.
   India has lost all its godly values. Animosity is what India is all
   about. Indian government is the most corrupt in the world. No country,
   including Africa can stoop so low and watch thousands die. If there is
   hell on earth it is in India. A nation which brags of nuclear weapon
   for mass destruction puts feeding its starving millions or the welfare
   of millions stricken with aids on the lowest priority list has no
   right to be claiming a super power status at the UN. (November 16,
   01:08 IST)

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   18: Rajnikant Sahoo, USA: Orissa coast is highly vulnerable for natural
   calamities. Every year, it is affected by Cyclone, Flood and all kind
   of natural fury. Neither State nor Central Government have ever
   thought anything concrete in this direction. As a result, people of
   Orissa coast have left to the mercy of nature and death. Government
   should open at least one double storied building (say School) to be
   used for community leaving during calamities. A powerful calamity
   detection system and system to make people aware of oncoming calamity
   is highly solicited. May God Help Orissa. (November 16, 00:40 IST)

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   17: Mihir Das, USA: why to bother , it is the poor innocent people who
   are the victim all the time not the politicians. (November 15, 23:59
   IST)

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   16: Dr. Pranab K. Patra, India: Orissa's present state government has
   totally failed so as our previous governments. It is frustrating to
   have such corrupted bureaucrats. The system has to be completely
   changed or else no future for this poorest of the poor state.
   (November 15, 23:56 IST)

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   15: J.P., USA: These results (death toll in Orissa) did not surprise me
   at all. Sorry! if I am sounding nasty. This gives us a good measure of
   where people stand in the eyes of our government. I have heard people
   saying 'one has to look at the positive things rather than being
   pessimistic about the happenings'. One can take only so much. It is a
   gross failure of the governments in providing adequate facilities /
   shelters to the poor that had lead to this mass destruction. It
   doesn't matter what government it is in the center and in the state,
   the fate of the people of this country will be like this only, until
   some one, who is really capable of cleaning our current political
   trend shows up. In order to facilitate that from happening, we (at
   least the educated ones) should turn up the heat on and have the
   government feel responsible for their misdeeds. Instead of struggling
   for power let's ask them to provide the basic infrastructure to build
   a strong nation. I know many eye brows will rise to the following
   statement, I'm about to make. Don't you think we may need a Musharif
   in India too?. I guess what I meant by that is 'Dictatorship's
   communist govt. like the one in China who can put an end to this on
   going chaos in India. I know some one can say 'Hey! he / they is / are
   an Indian(s) too'. I agree with that but how can we let some one else
   rule us. Enough of the British colonial ship, we are paying for that
   till now. Our politicians, basically lack vision to wards a better
   India. Of course quality comes from a good educational and family
   background. 'Garbage in , Garbage out'. I wish we all could do some
   thing about it. (November 15, 23:34 IST)

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   14: Adi Malla, USA: State and Central governments have miserably failed
   in protecting Orissa people from severe cyclone. I don't expect our
   politicians to learn lessons from this. (November 15, 23:20 IST)

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   13: Sushant Mishra, USA: I am an Oriya and I have lived in Orissa most
   of my life.The supercyclone which is an act of God couldn't have
   happened to any other place but Orissa which is the least developed
   place of a so called developing Nation. Since the past so many years
   the people of Orissa dependented heavily on the State and
   Center.Instead of helping them,they did the opposite,exploitation.The
   politician and the bureaucratic of our Nation an the State have only
   looted the States vast resources.What the State was 50years ago is the
   same at present.The recent chaos during the aftermath of the
   destruction is nothing surprising.Orissa has witnessed this always
   during good and bad times.Even if you blame the State and the Center
   nothing much will happen.The people should realise that enough is
   enough.They should rise and start believing in themselves that they
   can do of their own.The day they realise this things are bound to
   change.If they don't the story will be the same. Sushant Mishra
   (November 15, 23:10 IST)

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   12: Raghunandan N Kanathur, USA: In a nation, which is not organized, it
   is difficult to provide relief immediately. For example, every citizen
   of india is not provided with a unique number. If one is provided with
   a number under a foolproof system which ensure that a citizen cannot
   obtain two numbers, like capturing the finger print in a database and
   ensuring a unique number per person, will help identifying who has
   incurred how much loss. In the existing system, there may be people
   who are not affected and will still claim compensation. We do need a
   better system to manage people. This will help not only in providing
   relief but also in a better tax collection system. (November 15, 23:10
   IST)

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   11: Chittaranjan Ray, USA: It is extremely sad to talk about it when I
   am from the Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa. Over the years,
   corruption and mismanagement bankrupted the state. The influential
   pocketed the money from the state and federal assistance programs. The
   emphasis has been on mega projects while the small-scale industries
   have been neglected. Working capital and proper guidance are
   necessary. The state will be the 26th on poverty. I am hoping the
   state in coordination with local and NRI experts devise a plan so that
   they can make up this loss at an accelerated rate. (November 15, 22:52
   IST)

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   10: Ajatha Sathru, USA: Blame the system, it has to be reformed..
   -Ajatha Sathru (November 15, 21:49 IST)

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   9: Murthy, USA: Its very sad that the intensity of the cyclone is very
   high and we don't have the technology to anticipate the intensity. The
   real sad part is we failed to reach the poor/suffering who lost
   everything and now fighting with epidemics.. This is disgusting and
   shows the poor administration and politics. Its still miserable that
   we refused to take the help of the international organisations. No
   sufferer can ever forgive this if he is aware of what he had lost by
   this. With a sad note, Indian (November 15, 21:44 IST)

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   8: Niladri, USA: Even though cyclone warning government failed to
   evacuate people from coastal areas. Relief and reconstruction is
   unplanned. Even after 1971 cyclone's experience cyclone proof houses
   were not built. Politician and bureaucrats are corrupt. They lack
   vision to manage and build a state. Center's apathy to Orissa state
   govt. was shown by not declaring the disaster as national calamity.
   Innocent people are victim of center state politics. There should be
   revolution in the state and against central government. Of course
   state & central government failed the people of Orissa (November 15,
   21:43 IST)

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   7: MUTHU, TAMIL NADU: Yes, Government has failed to alert people on
   time. when they know it is going to be 350KM/Hr, they should
   compulsory GOVT should evacuated people from the place. More over
   for Orissa and Andhra Pradesh needs some sophisticated communication
   methods like HAM RADIO, or other type of wireless system and not too
   depend on our telephone system, We all very well know how our
   telephone will function in normal days. So the bottom line is BOTH THE
   STATE AND CENTRAL AND METEROLOGICAL PEOPLE SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR THIS
   DISASTER IN ORISSA. (November 15, 21:42 IST)

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   6: Sanjeev Rao: Both the State and the Central Governments have failed
   to do their duties effectively. I think if enough precautions had been
   taken the loss might have been much less. Infact the State
   administration did not seem to gauge the ferocity of the cyclone and
   failed to evacuate the people in the coastal areas (November 15, 21:36
   IST)

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   5: Debiprasad Swain, India: Of course! We have a state govt. who does
   not want what do to and we have a prime minister who does not show
   whole hearted empathy with people of Orissa, because he thinks its
   chief-minister threw him out of office the last time. (November 15,
   21:04 IST)

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   4: Debi Prasad Pati, India: Our Leaders know how to deal with more
   elections in one year but not how to tackle a natural calamity which
   is devastating in nature like what happened in Orissa recently.Every
   one sees its own advantage,which is very unfortunate. (November 15,
   19:47 IST)

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   3: Dr.Dayal, Taiwan: Its not actually failure but lack of sensitivity
   and poor information network.`Go as you like` attitude is always there
   with govt. officials which is ofcourse not found in armed force
   personnels and thats why a cry for their presence in such acute
   needs.Training matters a lot.Media report was frequent on incoming
   threat but still so called responsible people were sleeping.....this
   is the tale of each one of us which needs special attention .....but
   how?...remains to be decided by our scholars and planners....Dr.Dayal
   (November 15, 19:23 IST)

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   2: Partha, USA: Politicizing with our misery, obstruction to relief,
   development etc. should be dealt with most gravity with No tolerance.
   I get angry to the tune of wishing these stupids to be thrown at the
   mouth of such cyclonic tidal wave. ..Partha (November 15, 18:37 IST)

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   INFORMATION TO MAKE DONATIONS:

   Cheques / Money Orders should be drawn in favor of "Prime Minister's
   Relief Fund" and can be sent to any one of the following addresses:

    Prime Minister's Relief Fund
    Embassy of India
    Attn: Head of Chancery
    2107 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
    Washington, DC 20008

 (OR)

    Prime Minister's Relief Fund
    Prime Minister's Office
    South Block, New Delhi 110011
    India

     For more information on cyclone damage, relief efforts
       including relief by non-governmental organizations
          please check the Indian Embassy website at
        http://www.indianembassy.org/new/cyclone_fund1.htm




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