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Every february of a financial year we have a comedy show in the name of railway budget. This ritual has become a show to prove that the government and more particularly the railway minster is one among the poor and downtrodden. He/she always cares for the poor. The railways has now become an instrument of appeasement. I still regret the fact the British left India. They really were visionaries in every aspect. Be it the railways, seaways and airports they did a marvelous job. Infact our politicians have looted far more what the British stole from India. The railway ministry has defacto been marked to either the state of Bihar/Westbengal. How else can u justify the fact that the railway ministers are only from these two states for the past 10 years. The railway budget is a real shame on this country and its intellectual thinking. The southern states are the worst affected due to this poor leadership. The successive governments need to share the blame for this thinking. In all the succe

Come February, the buzzword is ‘budget’. Even if the common man is least bothered, the English media keeps hyping it up. They want people to send feelers to our Finance Minister. It looks as if though u ask god a wish and he immediately grant the same to u. The aam admi very well knows that he is always the soft target and no one is really interested on him. The main beneficiaries are going to be the capitalists, hoarders, stock brokers and middle men. I need not mention about the typical Indian politician hiding in all the roles at various levels. Reckless spending on Social sector: Ever since the UPA took over, it has been spending recklessly on the social sector. I am not against spending on social sector. I too support the judicious spending on social sector for inclusive growth. But i underline the word reckless. The pet project of the UPA has been the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, where rural men and women are employed through the panchayat president or polit