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relief scams
by kun on Aug 30, 2008 04:28 PM

I would like to share the facts of relief fund.
I am born & brought up in Mumbai & have been visiting my native place very often. I have seen the difference in the mentality of the people in Metro & village. Singhia (20KM from Rosera & 40KM from Darbhanga) my Native place is the junction for almost 20 – 30 vilage relying on it for its basic supplies
People of Singhia used to have 8 – 10hrs of electricity in 80’s however once laluji raj came electricity has gone for ever don’t know when will it get restored again.
2004 was the year when unfortunately I was trapped in the flood with water on all sides my house had water upto my waste level (I am 5.9”) we used to see airplanes dropping relief in our village it contained not more than 300gms of flour ,1 matchbox 250 gms of salt) & not more than 2% of the people use to get this.
Once the water left the local panchayat distributed a Lot many thing like Rs. 250 per family & 1 glass of Poha per head (one time only)
Laluji can better explain what was the relief granted by the Central govt at that time & how much allocation he did. Laluji & Paswan sahib seems to be worried very much for the people of bihar but the fact is they are the people who are scrubbing their head for not being in power ( they could have allocated it in a much efficient way) I don’t know who was responsible for the then 2004 relief scandal (according to me) but it was certainly not the help that people deserved.


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