COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: NO DEFENSE FOR DEFENCE

COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: NO DEFENSE FOR DEFENCE: .


 In the same lines, Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) investigation on Border Roads Organization’s (BRO’s) Project Deepak unearthed evidences of lack of transparency, dearth of quality control, manipulations with tenders and use of inferior quality of materials in constructing bridges and roads. These substandard roads are alarming especially in the context of Chinese advancements in building world class infrastructure alongside the borders! The CVC report demonstrates financial irregularities in excess of Rs.100 crores, apart from shoddy work produced to build vital roads and bridges. However, no story would be complete without the mention of Operation West End. In this case, a notorious nexus between the ministers of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and army top brass dovetailed to take bribes that eclipsed four per cent of tens of thousands of crores of total defence contract amount. Last year in January, a former army vice chief Lt-General was found involved in a land scam that robed the government of 0.96 acres of prime defence land worth Rs.45 crore in the Pune cantonment area.

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