{"id":2428,"date":"2010-11-04T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T07:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2010-11-04T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T07:38:25","slug":"greed-is-good-indias-role-models-and-icons-fall-to-all-pervasive-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2010\/11\/04\/greed-is-good-indias-role-models-and-icons-fall-to-all-pervasive-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed is Good &#8211; India&#039;s Role Models and Icons Fall to All Pervasive Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India&#8217;s Respected Army gets Tainted by Real Estate Scam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/10\/29\/inidan-generalsadmiralsbureaucrats-and-politicians-band-together-to-swindle-prime-land-meant-for-war-widows\/\">Politicians and Bureaucrats have known to be totally corrupt<\/a> and greedy so new <a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/10\/22\/surprise-surprise-indian-real-estate-company-emaar-mgf-implicated-in-the-massive-commonwealth-scam\/\">scams breaking out daily<\/a> does not surprise the common people much.Except in the post Independence period,Politics in India is not considered to be a noble profession with\u00a0 most politicians considered to be steeped in nepotism and corruption.So the new Adarsh Real Estate Scam in India&#8217;s financial capital Mumbai caught some by surprise.While the usual politicians and bureaucrats were heavily involved,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/109662\/ex-service-chiefs-give-up.html\">India&#8217;s former army generals and admirals were also found<\/a> with their hands in the till.The land on which the building was built was meant to be given for army widows in the Kargil war.Instead a wide motley of powerful officials and politicians took multiple flats in India&#8217;s prime residential Colaba area at a pittance.India&#8217;s leading Congress Party has maintained a deafening silence even as its top ministers have been found to have flats in the apartment building.India&#8217;s former Army General Kapoor has now been implicated in multiple scams.Investigations have revealed him to be a &#8220;real estate tycoon&#8221; with multiple\u00a0 properties in his name.Only conclusion is that he is as corrupt as the rest since a Army salary is even less than that of a fresh MBA graduate in India.Other former Army chiefs too have been found to be implicated.As usual don&#8217;t expect any jail terms or convictions just a media circus before everything returns to the normal.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeenews.com\/news665790.html\">Fmr Army chief Kapoor\u2019s assets under scanner &#8211; Zee<\/a><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Even before the controversy about his flat in the scam-hit Adarsh Society  has ebbed, questions are being raised about former Army chief Deepak  Kapoor&#8217;s &#8221;disproportionate assets&#8221;. As per a report published in English daily Thursday, Defence Minister A K  Antony is looking into the matter after Trinamool MP Ambica Banerjee in  a letter to him drew his attention to the former General\u2019s landed  property.   The MP has, as per the report, listed Gen Kaoor\u2019s assets which apart  from his Adarsh flat, includes a flat in Dwarka sector 29 in Delhi,  three houses in Gurgaon, and a penthouse in Lohkandwala in Mumbai.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>India&#8217;s Sporting Heros fall to the Cricketing Corruption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Cricketing Icons are considered as role models by majority of the youth.India&#8217;s cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar,Kapil Dev are revered in the country due to the huge popularity of the game.However India&#8217;s recent cricketing league IPL has been found to another massive corruption scam.No jail terms as usual but a lot of political turmoil and media jumping around.India&#8217;s top ministers have been indirectly implicated but nothing has happened as usual.Now it has been found that India&#8217;s top former cricketers are also a part of this Greed Fest.Sunil Gavaskar,arguably India&#8217;s best known batsman has got caught in a controversy.He has demeaned himself by asking for a huge payment that he was promised to be a member of the governing council of the corruption tainted IPL.Any upright person would have totally disassociated himself with the whole corruption game.By asking for a huge sum for his services,even this cricketing icon has fallen.<strong>India has very few role models left.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.in.msn.com\/cricket\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4531458\">BCCI and Sunil Gavaskar train guns at each other again &#8211; MSN<\/a><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Omitted from the IPL Governing Council, a disgruntled Sunil Gavaskar  has said that BCCI, the promoters of the Twenty20 League, has not paid  him a single penny for his services. In a major revamp, the BCCI left  out the former Indian captain from the Twenty20 League&#8217;s Governing  Council at its Annual General Meeting in September.<\/p>\n<p>The Cricket  Board did not give any reason for Gavaskar&#8217;s ouster, but there were  reports that it could be a result of a payment dispute. But the  legendary batsman maintained that he had not been paid for the last  three years which forced him to sent a &#8220;gentle reminder about the  non-payment&#8221; to BCCI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Cricketing Icons are considered as role models by majority of the youth.India&#8217;s cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar,Kapil Dev are revered in the country due to the huge popularity of the game.However India&#8217;s recent cricketing league IPL has been found to another massive corruption scam.No jail terms as usual but a lot of political turmoil and media jumping around.India&#8217;s top ministers have been indirectly implicated but nothing has happened as usual.Now it has been found that India&#8217;s top former cricketers are also a part of this Greed Fest.Sunil Gavaskar,arguably India&#8217;s best known batsman has got caught in a controversy.He has demeaned himself by asking for a huge payment that he was promised to be a member of the governing council of the corruption tainted IPL.Any upright person would have totally disassociated himself with the whole corruption game.By asking for a huge sum for his services,even this cricketing icon has fallen.India has very few role models left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1247,2243,2969,4253],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greeninvest","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-economy-indian-capital-markets","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}