Indian Media Wakes Up to Railways Corruption

News of the Great Railways Procurement Robbery has leaked. Will our plumbing job help the nation plug its Railways leak? NDTV belatedly followed The Statesman's initial and comprehensive break to release what it had been holding on to for weeks. The coverage by NDTV shows that since the scam volume is so big, Rs. 5,000 crore annually, they were unsure about it even while they were running the story. This explains why they held on for so long. No such problem for The Statesman, who went whole hog. Dainik Bhaskar then simply stole the NDTV article. The NDTV kicker was when they got Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniappa to call the entire Railways procurement system 'transparent.' Gill fell off his chair in peals of laughter. I can still hear him giggling from some corner of the earth. Mr. Muniappa you have done a great service to the nation by your comments. You, in fact, do not know just how much you have helped. We salute your transparent transparence. For more coverage of the scam so far, click here, here, here, here, here, and here. Some more plumbing to do, I, Jack, have got to go. Scams away...