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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9677)	11/20/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Conquest in Kargil; Vanquished in Kalinga (Orissa,sorry exuse for a State) The relief operation is too slow, unfocussed and erratic in Orissa, writes Veerappa Moily (former chief minister of Karnataka) ............. About 60 per cent of the state population lives below the poverty line. This is one state which could attract only 1.9 per cent of the total share of investment proposals between August '91 to December '96 and in the same period it received only 1.7 per cent of the total financial assistance dispersed by Indian financial institutions. It has the lowest number of doctors per thousand: one government doctor for 64,178 people. At Kalahandi and Naupada districts endemic drought and famine caused irreparable damage in the 80's and 90's......... The crisis should not have been utilised for political expediency. It is totally shocking to learn that a majority of the affected have not yet been relocated. The number of dead remains uncertain, and the statistics of the death toll have multiplied. It is quite strange that when successive governments at the centre could promulgate ordinances that have been later declared un-constitutional, the Centre should be reluctant to declare this as a national calamity for want of legal backup. It smacks of total insensitivity on the part of the government and also its arrogant bureaucracy. People crushed by law have no hope but power. If laws are their enemies they will be enemies of laws and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous, more or less. There is hesitation on the part of the Government of India against the back ground of assembly elections in February 2000. The tragedy of Orissa may be attributed to the wrath of nature, but it also speaks of the neglect and misgovernance...... "When things go wrong first look in the mirror". This is the proverb in Chinese. Perhaps people in authority both in the state and Government of India should have proper introspection about what they have done in the post-cyclone period of Orissa. news.satyamonline.com