Your Money or Your Right to Rehabilitation

 

The idea of this backgrounder, is to highlight some of the ways in which “our money” (that is money that has been collected in our name, either in the form of taxes, relief funds, or immediate post disaster contributions from the public) have been mis-utilised, diverted, non-utilized, and denied to disaster victims. This relies on newspaper and CAG reports on the last few disasters: such as floods in Maharashtra 2004-2005, Tsunami that affected coastal states on 26 December 2004, Earthquake in Bhuj on 26 January 2001 and Super Cyclone in Orrisa on 11 October 1999. All the disasters have one common tragedy that is misappropriation of funds.

 

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