Let's see what your money could've bought
Let's see what your money could have bought According to a leaked report by the CAG the coal scam involved misallocation of coal blocks between 2004 and 2009 at an estimated cost to the Indian taxpayer of Rs. 10.67 lakh crore - that's $193 Billion (US). The final report due any day, is expected to focus only on the Rs. 1.8 lakh crore lost to private players, still the biggest scam in India's history. (1) 334 million tonnes of rice 3 billion yearly doses of HIV drugs 74 cities in India can have metro systems as big as the Delhi metro 11 manned trips to the moon 21 years of basic access to drinking water for everyone in the world who is currently without it World Bank, rice cost: Treatment for HIV $578 / tonne with generic drugs ): in July 2012 $64 / year The Space Review this could feed 2,282 estimated in 2010 the cost ople for a year $2.61 billion at 2004 prices is the million There are an estimated 50 million people in the world living with of Apollo from 1959 to 1973 as $20.4 billion, or $109 billion in 2010 dol- $9-30 billion / year There are only 925 estimated capital cost of Phases I and II of the million malnourished HIV (7) lars, averaged over the 6 landings as $18 billion is the World Bank's estimate for the cost of people in the world 3) reaching "basic levels of coverage...in water and sanitation" for "achieving uni- versal coverage" of water and sanitation ) Delhi metro this could pay for 60 years of HIV treatment for every infected person in the world each (10) it could feed India's 230 million hungry people for 10 years 4- http://artices.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01- Sources 1- httpx//articles. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-14/india/33200794_1_cag-report-coal-blocks-audit-reports 2 - http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity-rice&months-60 3- http://www.wip.org/hunger/ 15/india/30629637_1_anganwadi-workers-ghi-number-of-hungry-people 5 - http://www.wfp.org/nutritionWFP-foodbasket 6- http://www.avert.org/generic.htm 7- http://www.avert.org/workdstats.htm 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Program_cost 8 - http://www.water.cc/water-crisis/related-news/ 9 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_MetroAFinances
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