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Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
At some point Govt needs to answer a very basic question.
If citizens have to privately arrange healthcare, education, transport, security, clean water, clean air, retirement and backup for basic infrastructure...
then what exactly is the middle class receiving for decades of taxes?
Because "earn more money so you can protect yourself from our failures" cannot be the economic model of a serious country.
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
🚨 UNFILTERED: Andrés Iniesta has just dropped a shocking confession about the 2006 Champions League final that will completely break Arsenal fans all over again.
Speaking in a deeply reflective new interview, the Barcelona legend admitted what everyone in North London has felt for two decades:
"To be completely honest, looking back with a mature heart, Arsenal deserved to win that trophy in Paris. Jens Lehmann was red-carded, we were struggling badly against ten men, and things just fell our way. Sometimes my conscience genuinely disturbs me when I think about that night. They played the better football, and they were robbed of history."
Roughly twenty years too late, but the guilt is finally setting in.
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
Please add: Revamp of Golf Course Extn Road (2019 by @mlkhattar sahab), Shifting of Kherki Daula toll (2018 @mlkhattar again by @nitin_gadkari)@cmohry
'Gurugram infra projects pending for years, why?' CMO wants to know tribuneindia.com/news/haryan…
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
For decades, Kaziranga lost rhinos to men who knew the ground better than the rangers chasing them. Then someone changed the odds. In 2022, for the first time in 45 years, it went a full year without losing one. Read on.
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Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
India’s chip dream began decades ago. By 1989, SCL Mohali had moved from 5-micron to 1.2-micron technology…
Then, on 7 Feb 1989, it went up in flames…
Accident or sabotage?
Manya Gupta with ThePrint #PastForward
youtu.be/XKLib6A7Gtg
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
Now even India’s judiciary has disappointed me by pulling up Tukaram Mundhe and the Maharashtra FDA.
How did the court decide that eateries being “88% compliant” is good enough?
Food safety isn’t a percentage game. An eatery is either compliant or it isn’t. What if that remaining 12% causes sickness-or death?
Where exactly is the line? Cockroaches are acceptable, but poisonous animals aren’t?
When human health is at stake, 88% compliance is failure.
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
Education Budget of India - $14 Billion
Health Budget of India - $11.6 Billion
Sports Budget of India - $0.4 Billion
Freebies Budget of India - $120 Billion
Your taxes were never about development.
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
Gurgaon’s infra woes are not hidden, Yet we have the same MP from 2009 and same party in the city and state since 2014. Completely visionless and unaccountable politicians who are failing the millennium city. Guess Gurgaon doesn’t have enough cockroaches!
After 17 years of calling Gurgaon home, today broke something inside me. For the first time, I felt an overwhelming sense of grief and sheer helplessness just stepping out of my door to pick kid from school.
A few hours of rain shouldn't reduce a "millennium city" into a stranded, chaotic nightmare. The city didn't fail us ,the system, the administration.
For nearly two decades we have paid our taxes, built our lives, and hoped for better, only to be met with the same negligence year after year from concerned team.
We are not just commuters stuck in traffic; we are parents with our kids,we are children with our elderly parents, we are spouse, we are siblings we are human beings. We matter.Our lives matter. Our children’s futures and our family's safety matter.
We cannot stay quiet anymore while our dignity is washed away with every downpour. It is time they hear us, loud and clear.
@mcgurgaon
@OfficialGMDA
@HSVP_Haryana
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
This is the Haryana government’s answer to Gurugram’s waterlogging crisis.
Don’t send school buses on waterlogged roads!
Use alternative routes.
If there is no safe alternative, keep children in school and inform parents.
But here’s the question the government needs to answer:
How do children get home?
They went to school. Their buses are meant to bring them back. If the roads are waterlogged, where exactly are these “alternative routes”?
Instead of fixing Gurugram’s chronic waterlogging, poor drainage and bad planning, the government is effectively telling schools, parents and children to work around the problem.
This isn’t a solution.
It is an advisory on how to live with a failure that has been years in the making.
Gurugram calls itself the Millennium City.
The least it can do is ensure that children can get home safely when it rains. Shame on the #Haryanagovt @diprogurugram1 @NayabSainiBJP @Suhelseth
#Order
🌧️ बारिश में स्कूली बच्चों की सुरक्षा को लेकर जिला प्रशासन का बड़ा फैसला
जिला आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण एवं डीसी श्री उत्तम सिंह ने जारी किए आदेश, जलभराव वाले रास्तों पर स्कूल बसें नहीं चलेंगी
➡️ गुरुग्राम में मानसून के दौरान स्कूल बसों की सुरक्षित आवाजाही के लिए जिला आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण ने सख्त दिशा-निर्देश जारी किए।
➡️ जलभराव घोषित मार्ग पर स्कूल बस भेजने पर रोक, सुरक्षित वैकल्पिक रूट का करना होगा इस्तेमाल।
➡️ सुरक्षित वैकल्पिक मार्ग नहीं होने पर बच्चों को स्कूल परिसर में ही सुरक्षित रखा जाएगा और अभिभावकों को तत्काल सूचना दी जाएगी।
➡️ ट्रैफिक पुलिस बारिश के दौरान स्कूल रूट की स्थिति की रियल-टाइम जानकारी स्कूलों को देगी।
➡️ भारी बारिश या IMD अलर्ट के दौरान हरियाणा रोडवेज की अतिरिक्त बसें स्टैंडबाय रहेंगी, ताकि जलभराव में फंसी स्कूल बसों से बच्चों को सुरक्षित निकाला जा सके।
➡️ किसी बच्चे को जलभराव वाले अथवा सुनसान बस स्टॉप पर नहीं उतारा जाएगा। बच्चे को केवल अभिभावक/अधिकृत संरक्षक को सौंपा जाएगा।
➡️ हर स्कूल में Transport In-charge/Route Safety Officer नियुक्त करना अनिवार्य।
➡️ स्कूल बस रूट और स्कूल गेट के आसपास जलभराव हटाने को डिवॉटरिंग एजेंसियां देंगी पहली प्राथमिकता।
➡️ आदेश तत्काल प्रभाव से 30 सितंबर 2026 तक अथवा आगामी आदेश तक लागू रहेगा।
#Gurugram #BreakingNews #DDMA #SchoolBus #Rain #Waterlogging #StudentSafety
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
Gurgaon’s 3 million citizens pay a compulsory “flood tax” at this time every year.
Rich or poor, young or old, it’s the one tax nobody can evade.
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
A scathing reality check from TOI editorial that completely vindicates Team Bharat: the e20 mandate is a textbook botched policy driven by distillery profits over public interest.
The disastrous trade-off:
• Fake energy savings: Displaces very little petrol/km while reducing vehicle mileage.
• Economic blunder: Only makes financial sense if crude touches $120–$130/bbl. At ~$70 crude, we're burning cash.
• Food security disaster: 29% of maize diverted to fuel tanks. We spent 30x more forex importing edible oil than we "saved" on ethanol restrictions.
• Ecological crime: 4,670 liters of precious groundwater wasted for a single liter of maize ethanol, draining fragile aquifers.
We aren't saving foreign exchange; we're just shifting dependence from foreign crude to imported food while gutting our water tables. Scrap the first-gen biofuel lobby racket.
#EthanolScam
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
Engines not compliant with ethanol 20, run on a lean burn if subjected to e20. Lean burn causes higher emissions of NOx which are 100 times heavier greenhouse gases as compares to CO2. This was also a part of the NITI aayog report but was made to disappear.
Over 90% engines in India aren't e20 compliant.
Stop putting your stupidity on exhibition.
#EthanolScam
@OGTeamBharat @tehseenp @FactswithDinesh @theracemonkey @Nidhzee @Shankyram2 @gaurijs1999
A NITI Aayog life-cycle assessment found Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from sugarcane- and maize-based ethanol to be ~65% and ~50% lower, respectively, than petrol.
The findings highlight that feedstock and production pathways influence ethanol’s life-cycle environmental impact, underscoring the importance of sustainable and efficient feedstock choices.
From feedstock to fuel — the full life cycle matters.
#MHI #BustingTheMyth #E20 #E20Petrol #EthanolBlending #FuelFacts #CleanMobility #EnergySecurity #AtmanirbharBharat
@MIB_India @PetroleumMin @MORTHIndia @PIB_India @arai_india @siamindia @FADA_India @icat_in @Natrax_IND @Garc_Natrip
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
I am not against helping the poor.
I am against this Govt looting productive taxpayers and then throwing freebies like candy to buy votes.
Targeted welfare is one thing.
Endless freebies race while middle class is crushed under tax is pure political prostitution.
RBI can scream fiscal discipline all day.
Politicians only care about the next election, not the next generation.
1 premier league title. 3 community shields. 1 FA Cup. 3 second place finishes in the league. 1 champions league final and 1 champions league semi final. All in his first 6 years as a manager. Whether you like Mikel Arteta or not, what you cannot deny is that he has been a huge success as Arsenal’s manager. Especially considering the mess and chaos he came into in December 2019.
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Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
Finally, a sensible voice in the power corridors. E10 for older cars. The simple logic that ministers have fail to fathom
indiatoday.in/business/story…
Biswajit Borkataky retweeted
A new website called “bribes.fyi” has emerged as a platform where users can anonymously report details of bribes they were asked to pay, including the role, amount and department involved. According to the website, it is India’s first crowdsourced bribe registry that is completely anonymous and permanently public.
Read more: hindustantimes.com/india-new…
