All shine, no money for rural India
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22/02/2004
"Government Cheating" instead of "India Cheated" could perhaps be a more appropriate punch line for the Congress in countering the Vajpayee government's "India Shining" campaign. The Rs 50,000-crore farm and rural infrastructure fund, that forms the basis for the government's make-believe world of India's 650 million farmers and rural folks "shining", turns out to be a mere sleight of hand. The government has launched a new fund