Orissa's disgrace
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13/12/2002
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Tribune (New Delhi)
The severe indictment of the Orissa Government by the N.C. Saxena Commission for large scale corruption and irregularities in the implementation of anti-poverty schemes has not come a day too soon. On the face of it, the two member commission, appointed by the Supreme Court, has confirmed the allegations made by the People's Union for Civil Liberties about starvation deaths in the state due to several factors such as sluggish economic growth, lapses in the implementation of rural development programmes and rampant corruption......Editorial