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First things first, spending 2500 crore rupees in total and over 2000 crore for basically just a statue and a travel industry booster seems a colossal waste of money especially when a quarter of the population is under fed according to UN statistics. Do we really need to fuel our prides and ego when one in four people get less than three meals a day?
We get grumpy when the Chinese delivery guy takes 45 minutes instead of 40 minutes or lesser according to what he promised you on the phone but there are people who have grown to think that food is a matter of luck and depends on the generosity of a passing person.
Forget homeless people, there is a generation of people who can’t be called homeless because to be homeless you have to have owned a house at some point of life but millions are born on the street, labour their entire life but can’t make enough to own a house. In such a country where multi million dollar scams leave the common man and the uneducated cheated of their rights and the basic infrastructure is not provided, can we afford to build a statue that requires such a great deal of money that will be
Over 4 billion dollars for an ego boost hardly seems to way to unless India has too much money to pay when the road to work is like a rally stage to avoid potholes. There are practically infinite issues that could be addressed with that kind of money for the betterment of society than to pay respect to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. No disrespect to the great work done by the Iron Man of India but I am sure he himself would not have agreed to this kind of superfluous expenditure even if India became the most prosperous country in the world because we do realize the value of money because we have seen hardships that most people in the western countries only watch on CNN for a 30 second news bit.
Narendra Modi has done a great job in many parts of Gujarat and most of the project except for the 2000 plus crore statue which includes parks, amusements centres, a bridge amongst other infrastructural improvements seem useful to drive tourism which will increase employment opportunities and bring in more investment from domestic and foreign sources but a scaled down statue will make more sense.
The numbers play a big role in this project, the statue if really built will be double the size of the Statue of Liberty which sounds great to show the prosperity of our country but what after its done, the money is gone and feeling proud is not a substitute for more concrete improvements like employment and other justifiable schemes.
The statue should definitively be made to respect the unparalleled work of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel but do you agree with the scale of the statue or is the hunger to break many records to great to satisfy the actual hunger of millions? Share your comments on the issue with us.
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