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Great Indian highway robbery: What are its costs?
Economic Times | 13 Nov, 2011, 12.39AM IST :
People in big metros are fuming after petrol prices were raised again last week. But spare a thought for the people of Manipur. Petrol in the north-eastern state is retailing at Rs 200 a litre; the price in Delhi is just over Rs 68 a litre. The black market price of LPG cylinders is Rs 2,000 in Manipur, compared to the subsidised price of around Rs 405.
Why is it so easy, in the north-east, or in the rest of India (think of the Gujjar protests in Rajasthan or the Telangana agitation in Andhra or the Kashmir disturbances) to block highways, which are national economic arteries? What explains the great Indian highway robbery, for that's what highway blockades amount to, robbing people of essentials at affordable prices?
Legal Tangle
IDFC's private equity arm head Vikram Pant once said, "In India, there are laws. In China, there is order." The Indian state's response to the hijacking of highways and railroads can at best be described as farcical. It is not for a lack of laws that the government is found wanting in such cases.
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