{"id":136,"date":"2006-02-10T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T07:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/wp\/wp\/2006\/02\/10\/it-isnt-just\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T07:07:22","slug":"it-isnt-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/it-isnt-just\/","title":{"rendered":"It Isn&#8217;t Just&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t just Reliance Infocomm which tries to cheat BSNL. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/common\/storypage.php?storyflag=y&#038;leftnm=lmnu2&#038;leftindx=2&#038;lselect=1&#038;chklogin=N&#038;autono=214703\">BSNL employees do the same thing<\/a>. So who&#8217;s to blame- Reliance, or the stupid system of tariffs and cross-subsisdies that sets up arbitrage opportunities like this in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t just airports which are seeing private participation and development. The MMRDA has received fifteen tenders for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/common\/storypage.php?storyflag=y&#038;leftnm=lmnu2&#038;leftindx=2&#038;lselect=1&#038;chklogin=N&#038;autono=214698\">a new bus terminus to be run on a build-own-operate-transfer contract<\/a>. Which should hopefully answer Dilip D&#8217; Souza.<\/p>\n<p>And it isn&#8217;t just Jayalalitha who nationalises industries to give political rivals a poke in the eye. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/fe_full_story.php?content_id=117131\">Andhra Pradesh government has just handed all the <em>well-managed<\/em> dairy cooperatives to the bureaucracy<\/a>. Once again, the political rivals will eventually come back to power, and it&#8217;s the consumers and dairy farmers who&#8217;ll get shafted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t just Reliance Infocomm which tries to cheat BSNL. BSNL employees do the same thing. So who&#8217;s to blame- Reliance, or the stupid system of tariffs and cross-subsisdies that sets up arbitrage opportunities like this in the first place? It isn&#8217;t just airports which are seeing private participation and development. The MMRDA has received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,8,20,31,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-business-and-economics","category-links","category-public-policy-and-politics","category-telecom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-2c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}