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Each dead persons family will get 4 lakh rupees, thats around $5000. Unbelievable. Why should the govt pay everyone who died? In a country that’s already poor a

Each dead persons family will get 4 lakh rupees, thats around $5000. Unbelievable. Why should the govt pay everyone who died? In a country that’s already poor and starved of cash. India economy has already been eroded with lockdowns and huge expenses on vaccines being given out for free, and now you have to pay those who died too.

iso1631 5y ago
> In a country that’s already poor and starved of cash. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778 India has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon's surface.
- naruvimama 5y ago
  There is an ROI to India's space mission. The US has homeless problems too, but doesn't stop it from spending on the space program.
- ngc248 5y ago
  Resources need to be spent on all things no ..... not just on the poor, but even on things which may payoff in the future. Another point is, you can never alleviate poverty by just giving the poor money
- KumarAseem 5y ago
  The cost of space missions done by ISRO is extremely low. Even if you cancel all the space missions, the money saved will be in pennies and the loss of tech know how will be enormous. The wastage of finances is in other areas. Full page advertisements by govt departments on nonsensical things. Useless litigations. Implementing big changes to laws and systems without proper discussions and studies. Awarding contracts to entities whose track record is a bad one. And so on. India has become a morally poor nation and 90% of the citizens do not try to see and understand the big picture. They have on interest in spending time to learn what is happening in their nation and see what is happening in other nations and then question why we are doing things in proven wrong ways. Indians believe more in what is circulated on whatsapp and facebook than if you get a bunch of Nobel winners to explain the truth.
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benque 5y ago
I think you and the parent commenter don't understand the ground realities in such countries. A lot of stuff will remain "on paper" or in "official" communications. There is no way any government here is going to pay $5000 to so many people. Either they will claim fewer numbers or will make an argument in court that they can't pay. Also, the availability of free vaccines is much lower than paid ones, so your claim is inaccurate.

iso1631 5y ago

> In a country that’s already poor and starved of cash. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778 India has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon's surface.

naruvimama 5y ago
There is an ROI to India's space mission. The US has homeless problems too, but doesn't stop it from spending on the space program.
ngc248 5y ago
Resources need to be spent on all things no ..... not just on the poor, but even on things which may payoff in the future. Another point is, you can never alleviate poverty by just giving the poor money
KumarAseem 5y ago
The cost of space missions done by ISRO is extremely low. Even if you cancel all the space missions, the money saved will be in pennies and the loss of tech know how will be enormous. The wastage of finances is in other areas. Full page advertisements by govt departments on nonsensical things. Useless litigations. Implementing big changes to laws and systems without proper discussions and studies. Awarding contracts to entities whose track record is a bad one. And so on. India has become a morally poor nation and 90% of the citizens do not try to see and understand the big picture. They have on interest in spending time to learn what is happening in their nation and see what is happening in other nations and then question why we are doing things in proven wrong ways. Indians believe more in what is circulated on whatsapp and facebook than if you get a bunch of Nobel winners to explain the truth.
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benque 5y ago

I think you and the parent commenter don't understand the ground realities in such countries. A lot of stuff will remain "on paper" or in "official" communications. There is no way any government here is going to pay $5000 to so many people. Either they will claim fewer numbers or will make an argument in court that they can't pay. Also, the availability of free vaccines is much lower than paid ones, so your claim is inaccurate.