Thursday, March 22, 2012

JUST A STATISTIC

Amid all the budget hoopla ah and expectations splashed all over the papers, certain facts seem to have gone unnoticed. The tension buildup to the D-Day (read budget) is a fodder for the media to play with and speculate all sorts of customized budgets that will placate every taxpayer in the economy. And why not, since the government is answerable to us, we'd like a budget in our interests without having the fear of reaching our pockets, without having the worry of reading the fine prints, without having the hassle of searching the best "interest". And no matter how hard the Finance Minister tries, statistics and facts tend to contradict each other!

Statistics; there goes a saying,"there are lies, damn lies ans statistics". It has remained a common fallacy of the government to report misleading figures and numbers with latest addition being the "5 crore poor above poverty line for the period 2004-09". Anyways, we wont get into the intricacies of the tricks, what a common man is interested is with the stat. Stats on my purchasing power, stats on my cost of living, stats on air, rail fares, stats on bank interests, stats on my body flab, etc!! what we forget is that there's an underlying truth or fallacy of a situation. 
A similar statistic was that of the death of another IPS officer in the mafia-lands, at the hands of coal mafia. the news generated relatively low "TRPS" and hence was out of print after a few mourning photos and mudslinging action on the pages. It has gone into the archive section of death figures on duty; the associated compensation figure to the family; the rank. What won't be recorded are the stats on the size of the DEVIL, the stat on the tears shed, the stat on the political nexus, the stat on the risk involved on duty, the stat on the negligence of the departments, the stats on the multitude of grieving. 

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