The issue, of course, is that the money that is allocated to be spent on education. . . doesn’t.

I believe the average percentage of money out of the education budget that actually gets spent on rural schools is something like 6% in India. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa it’s more like 1%.

Of course, the people who are supposed to be getting this money don’t know that they’re supposed to be getting this money, so they don’t notice when a headmaster absconds with it or when a teacher is derelict in his duties and fails to show up for class.

Inform the people where the money that is supposed to be going to them is actually going and the problem will solve itself. They’ll turn their energies to getting the more of the money the ought to be getting instead of lobbying to increase budget of which they only receive a fraction.

It’s simple math. For every Ruppee that goes into the education budget, the citizen only sees 6 Paise. For every time they organize and tar-and-feather the bastards robbing them blind, they get a full ruppee!

Richard Feynman once said, “Don’t listen to what I say. Listen to what I mean!”. Mr. C doesn’t mean anything that’s different from what his boss does.

If only politicians could be made to speak the truth with a dose of Sodium Pentothol, I’d campaign for a constitutional amendment to substitute it for the oath of office in every democracy around the world!