75% Discount Sale: Come one Come all

This is not the summer sale, but this sale takes place perennially. “75% Discount Sale” are the words of Shailesh Gandhi, who served as Central Information Commissioner under the RTI act. The commodity in question here is the public land. The State of Maharashtra leases its land at 20-30% rates of the market price. This had construed to a loss of Rs. 25,000 crores to the Revenue department. Here are few of the links in newspapers…

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/excic-questions-land-lease-policy-serves-notices/1121464/

http://www.moneylife.in/article/lease-land-fraud-shailesh-gandhi-sends-notices-to-revenue-secretary-collectors-of-mumbai-and-suburbs/32879.html

http://www.moneylife.in/article/rti-exposes-a-revenue-loss-of-rs25000-crore-in-maharashtra/32824.html