I do not see why my (tax payer's) money should go in > funding an institute such as NIO (National > Institute of Oceonagraphy)if such an all important > event about our ocean such as tsumani goes > unpredicted by the institute. > > This is infinitely more important than trips to > Antarctica, and growing algaes. > > The Indian govt. should immediately close all > institutes related to oceanography > and divert all funds spent in such useless > endeavours to relief work.
Dr. Samir Kelekar, I would expand the work of NIO to include Tsunami warnings. >But then again, Indians don't like paying income tax, >so maybe you are right. If there is any country where citizen's income tax is going down the drain, it is India. We pay for the salary of someone like the represmtative of NIO who says "Tsunami, we have no clue". We pay for the salary of someone who --- even though the govt. has changed in May (it has been more than six months) still sends an emergency communication to the last Minister, and not the current one. These guys should be fired, and here you are talking about rewarding them by giving them more responsibility. Unless we have accountability in the system, nothing is going to change. Unless the guy who is incharge of sending communication in case of emergency is held accountable for his actions --- in this case, indirectly, due to his attitue, hundreds of lives were lost --- nothing is going to change. How do you justify giving these guys more responsibiity instead? regards, Samir Kelekar Mervyn2.0 ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca