An excellent and incisive article by Anurabh Saikia on Scroll.in copied to Goanet reader.
A lot more information and background on the scandal than any other superficial reports the Indian media has so far provided. One thing is clear. 1. The tribals for whom the state was carved out are exploited more than ever. 2. The child welfare committes have far more power than is good for them and they misuse it. 3. Nirmal Hriday and other NGOs like it take advantage of the opportunities that come to them to increase their outreach and exercise lax supervision on their own activities. 4. Everybody wins: Child Welfare who turn a blind eye when money is passed around since they get a part of it, Nirmal Hriday who get influence with tribals by helping out with unwed mothers and destitute new-born children and exploit it to evangelize. 5. The BJP who make unfounded allegations and get political brownie points. Their real motive is to open up tribal land with resource robbing corporation who supply them with tons of ill-gotten money. For every one rupee the Sisters of Charity get from anywhere, the BJP gets a million. The only losers are the tribals who are trafficked by Delhi moneybags in the same manner as they have despoiled Goa with their real estate shenanigans, caring little for law, procedures or feelings of the people they hurt and the country to which they belong. Roland.
