Bribery

I have been thinking on corruption and bribe for many days now. I have discussed with some about who is responsible for corruption. These are my views on bribery and corruption.

There are 2 types of bribe offered-
1. Bribe paid to an official not to perform his/her duty.
2. Bribe paid to an official to perform his/her duty.
In the first case I feel the person giving the bribe is at fault and should be punished. This is known as reverse control. This is ther law in Israel.
In the second situation the person taking the bribe is at fault and hence should be punished. In other words in some situations the giver should be held responsible and in some situations the receiver should be held responsible and punished.
For example; If 'A' is not having a driving licence and is caught by the cop. Here the cop's duty is to fine him for the illegal act. In this scenario if A pays the bribe and gets away by not paying the fine then A should be punished rather than the cop. Here A is not allowing the cop to perform his/her duty. Therefore 'A' is at fault and should be punished.

Consider another situation where 'A' seeks permission for legal water connection. However he is asked to pay a bribe to get the work done which is the work of the officer incharge. In this case, the officer is at fault and must be punished. This is a case where bribe is demanded to perform the duty.

Ulhasnagar Skywalk Project

Continuing from the previous post.........

Little bit of search reveals tht estimated cost of Ulhasnagar Skywalk is Rs 35 crores for Length of 650m and 4m width. This makes the per metre cost close to 135000 which is again more than Bandra Worli sea link. Again this is much costlier than 13crore skywalk in Bandra.

One good thing about Ulhasnagar skywalk is that it has overrun by couple of months unlike Kalyan skywalk which has overrun by about 8months.

Kalyan Skywalk Project costlier than Bandra Worli Sealink

It is a strange fact but true that Kalyan Skywalk is costlier than Bandra Worli Sea link on a relative basis. On an absolute basis it is much costlier than Bandra skywalk.

the BWSL, with a length of 5.5 km or 5,500 meter and width of 32 meters (8 lanes), was built with a cost of Rs16.5 billion.

When you equalise the costs of both the skywalk and sea link, the cost of skywalk turns out to be a mere 30% less than the sea link! Here are the calculations.

BWSL

Length 5,500x Width 32=176,000 sq m

Project Cost 16,500,000,000/176,000=90,909 (per sq m cost)

Bandra Skywalk

Length 1,300x Width 4= 5,200 sq m

Project Cost 136,300,000/5,200=26,211 (per sq m cost)

So the cost of the Bandra skywalk is about one third than that of the per sq meter cost of the sea link. Now let’s check the cost of Kalyan Dombivali skywalk. MMRDA is constructing this 1.4 km skywalk at a cost of Rs839 million. The width is same for all skywalks i.e. 4 meters. So here are the calculations...

Length 1,400x Width 4= 5,600 sq m

Project Cost 839,000,000/5,600=149,821 (per sq m cost)

And here are the comparisons of the sea link and skywalks:

Bandra Worli Sea Link Rs90,909 per sq m

Bandra sky walk Rs26,211 per sq m

Kalyan sky walk Rs149,821 per sq m

This means the Kalyan skywalk is more costly than that of BSWL!

Source: Suchetadalal.com