Mayawati - ???????
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    • Mayawati - ???????

    Vikas Srivastava

    Software Engineer

    On a day when she began recruitment for her Memorial Protection Force, Mayawati, the UP Chief Minister, gave a thumbs down for the landmark Right to Education (RTE) Act. 

    Blaming the Centre for not making any financial allocations, in a letter to the Prime Minister, Mayawati has said that the UP Govt cannot bear the expenses, and that the States should have been consulted before passing RTE.

    Mayawati says the Centre can't decide what the state governments should do and that implementing RTE will cost Uttar Pradesh Rs 8,000 crore this fiscal.

    She also added that the Centre should bear all the costs.

    A nominal ratio of 65 per cent by the Centre and 35 per cent by the State had been settled while passing the Act.

    The RTE Act came into force on Thursday and promises to ensure education for all children between 6 and 14, a whopping 22 crore children, out of which nearly 1.1 crore are out of school.

    Overview of her spending's on Statues

    The memorials and parks that she spends crores building are being studied by the Supreme Court. The reason: taxpayers are being forced to fund them.

    But that hasn't stopped Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati from stubbornly going ahead with her plans. So now, she's shelling out another 9 crores - once again, taxpayers' money - on creating a special force to guard the memorials. Recruitment begins on Saturday for a thousand retired policemen who will be asked to watch over the statues of Dalit icons, including her own, in nine parks across Uttar Pradesh. They won't be overworked for long. The Chief Minister wants to eventually have a 2-lakh-strong force that is estimated to cost 67 crores. But this first battalion has to be hired within a week.

    Meanwhile, there are 26,000 vacancies in the police force in her state, which has the country's worst crime statistics, including the highest amount of sexual crimes against children.

    ''What is the need for protecting her statues? Will they lose height or weight? Is someone planning to disfigure them?'' asked an incredulous Ambika Chaudhury, a member of the Opposition Samajwadi Party earlier this year, when the Chief Minister announced her plans for her memorial guard in the State Assembly.

    The Chief Minister has made it clear in the past that her own residence - which she considers a Dalit monument in its own right - will also be patrolled by her new A-Team.

    Apparently, it's her way or the highway - now if only she'd spend some money on developing some of those, for example.
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