Fleecing of India

While looking for environmental information in India, I came across this research paper Exceedences of Noise Level during Festival Day - Diwali* This reminded me of Fleecing of America by Brian Williams on NBC.

These guys procured (robbed?) funding from the Department of Science and Technology, conducted a study, and found out that it gets noisy during Diwali (Duh)! First of all, this looks like a very poorly planned (if there was a plan!) study. The presentaion and discussion were very unprofessional (esp. given that there were a couple of Directors on the team). There no mention chronic exposure limits (lower levels, longer exposure) and acute exposure limits (higher levels, shorter exposure). The conclusion is funny - they left the scope for this project open ended, like those Rocky movies!

I have a feeling that a good chunk of population evade taxes in India. And a good portion of the tax received probably gets spent on projects like this (unfortunately).