Financial Times

Mind your business

Wasting public funds

Government institutions seem to have a great deal of money to spend these days.

Is the dispensation of such funds done on some accountable basis or at the whims and fancies of individuals?

Tourism via migrants

Do you know that migrant workers are paying for the country’s tourism development?

Every traveller at the airport pays a tax of Rs 1,500 of which Rs 500 is for tourism development and with more than 200,000 migrant workers leaving every year, the bulk of that payment comes from this hardly-supported worker. Is it fair?

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