So what is Maywati in news for? For statues and concrete parks, for being reprimanded by the Supreme Court and for being insecure about Rahul Gandhi trying to woo Dalit voters away from her. And for not garlanding Gandhi.
Did anyone tell you the story of a scheme she came up with, a simple one, nothing as complicated as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Corruption Guarantee Act. A scheme that simply hires sweepers for the village, from the village.
Well, someone just did, and I can’t thank him enough. Here it is.
There are many such stories, but we don’t want to hear them. Let’s just gaze at the Mayawati statue and wonder when it’s coming down.
KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006 
Dear All,
Great to hear Mayawati doing coming up with innovative, real and grass root oriented equitable and just schemes.
On another note…join protest against land aqusition of 200 villages in noida today. We request progressive intellectuals and activists to also raise their voice against such policies of radical CM mayawati…
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All hindu led government in states are giving free land to business groups at least Mayawati government is acquiring land on market rates.TATA,Birla,JK,Ambani,Infosys got free land for their projct in different states.infosys got free land at mysore.Hindus are protecting hindus and talking nonsense against mayawati.
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I used to wonder how come she is so popular? Is it only due to the dalit votes?
It is true that I did not know she does lot of good things too. I wish we will also get to know them apart from the usual stories on her .
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There is another wonderful scheme she has come up with – The Mayavathi Liquor Tax. This is also a simple ingeneous one, not complicated and can be understood with basic arithmetic. You pay 15 rupees extra for every purchase of a quarter bottle of liquor. The liquor can be either local, phoren or country. But finally Mayavathi and BSP gets something like a 1000 crores an year. Superb aint it.
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dear Vinay,do you think other hindu led governments are digging oil well and getting mony or your hindu led governments are giving tax free liquor to people .
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Governments have the right to levy taxes that go into the treasury. It’s public money used for public purposes. Are you saying liquor in other states is tax free? Or that the tax in this case is being collected by the BSP?
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Shivam,
the details in that story are quite intriguing. It is a scheme right ? Usually that means that the karamcharis are not permanent government employees. It means that Reservations laws dont apply to these posts. It means that the employees are on the muster rolls and not on payrolls.
Where is the money for this coming from ? In similar schemes in other states, the deal was that the village pays part of the salary, and the government takes money out of some project funding to make a matching contribution.
In some instances it was used to build party cadres. In many cases, the new appointees made a deal with the village – we dont do the work, you dont pay us. We pay the leaders an initial bribe and they let us withdraw the matching grant from the government for as long as possible. On paper everything will look as if it is working.
I could be totally wrong about this — but from the details in the story – it seems that somehow, a scheme of the sort described above has turned around at least in some villages. As much as I would love to give credit to Mayawati for this, I need more convincing details. :(
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here is another interesting scheme of the UP government- incentives and awards for inter-caste and inter-community marriages.
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/06/stories/2009100656630700.htm
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One of the other innovative schemes that Mayawati has implemented is the hiring of Mukhtar Ansari, Anna Maharaj, Umakant Yadav, DP Yadav etc etc to uplift the poor, dalits and minoroties……
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