মহালয়ার ইভেন্ট এ খরচ ১৬৭ কোটি। আসুন একটু হিসাব করা যাক এই টাকায় কি কি করা যেত
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মহালয়ার ইভেন্ট এ খরচ ১৬৭ কোটি। আসুন একটু হিসাব করা যাক এই টাকায় কি কি করা যেত

Source: https://www.millenniumpost.in/bengal/uma-agamani-prog-on-mahalaya-rs-167-cr-event-draws-political-fire-678937

- ২৭,০০০ পরিবারের জন্য ১২৫ দিনের গ্রামীণ কর্মসংস্থান (১৬৭ কোটির ৬০% = ১০০ কোটি মজুরি ÷ দৈনিক ₹৩০০ = ৩৩ লক্ষ শ্রমদিবস ÷ ১২৫ দিন)

- ১২০-১৬০ কিমি গ্রামীণ রাস্তা নির্মাণ (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতি কিমি আনুমানিক ₹১-১.৩ কোটি)

- ১২,০০০-১৪,০০০ গ্রামীণ বাড়ি নির্মাণ (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতি বাড়ি আনুমানিক ₹১.২ লক্ষ)

- ৫৫-৮০টি সুসজ্জিত স্কুল (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতি স্কুল আনুমানিক ₹২-৩ কোটি)

- ৩৫-৫৫টি প্রাথমিক স্বাস্থ্যকেন্দ্র (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতিটি আনুমানিক ₹৩-৫ কোটি)

- ৮০,০০০-১,০০,০০০ পরিবারের জন্য নলবাহিত পানীয় জলের সংযোগ (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতি সংযোগ আনুমানিক ₹১৭,০০০-২১,০০০)

- ৭০,০০০-১,১০,০০০ জনের দক্ষতা প্রশিক্ষণ (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতি প্রশিক্ষণার্থী ₹১৫,০০০-২৫,০০০)

- ১.৫-১.৭ লক্ষ শিক্ষার্থীর জন্য স্কলারশিপ (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতি জন ₹১০,০০০, কিছু প্রশাসনিক খরচ বাদ দিয়ে)

- পাট, খাদ্য প্রক্রিয়াকরণ ও চামড়া শিল্পে ক্ষুদ্র ও মাঝারি শিল্পে সহায়তা, ১,০০০-১,৭০০ স্থায়ী চাকরি (১৬৭ কোটি ÷ প্রতি চাকরিতে বিনিয়োগ ₹১০-১৫ লক্ষ)

u/iscrappedthe_data — 4 days ago
▲ 122 r/kolkata

Tmc বা অনুব্রত কে কোনো সমর্থন নয় কিন্তু এইভাবে দিনের পর দিন একটা রাজ্যে গুণ্ডা রাজ চলতে পারে না। এইভাবে মিডিয়ার সামনে মুখে কাপড় বেঁধে আক্রমণ কি তাহলে বাংলার ভবিষ্যত

u/iscrappedthe_data — 15 days ago
▲ 48 r/kolkata

২০০০ টাকার বেশি UPI লেনদেনে গুনতে হবে অতিরিক্ত মাশুল

https://youtube.com/shorts/roFiLesNsx8

More details after conversation and links shared-

>According to reports, an MDR of around 0.4% may be levied on high-value person-to-merchant UPI payments.

Link for the above line - https://indianexpress.com/article/business/govt-notifies-no-bank-charges-on-upi-transactions-up-to-rs-2000-10878007/

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u/iscrappedthe_data — 30 days ago

What can we do to get this guy into jail, there are enough proof now

Law is not my field and i am pretty far from the location. What are the genuine ways we can actually do something? This is getting far beyond how a society can function.

u/iscrappedthe_data — 1 month ago
▲ 48 r/PurbaIndia+1 crossposts

Why GDP Growth Alone Doesn't Mean Development: The India Reality Check

This post is for those celebrating our non-biological PM’s tweet, the rest already knew.

GDP is C + I + G + (X - M). It adds up everything produced in a country in a year. What it doesn't tell you is who owns that output, who actually benefits from it, or whether people's daily lives got any better.

India is the world's fastest growing major economy right now and the 6th largest by nominal GDP. That part is true and worth acknowledging. But look at GDP per capita instead of total GDP and the picture changes fast. India's per capita figure sits around $2,813, roughly a fifth of China's and about a thirty third of the US's. On that measure India ranks close to 149th in the world, not 6th.

Growth numbers also don't say who's actually capturing the gains. The top 1% in India hold over 40% of national wealth, and the top 10% earn about 13 times what the bottom 10% do. On top of that, more than 80% of India's workforce is informal, meaning no job security, no benefits, and income that can swing wildly month to month. GDP happily counts everything they produce. It has nothing to say about how precarious that work actually is.

Then there's human development itself, meaning health, education, and living standards. India's HDI score is 0.685, which puts it in the "medium" category, ranked 130th globally. And depending on which poverty line you use, somewhere between roughly a fifth and a quarter of Indians are still living below it (national estimates put it around 23.9% as of 2022).

So growth numbers,sure and I don't have any intention of trying to prove it dosent matter. But a growth headline by itself tells you almost nothing about whether ordinary people are actually better off. That's a standard worth applying to any government's economic record, not just one.

IMF World Economic Outlook (April 2026) GDP & GDP per capita rankings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy\_of\_India

GDP per capita comparison (India/China/US): https://www.storyboard18.com/trending/richest-countries-in-the-world-2026-see-indias-ranking-among-the-wealthiest-nations-ws-e-108801.htm

China vs India GDP per capita: https://statisticstimes.com/economy/china-vs-india-economy.php

Wealth inequality (top 1%/10% share): https://www.drishtiias.com/daily-updates/daily-news-analysis/india-becomes-4th-most-equal-country-globally

UNDP Human Development Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy\_of\_India

Poverty rate (23.9%, national data): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy\_of\_India

u/detectivesokka — 1 month ago
▲ 125 r/kolkata

নিজেই বুঝুন কেনো মরণোত্তর দেহ দান এ নিষেধ করছে

u/iscrappedthe_data — 2 months ago

This BJP "fact check" site against RaGa is comparing two completely different numbers and calling it a lie

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So BJP dropped this "Jhooth Ki Goonj" website to go after RaGa's Chhatron Ki Goonj tour, and people like Amit Malviya and Sudhanshu Trivedi are treating it like a smoking gun, 134 sources and all. I only dug into one claim on there, not all forty, but what I found makes me want to check the rest before trusting any of it.

RaGa said something like 6 out of 100 women in India face rape. The site puts that next to NCRB's official number, 4.3 reported rape cases per lakh women in 2024, and stamps it "Off by roughly 1,400x" in big red letters.

Looks brutal at first glance. Right?

Then you notice these are two totally different measurements. RaGa's number sounds like a general lifetime risk figure. NCRB's number only counts cases that got reported to police in one calendar year. Everyone (who studies) knows police data massively undercounts actual sexual violence, since most victims never file a report at all. India's own NFHS-5 health survey found 6.1% of married women said they'd experienced sexual violence from a husband at some point in their life, and that's from anonymous interviews, nothing to do with police records.

None of that means RaGa's original number was airtight either. It just means this "fact check" grabbed the narrowest possible technical stat, put it next to a much broader claim, and used the gap between them as proof of dishonesty. That's not really fact-checking, that's picking the comparison that makes the biggest number appear on screen.

I haven't gone through all the claims yet so I'm not saying they're all like this. But if the very first one on the list works this way, it's worth running the same check on the rest before repeating "flag bearer of lies" as settled fact.

Sources: https://data.opencity.in/dataset/crime-in-india-2024

NFHS - 5 pdf link : https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR375/FR375.pdf

u/iscrappedthe_data — 2 months ago

Mahabharat Isn't History Just Because You Say It Loudly Enough

Every year someone drops a "scientific proof" that the Mahabharat war really happened. A planetary alignment here, a "carbon dated" weapon there. And every year it falls apart the second you ask for a primary source that isn't just... the epic itself.

Here's the thing bhakts keep mixing up: cultural significance is not the same as historical fact. The Mahabharat is one of the greatest works of literature ever written. It's got politics, family drama, war, gods, a 700 verse spiritual treatise dropped in the middle of a battlefield. That's not me knocking it, that's literally the point. It's mythology doing exactly what mythology is supposed to do, encoding a civilization's values and fears and ideals into story.

But somewhere along the way "this shaped our culture" quietly turned into "this is a literal historical record." Now archaeological sites get twisted to match epic geography, astronomy software gets fed cherry picked verses to spit out "exact dates," and if you point out there's zero actual contemporaneous evidence for any of it, you get called anti national or anti Hindu.

You don't need Kurukshetra to have literally happened for the Bhagavad Gita's ideas about duty to still matter. You don't need Krishna to be a documented king for the epic's take on dharma to be worth reading and thinking about. Honestly, insisting on literal historicity cheapens the text. It turns a genuinely deep philosophical work into a trivia contest about GPS coordinates.

Myth isn't "less than" history. It's just doing a different job. Forcing one into the other only ends up embarrassing everyone involved.

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u/iscrappedthe_data — 2 months ago

Convicted r@pist Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is out of prison again

this time on a 21-day furlough. Since his conviction in 2017 for r@ping two disciples, he has been temporarily released 17 times, spending more than 400 days outside prison. In 2026 alone, he has already had 40 days of parole in January, 30 days in May, and now 21 days of furlough. His releases have repeatedly coincided with election periods, raising questions about the relationship between prison administration, political power and the influence of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief.

u/iscrappedthe_data — 2 months ago

Your money belongs to BJP’s capitalist friends, but their money is strictly off-limits to you: Bank of Baroda writes off ₹35,715 Cr in big defaults and hides the names

u/iscrappedthe_data — 2 months ago
▲ 33 r/kolkata

বিজেপির চরিত্র নামাবলী। শুনুন এবং শোনান

u/iscrappedthe_data — 2 months ago
▲ 611 r/kolkata

Media is trying to paint this as abvp-SFI clash but the reality is there is no clash students are inside their university and bjp/rss goons are trying to attack them from outside. There is nothing going on beside that. See the whole video and decide for yourself

u/iscrappedthe_data — 2 months ago