Enrichment of Sathya Sai Baba and his Trust at public expense
I have been wondering repeatedly how Sathya Sai Baba was able to accumulate gold, silver, diamonds, precious stones and currency.
We know pretty well that foreign contributors were his benefactors. Many Godmen preferred Dollars and Euros because they were several times worth the Rupee in terms of purchasing power.
I used to wonder how Baba was able to fool thousands of foreign citizens, who were touted as more intelligent than Asians, Africans, and South Americans.
I always felt that deductions from common sense or from the ways of the world or circumstantial evidence, though can lead to discovery of truth, are not adequate to establish and prove it.
One more circumstantial evidence, apart from those already known to readers, which has come to light a few days back is about is super-speciality hospitals.
He and his Trust made everybody to believe that their hospital was giving free medical treatment to the poor by spending substantial amounts they received as donations from India and abroad. Consequently, the Sathya Sai Super Speciality Hospitality and the University have become the DEMOs and EXHIBITs for the collection of donations.
But nobody knew, how much Sai and his Trust milked the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Govt. of India. According to the current news reports, out of Rs. 4/- per unit of electricity consumption chargeable to the Hospital, Rs. 3.70 was being born by Govt. of A.P. The Trust was said to be paying just 30 paise per unit, in other words less than 7.5%.
Did Hospital exhibit any board anywhere on its premises or its website or the website of the Trust, that Govt. of A.P. is bearing 92.5% of the power bills of the Hospital? Was it not their duty? They were just tomtom-ing that everything was the mercy of Baba. And foreign donors were also believing.
We know pretty well that foreign contributors were his benefactors. Many Godmen preferred Dollars and Euros because they were several times worth the Rupee in terms of purchasing power.
I used to wonder how Baba was able to fool thousands of foreign citizens, who were touted as more intelligent than Asians, Africans, and South Americans.
I always felt that deductions from common sense or from the ways of the world or circumstantial evidence, though can lead to discovery of truth, are not adequate to establish and prove it.
One more circumstantial evidence, apart from those already known to readers, which has come to light a few days back is about is super-speciality hospitals.
He and his Trust made everybody to believe that their hospital was giving free medical treatment to the poor by spending substantial amounts they received as donations from India and abroad. Consequently, the Sathya Sai Super Speciality Hospitality and the University have become the DEMOs and EXHIBITs for the collection of donations.
But nobody knew, how much Sai and his Trust milked the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Govt. of India. According to the current news reports, out of Rs. 4/- per unit of electricity consumption chargeable to the Hospital, Rs. 3.70 was being born by Govt. of A.P. The Trust was said to be paying just 30 paise per unit, in other words less than 7.5%.
Did Hospital exhibit any board anywhere on its premises or its website or the website of the Trust, that Govt. of A.P. is bearing 92.5% of the power bills of the Hospital? Was it not their duty? They were just tomtom-ing that everything was the mercy of Baba. And foreign donors were also believing.
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