Floods in South India and the Government's attitude

Last month there have been severe floods in the southern part of India mainly in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Many people have been killed, some lost their homes. The losses were huge. The government did say that they were going to support the people. Everyday in the news it is said that either the Chief minister or the Prime minister is going on a survey to the flood hit areas. What they do is they are going to fly in a copter and have an aerial view of the flood hit area. Does it really help? how would someone know the suffering of a person in a place where the so called public servant is not even putting his footstep over there. The officials enjoyed their air trip and gave their routine speech saying they would allot so many thousands of crores of rupees to the affected. I bet a major fraction of this money goes into the pockets of the officials in steps. Let me try putting this in more clear words. The head of the country say the Prime minister gave 10000 units of money to the state government. The money would travel through the pockets of so many ministers until it goes to the state government and becomes around 8000. This 8000 would go the head of the state then to the finance officials of the state and it would automatically become 6000. This 6000 might go to the people but am not sure.

One more interesting thing that the government did is they asked the people to donate money. One question that raised in my mind is what are they going to do with the money. obviously giving money to the people over there would be a dumbest thing to do because what would they do with money. They cannot go shopping! So I guess the government would buy some clothes, utensils and provide them. If this is the case, why isn't the government asking the people to provide clothes, utensils etc. This could directly go to the flood affected. It would save much time too. Why are they asking us money for donation. I don't want my money to go into the pockets of any minister. I really want to help the people. I would donate whatever other than money.