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| Subject: Indian Army uses 10 million rupees of defence budget on golf carts Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:22 pm | |
| At first sight the deal looked honourable: Indian army chiefs claimed they had spent 10 million rupees (£127,000) on silent reconnaissance vehicles for missions beyond enemy lines.
This week, however, it was revealed that they had bought 22 golf buggies, several of which were deployed to patrol the army’s Shivalik Golf Course in Chandigarh.
The scandal emerged in a scathing audit of the military’s recent spending by India’s civil servants after army chiefs were given powers over their expanding budgets to combat terrorism.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6703271.ece |
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