The Outsider Posted December 20, 2008 Posted December 20, 2008 There was one chu7mp Sukhram in Himachal Pradesh who by rough estimate embezzled around 20000 crore i.e four billion dollar Not to justify corruption by any means, but the guy did a lot for improving the telecommunication structure in Himachal. HP, being almost completely a mountain/hill state had terrible phone service, few and far between. Within a couple of years every nook and corner of HP(including some genuinely remote places like the Lahaul and Spiti valley) was connected by phone service and what's more there were no STD charges for calls within HP - the entire state was billed at the local rate of Rs.2 for a 3 minute pulse.
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